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By Meena Kar

Chicago, March 26, (THAINDIAN NEWS) There have been many instances where people with disability have performed activities which has left people astounded. This time the surprise comes from a 17 year old autistic boy. Alex Hermann of Chicago, Illinois province has scored perfectly while predicting the NCAA tournament bracket in a website. In an online competition, Alex Hermann had predicted all the game results of the first and second round perfectly. According to Alex Hermann, his love for mathematics, statistics and for the game has led to such a perfect score. He also mentioned that he watches basketball games on television regularly.

Alex Hermann’s perfect prediction makes him one in a million persons who had predicted correctly and according to some it is easy to win two lotteries than get so many predictions correct. ESPN has reportedly said that around 4.8 million people took the game of predicting the bracket but none could get all the games correctly. According to reports, the leading predictors of ESPN have till now missed four games. However, what makes all the difference is that Alex Hermann entered the bracket entries before the NCAA tournament began and he has not changed any of the entries afterward, according to his mother. He has marked team Purdue as the final winner of the NCAA Tournament. People are now keeping a watch for the final game to find out if he has been able to get that right too.

This year the whole NCAA tournament has been filled with surprises. While some top seeded teams could not make it to the brackets, there were many other teams who had come as humble team but proved the prediction wrong with their win.