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Nate Cunningham

Average Points Scored in March Madness Finals: How to Figure Out Your Tiebreaker Score

The 2025 NCAA Men's Basketball national championship trophy displayed at the Corpus Christi Caller-Times newsroom on Wednesday, March 5, 2025. | John Oliva/Caller-Times / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

Winning a bracket pool isn’t an easy thing to do. It requires a massive amount of luck on top of plenty of basketball know-how and an eye for seeing beyond the statistics. After all, they call it March Madness for a reason: Anything can happen.

Considering the odds of picking a perfect bracket are basically impossible (1 in 9.2 quintillion), most bracket groups see a winner who successfully picks the correct winner in about 50 games. 

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