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Once the NCAA tournament reaches the Sweet 16, seeding is statistically irrelevant to which team wins.

Sheldon Jacobson, a computer-science professor at the University of Illinois, reached this conclusion after analyzing all the tourney games since the NCAA expanded the field to 64 teams.

"In the first round, the No. 1 seed has beaten the No. 16 seed 100 percent of the time." Jacobson explained. "But after the Sweet Sixteen, it is a statistical toss-up as to who wins the remaining games."

Even though this sort of makes sense, and the findings were published in the Journal of Gambling Business and Economics, we can't help but think we could take Professor Jacobson's money in an office pool.

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