There’s no exact science behind crafting the perfect March Madness bracket, but a Charlotte area middle school student got pretty close. Sasha Anderson, who attends Mountain Island Lake Academy in northwest Charlotte, correctly predicted each Final Four team in this year’s NCAA tournament.
The 7th-grader’s pick crushed millions of other brackets across the nation, in part from a big assist from the University of South Carolina, which was not expected to make it nearly this far. (That was not a random selection, by the way. She picked the team for a very special reason.)
Sasha’s bracket was part of a competition designed by her math teacher, Denzelle Lawson, who uses the tournament each year as an opportunity to engage his students to learn about colleges across the country in a fun way.