8th-grader stands alone with last perfect women's NCAA basketball bracket

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Perfection is hard to come by – as anyone who has ever filled out a bracket for the NCAA Men’s and Women’s Tournament has come to realize during March Madness season.

But one eighth grader from Pennsylvania is currently defying the odds.

Otto Schellhammer, who is only 14, has the last remaining perfect bracket for the women’s tournament. Stunningly, he’s admitted he knows nothing about basketball.

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Otto Schellhammer, an eighth-grader who has the only perfect bracket after the opening weekend of the men’s and women’s NCAA college basketball tournaments, poses in his backyard in Plum Borough, Pennsylvania, Wednesday, March 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

"I know people say this a lot about March Madness," Schellhammer told The Associated Press, "but it was 100% luck. I know basically nothing about any type of basketball.

"I play with my friends," he added, "but I don't really watch it."

Schellhammer has correctly picked the first 48 games in the women’s tournament on ESPN’s Tournament Challenge contest. He is just 15 correct picks away from perfection.

Though there may be perfect brackets in smaller pools across the country, he has the lone one in which the NCAA has tracked. The organization has tracked seven of the largest contests for years, according to Mike Benzie, the senior director of content for NCAA Digital.

The NCAA has tracked 36 million men’s entries and 5.2 million on the women’s side, making Schellhammer one in 41.2 million.

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