Billion Dollar Bracket Challenge: Predict entire NCAA tourney bracket = $1 billion

[BleedGopher]

per the AP:

DETROIT — Correctly predicting the outcome of every game in the NCAA men's basketball tournament is no layup. There's now a $1 billion prize waiting for anyone able to pull off the feat this spring.

Quicken Loans Inc. announced Tuesday that it will team with investor Warren Buffett's Omaha, Neb.-based Berkshire Hathaway on the "Billion Dollar Bracket Challenge."

The Detroit-based mortgage lender says any qualified entrant who correctly predicts the winners of every game in the tournament will be paid in 40 annual installments of $25 million. A winner also can elect to receive an immediate $500 million lump-sum payment or share in that payment if there's more than one perfect bracket submitted.

Submissions are limited to one per household.

http://www.startribune.com/nation/241343111.html

Go Gophers!!

 

[WBLGold]

Let's all do it and donate our first instalment to a gopher practice facility.

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[bemidjigopher]

I am in and when I win I will donate 190 mill to the athletic department

 

[GophersInIowa]

If I win I will buy all of you a snuggie.

 

[mcal24]

Once I win, I'm buying everyone on here a Hawkeye flag....... And some matches

 

[SelectionSunday]

Let's all do it and donate our first instalment to a gopher practice facility.

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The U would still find a way to give most of it to the rowing or gymnastics programs.

 

[WBLGold]

The U would still find a way to give most of it to the rowing or gymnastics programs.

I sure I could spare a few million if they wanted a practice facility too.

Then I started to think. Minnesota doesn't have any billionaires who have 20 million lying around to give to the u. Not for anything else but to stop hearing and reading how much the U needs a practice facility

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[BigTenaciousD]

I sure I could spare a few million if they wanted a practice facility too.

Then I started to think. Minnesota doesn't have any billionaires who have 20 million lying around to give to the u. Not for anything else but to stop hearing and reading how much the U needs a practice facility

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There are a handful of billionaires...
http://www.bringmethenews.com/2013/...ires-rank-among-forbes-400-richest-americans/

 

[Donovan]

I am in and when I win I will donate 190 mill to the athletic department

Awesome. It will be fun explaining the meaning of the oddly named "BemidjiGopher" practice facility!