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Meet Gregg Nigl: Last man with the perfect bracket

yahoo sports staff
  • <p>Tens of millions of brackets were submitted to NCAA.com in 2019. Columbus, Ohio resident Gregg Nigl filled out four. The odds of a perfect bracket are around 1 in 9.2 quintillion, if every game was a coin flip. </p>
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    Gregg Nigl’s last perfect bracket: Fast facts

    Tens of millions of brackets were submitted to NCAA.com in 2019. Columbus, Ohio resident Gregg Nigl filled out four. The odds of a perfect bracket are around 1 in 9.2 quintillion, if every game was a coin flip.

  • <p>This isn’t Nigl’s first rodeo. He has filled out brackets every year for the past 10 to 15 years. In 2019, he did his homework after Selection Sunday and studied highlights from each team. Nigl is also an avid watcher of bracketology programs on TV. </p>
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    Gregg Nigl’s last perfect bracket: Fast facts

    This isn’t Nigl’s first rodeo. He has filled out brackets every year for the past 10 to 15 years. In 2019, he did his homework after Selection Sunday and studied highlights from each team. Nigl is also an avid watcher of bracketology programs on TV.

  • <p>Nigl is a Michigan native and a diehard Wolverines fan. </p>
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    Gregg Nigl’s last perfect bracket: Fast facts

    Nigl is a Michigan native and a diehard Wolverines fan.

  • <p>Nigl and his wife were on vacation during the Michigan vs. Florida game in the second round. He had been listening to broadcasts on satellite radio, but decided to make a pit stop to watch his Wolverines play against the Gators. </p>
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    Gregg Nigl’s last perfect bracket: Fast facts

    Nigl and his wife were on vacation during the Michigan vs. Florida game in the second round. He had been listening to broadcasts on satellite radio, but decided to make a pit stop to watch his Wolverines play against the Gators.

  • <p>Nigl is a neuropsychologist at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Columbus, Ohio. </p>
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    Gregg Nigl’s last perfect bracket: Fast facts

    Nigl is a neuropsychologist at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Columbus, Ohio.

  • <p>Gregg Nigl almost didn’t submit the soon-to-be perfect bracket. He woke up groggy and called in sick to work. He was on his way back to bed, but went on to send in the bracket, which was part of a friend’s group. </p>
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    Gregg Nigel’s last perfect bracket: Fast facts

    Gregg Nigl almost didn’t submit the soon-to-be perfect bracket. He woke up groggy and called in sick to work. He was on his way back to bed, but went on to send in the bracket, which was part of a friend’s group.

  • <p>In his personal perfect bracket, Nigl picked Gonzaga to take home the championship. </p>
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    Gregg Nigl’s last perfect bracket: Fast facts

    In his personal perfect bracket, Nigl picked Gonzaga to take home the championship.

<p>Tens of millions of brackets were submitted to NCAA.com in 2019. Columbus, Ohio resident Gregg Nigl filled out four. The odds of a perfect bracket are around 1 in 9.2 quintillion, if every game was a coin flip. </p>
<p>This isn’t Nigl’s first rodeo. He has filled out brackets every year for the past 10 to 15 years. In 2019, he did his homework after Selection Sunday and studied highlights from each team. Nigl is also an avid watcher of bracketology programs on TV. </p>
<p>Nigl is a Michigan native and a diehard Wolverines fan. </p>
<p>Nigl and his wife were on vacation during the Michigan vs. Florida game in the second round. He had been listening to broadcasts on satellite radio, but decided to make a pit stop to watch his Wolverines play against the Gators. </p>
<p>Nigl is a neuropsychologist at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Columbus, Ohio. </p>
<p>Gregg Nigl almost didn’t submit the soon-to-be perfect bracket. He woke up groggy and called in sick to work. He was on his way back to bed, but went on to send in the bracket, which was part of a friend’s group. </p>
<p>In his personal perfect bracket, Nigl picked Gonzaga to take home the championship. </p>

Find out some fast facts on bracket sensation Gregg Nigl, the man who has the last remaining perfect bracket for the 2019 NCAA Tournament. The odds of selecting the perfect bracket are extremely slim. NCAA’s Daniel Wilco estimates the chances are 1 in 9.2 quintillion, while a Duke math professor states the odds are 1 in 2.4 trillion.

In 2017, FiveThirtyEight reduced the ratio down to 1 in 2 billion. As for Nigl, a 40-year-old from Columbus, Ohio, the odds of exacting the 2019 center road so far are 1 in 281 trillion, according to a Davidson math professor.

The last bracket to ever come this close was from a Chicago teenager in 2010.