Looking at the 'perfect bracket' kid's picks, one week later

So we all remember Alex Hermann, the autistic Chicago-area teen whose family claimed that he had a perfect bracket through the first two rounds if the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. When his story first appeared in an NBC Chicago article last week, cries of shenanigans immediately sprung up, mostly in our comments section. Alex proved to be human — or a fake, depending on how one looks at it — when Syracuse lost to Butler in the Round of 16. That dropped his record to 51-1. But the dam broke. Right now, Hermann’s bracket look pretty much like yours and mine. Well, not as bad as mine. But you get the point.

Here’s Hermann’s bracket.
As you can see, he lost two more games on Friday, as Michigan State beat Northern Iowa and Duke prevailed over Purdue in the Round of 16. Things were looking shaky. Then the weekend, and disaster. Young Alex lost every game, so has no teams remaining in the final four. His four: Tennessee, Kansas State, Purdue and Kentucky, are all sinking battleships, lowering lifeboats and sending out SOS calls. Your metaphor may vary.
All this feed speculation that Hermann may have changed his bracket in the first two rounds — on CBSSports’ Bracket Manager — after the games had been completed. I prefer to think that he did amazingly well at the beginning, and then failed spectacularly toward the end; a position I;’ve been in myself more than once.
Of course, I’ve never had a perfect bracket through two rounds. Whatever the truth, Hermann’s bracket will go down in sports history along with Dennis Rodman’s hair and any Darren Daulton interview: We don’t quite know what to make of it, but it’s fantastic nonetheless.
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