What’s the right way? “Flip it on its head, fill out the bracket from the inside out,” said University of Illinois computer science professor Sheldon Jacobson. He used AI and past tournament ...

The top team on the bracket line served as heads and the bottom team was tails. One flip per game, no do-overs regardless of how ridiculous this gets. We flip them and we don’t judge.

To be fair, that's with knowing nothing about basketball or doing a coin flip for every matchup. If you know basketball and some things about the teams, the odds of a perfect bracket increase all ...