How many people on ESPN correctly picked the Final Four?

The Final Four is set for the 2019 NCAA Tournament, but how many March Madness brackets on ESPN correctly predicted the four teams?

Entering the NCAA Tournament every year, millions upon millions of college basketball fans fill out their brackets in hopes of defying the odds and filling out the perfect one. Why we love March Madness is the upsets, the excitement and the volatility of it all, but it also makes it next to impossible to fill out a perfect bracket. And this year’s Final Four stands as proof of that.

On Saturday and Sunday, the Texas Tech Red Raiders, Virginia Cavaliers, Auburn Tigers and Michigan State Spartans all punched their tickets to the Final Four as the No. 3, 1, 5 and 2 seeds in their regions, respectively. Considering that there was no George Mason or Loyola-Chicago winning a region in March Madness this year, you might be led to believe that quite a few people correctly predicted these four teams making it.

That, however, would be an incorrect assumption.

According to ESPN, only 0.04 percent of the 17.2 million brackets that were filled out for their Tournament Challenge correctly had those four teams advancing to the Final Four. That translates to under 8,000 total brackets that had Texas Tech, Virginia, Auburn and Michigan State heading to Minneapolis.

And ESPN isn’t an anomaly in that low number of correct predictions of those four teams either. CBS Sports is actually reporting that a lower percentage of the brackets filled out on their site, 0.02 percent to be exact, correctly predicted the last four teams remaining in the 2019 NCAA Tournament.

Considering that the No. 1 overall seed, the Duke Blue Devils, were knocked out and that only a single 1-seed, Virginia, made it to the Final Four, it stands to reason why there were so few correct predictions once again this year, despite a Cinderella not crashing the party in Minneapolis.

It’s also a reminder that just keeping your bracket from being completely busted, as opposed to picking every game perfectly, is a much more achievable feat.