$1 billion prize for perfect bracket

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    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.

    You read that right. That's billion. With a "B."

    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.

    The odds of achieving such a feat? Well, there are 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 -- that's 9 quintillion (with a "Q") -- ways to fill out a bracket, and entries will be limited to one per household.

    Read more http://espn.go.com/mens-college-bas.../1-billion-offered-perfect-tournament-bracket
     

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