8th grader has the only remaining perfect NCAA women's basketball bracket

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|8th grader has the only remaining perfect NCAA women's basketball bracket]

14-year-old Otto Schellhammer said the bracket picks were "all luck."

By Gregory Romero, Nic Uff, Henderson Hewes, and Mason Leib via GMA
March 27, 2026, 2:55 PM

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8th grader is only person with perfect March Madness bracket so far14-year-old Otto Schellhammer from Pittsburgh, who says it “was all luck,” has managed to pick all of the correct winners so far in the women’s NCAA tournament.
ABC News

Every year, millions of Americans fill out March Madness brackets for the annual men's and women's college basketball tournaments, hoping to fulfill their unrealized dreams of selecting a perfect bracket. This year, one Pennsylvania 8th grader is over halfway to achieving that goal.

Fourteen-year-old Otto Schellhammer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has a perfect women's bracket through two full rounds of play, with 16 teams remaining of the more than 60 that started the tournament.


Otto Schellhamer speaks with Good Morning America.
ABC News

"The first round was mainly just pick the higher seed, and then the second round, it was all random," Otto told "Good Morning America" in an interview that aired Friday morning.

He added, "I just want everybody to know, this was all luck."

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