Autistic Teen Picks First Two NCAA Rounds Perfectly

NBC11 ^ | Tue, Mar 23, 2010 | DICK JOHNSON and ANDREW GREINER

[mlocher]

The odds of a perfect wire to wire bracket? As high as 1 in 1,000,000,000,000.

Pick the winners and win the national debt! That would be the Obama/Dem pool.

[Frantzie]

He and his brother could get mega rich handicapping. I really could care less about TV sprts because I dumped TV. How he picked that major upset game is amazing plus all the other games.

[Mr. Mojo]

And then there's this: Alex picked Purdue to win the whole thing. Probably not going to happen.

Probably not, but this kid has already done the miraculous, and Purdue is a #4 seed (which isn't that low), so it could happen.

I'd like to see his entire bracket.

[max americana]

he can pick my lotto tickets too..

[changeitback440]

he should be picking stocks

[hole_n_one]

[Mr. Mojo]

Thanks. No major upsets the rest of the way except maybe No. Iowa over Mich. St. and Purdue over Kentucky. ...and neither of those compare to the magnitude of his earlier upset picks.

[cherry]

there is a wide range of intellect with autistic people....some are near geniuses and others can be rather limited.

[Positive]

I pick Syracuse,,,,yes Syracuse...definitely Syracuse...

[eyedigress]

Jeez! That is unfathomable.

[A message]

And then there's this: Alex picked Purdue to win the whole thing. Probably not going to happen.

If Purdue beats Duke I'm wagering some money.

[Isabel C.]

I really could care less about TV sprts because I dumped TV.

I think you meant to say that you couldn't care less, meaning that you don't care at all. Saying that you could care less is ambiguous as it doesn't indicate whether you actually do care less, but only that there's a possibility of you caring less.

[nickcarraway]

I think he could care less, or he wouldn’t have posted. But he couldn’t care much more less...

[Junior_G]

Unlike CBSSports' Bracket Challenge, which ranks players nationally and locks entries once the tournament begins, Bracket Challenge does allow changes after play starts. The Hermanns insist, however, that they filled out their brackets as a family before the tournament started, and haven't touched the picks since.

That sliver of doubt is all it takes to ruin a good story for me. Too bad they couldn't have used the tamper-proof bracket.

[Frantzie]

Thank you. I attended pubic schools.

[Jack Hammer]

Must be in touch with the aliens from Alpha Eridani 3.

[Mr. Mojo]

Must’ve missed that tidbit when I first skimmed it. I’d say there’s more than a sliver of doubt to the veracity of this story.

[Junior_G]

Balloon Boy Bracket?

[hole_n_one]

The very first game played after his picks are made public he picked wrong.

N. Iowa over Kansas?

Yeah, right....

.....and I had Buster Douglas knocking out Tyson.