VIDEO: Autistic Teen, Alex Hermann Has Perfect NCAA Bracket
March 25th, 2010 - 3:48 am ICT by Angela Kaye MasonMar 24 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Alex Hermann, an autistic teen from Chicago had made the news, not only in his city, but all over the world. He has done something for which the odds are one in 13,460,000. No he didn’t win the lottery (yet) the seventeen year old has a perfect NCAA March Madness bracket. Video on this story can be seen embedded below.
Yes, A 17 year old kid with autism logged into the CBSsports.com website and entered his choices into the CBSsports.com’s bracket challenge. It is one of three games that is offered on the site, but it the only one for which there is no prize for winning. NBC Chicago has said that the very popular sports site cannot confirm the report because the site does not track the entries of it’s Bracket Manager program.
Alex guessed before each game that Northern Iowa would beat the top ranking Kansas in a second round game, that St. Mary’s would beat the Villanova of Big East, and Cornell, the Ivy League upstart would beat Wisconsin. So how did he do the almost impossible? “I’m good at math,” Hermann, a student at Glenbrook South High School, said. “I’m kind of good at math and at stats I see on TV during the game.”
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