Tag: March Madness



Wash U’s No. 2-ranked men’s Basketball Team is hosting the 2014 NCAA Division III First and Second Round action this weekend, Friday and Saturday, March 7-8 at the WU Field House.  The Bears take on Wilmington College on Friday at 8 p.m., and with a win would play Saturday at home at 7 pm.

Cheer your fellow business school students to victory on the court!

Tim Cooney, BSBA’14, Majoring in marking and entrepreneurship

David Fatoki,BSBA’15, Majoring in finance

Michael Bregman BSBA’17

Chris Klimek , BSBA’14, Majoring in marketing and entrepreneurship

Nick Burt, BSBA’15, Majoring in finance and economics & strategy

Grant Koby, BSBA’17, Majoring in business administration

Patrick Lasowski  BSBA’17

Will Patt BSBA’14, Majoring in accounting

Ticket prices are $3 for students with an ID and $6 for adults.

Washington U. undergraduate students with an ID will be admitted free of charge, courtesy of Student Union.

The No. 5-ranked women’s basketball team will travel to Oshkosh, Wis.,
for NCAA First Round Action Friday at 4:30 p.m. against Northwestern-St. Paul.
With a win Friday, the Bears would play Saturday at 7 pm.

Go to bearsports.wustl.edu to watch live video of the women’s team in the NCAA Tournament.




March Madness is getting a really early start thanks to a challenge posed by the Oracle of Omaha. Warren Buffet is offering $1 billion to anyone who can correctly predict every single game in this year’s men’s NCAA Division I basketball tournament.

Think you have a shot? Think again says Olin prof Mark Soczek. The odds are difficult to comprehend.

“There are actually more than nine quintrillion possible outcomes for the tournament,” says Mark E. Soczek, PhD, senior lecturer in accounting and avid basketball fan.

To put it another way, Soczek says, for the every single person on the planet there are more than one billion possible outcomes.

Written out, nine quintillion looks like 9,000,000,000,000,000,000. It is one billion times more than nine billion.

– post by Neil Schoenherr

Photo Credit: Eric Wong, Flickr, CubesAndPiii




March Madness is here, but before you fill out your NCAA tournement bracket, you might want to hear what Professor Mark Soczek has to say about the odds against predicting a winner.  He doesn’t want to dampen your spirits or enthusiasm for the annual hoopsapalooza. Just remember he is an accounting prof and really good with numbers.  Watch Prof. Soczek on Ch. 5 news video.

If know how many zeros there are in a quadrillion, comment below and tell us your picks for the final four!