FACTS & figures
MARCH MADNESS
BRACKETOLOGy 1
$7 billion is the estimated
amount Americans wager in
brackets each year.

2 #1 seeds have won
every time in the
first round for the
past 16 years.

3 4
Roughly 1 in 10 Americans
fill out a March Madness
bracket each year.

10 75 minutes is the
average time fans
spend filling out
their brackets.

9 181 million
viewers tune in
across TV, online
and mobile
devices. 8
40 percent of fans are more
focused on their brackets at work
than e-mail.

7 1 in 7 fans have
called in sick
to watch the
tournament. The odds of picking
a perfect bracket is
9,223,372,036,854,775,808 to 1.

5 11
#8 seed is the lowest seed
to ever win the National
Championship. 12
6 2x more money is bet on
March Madness than the
Super Bowl.

13 14
During a 20-second game timeout,
The odds of picking a perfect
An estimated $175 million betted
The term “March Madness” was
an average of 230,000 March
bracket if you always choose the
will be lost during the first two
first used to describe high school
Madness Facebook messages and
higher seed is 35,360,000,000
days of the tournament.

basketball. 59,000 tweets are sent.

to 1.

Sources: www.forbes.com • www.jbertho.com • Genesis Media • www.sportsillustrated.com • www.chiff.com • Dedicated Media • www.cnn.com • www.heavy.com
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