Student versus Teacher: March Madness
Jarod Norton, sophomore, v. Scott Ellis, history teacher
1.What was the final score of the championship game for this year’s March Madness?
Ellis: I know it was a five point game… 65-60?
Norton: 71-68 or something like that.
Answer: 71-65.
Number one seeded North Carolina scored 71 points to win its sixth championship, while both contestants are yet to score.
Ellis: 0
Norton: 0
2.What school has won the most tournaments? And how many?
Ellis: UCLA, 11.
Norton: UCLA, I’ll go with 11 as well.
Answer: UCLA, 11.
Ellis was quick to answer this one, maybe his UCLA teddy bear is giving him good luck.
Ellis: 1
Norton: 1
3. Only one school has won the Men and Women’s tournament in the same year twice, what school was it?
Ellis: I’ll go with UCONN.
Norton: It was UCONN.
Answer: UCONN.
Ellis: 2
Norton: 2
4. Were there any perfect brackets this year?
Ellis: No, there were not.
Norton: No! South Carolina messed everyone up!
Answer: No.
Norton must know the pain South Carolina caused everyone.
Ellis: 3
Norton: 3
5. What is the lowest seeded school to ever win a tournament?
Ellis: Wow, um I’ll guess eight and NC State.
Norton: Didn’t Villanova win at number eight?
Answer: Villanova, eight.
Ellis: 3
Norton: 4
6. How many teams competed in the very first NCAA tournament?
Ellis: The very first one… four.
Norton: They just started with the Elite Eight.
Answer: Eight.
Ellis: 3
Norton: 5
7. Name a school who made their first Final Four appearance this year.
Ellis: Oh there was a couple, South Carolina and Gonzaga
Norton: It was Gonzaga right?
Answer: South Carolina or Gonzaga.
Ellis knows his basketball, he will receive an extra point for getting both teams.
Ellis: 5
Norton: 6
8. How many brackets are filled out each year?
Ellis: Um, five million.
Norton: Let’s go with 150 million.
Answer: 70 million.
That must be close to how many goals Norton scores in water polo.
Ellis: 5
Norton: 6
9. How many times has a 16 seed beat a number one seed?
Ellis: Zero.
Norton: Well in the men’s tournament, zero.
Answer: Zero.
Comebacks are always possible!
Ellis: 6
Norton: 7
10. What are the odds of filling out a perfect bracket?
Ellis: Poor.
Norton: Let’s go with one in a trillion.
Answer: 1 in 9 quintillion.
Good answer from Ellis, but not quite enough to pull him ahead.
Ellis: 6
Norton: 7
Norton Wins!
