Basketball is always exciting, but nothing compares to March Madness. Sixty-four teams go head-to-head to reach every basketball player’s dream – holding the NCAA championship trophy while the confetti falls down the crowd cheers –  a moment that has to be indescribable.

“It’s Christmas for basketball,” sophomore Jonathan Davis said.

However, instead of presents under the tree, Warren Buffet, who ranks fourth on Forbes Magazine’s list of top ten billionaires with an estimated net worth of 53 billion,  decided to make the process much more interesting by offering a one billion dollar prize to anyone who correctly picks the winner of all 63 games in the NCAA mens college basketball tournament.

Many Argyle students participate in this popular activity by creating a bracket in ESPN’s Tournament Challenge. Basketball fans go online to enter the sixty-four teams into a bracket that predicts which teams will play, which will win, and which will advance to the Sweet Sixteen, Elite Eight, the Final Four and finally which team will win it all in the championship game.

The chances of winning according to ESPN news are 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 — that’s 9 quintillion. But despite the odds, students are fantasizing about how they would they spend their money.

“I would first invest in stocks, use it to pay for college, later buy a car, a house, and save for the future,” junior Austin Bergstrom said.

If you wish you had one billion dollars, go to ESPN.com and search for the Tournament Challenge.