The ultimate March Madness pool is run by Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett. Over the years, Buffett has run office pools and public pools with often insane jackpots. The most famous is the Warren Buffett Billion Dollar Bracket Challenge.
Below, we’ll have information on all of the best March Madness bracket contests for 2025. That includes info on whether or not Buffett’s Bracket Challenge is happening this year.
Is the Warren Buffett Billion Dollar Bracket Challenge happening this year?
Bracket challenges are starting to roll out with the NCAA Tournament about to start. So, is the famed Warren Buffett Billion Dollar Bracket Challenge happening this year?
For now, the answer is uncertain as Buffett has not yet announced if his contest is happening in 2025.
In recent years, Buffett has limited his bracket challenge to his employees at Berkshire Hathaway.
Due to it being pretty much mathematically impossible to fill out a perfect bracket, Buffett has made winning prize money in his pool a little more attainable.
Berkshire Hathaway has said it would award $100,000 to an employee who picked the most games correctly before an incorrect pick. If an employee picked every first round game correctly, they would win $1 million.
Buffett has only gone public with his bracket challenge once. That came in 2014, and — you guessed it — no one emerged with a perfect bracket.
Free March Madness bracket contests
While it’s unlikely that you’ll be able to enter Buffett’s bracket challenge this year, there are still plenty of free March Madness bracket contests available to enter.
March Madness betting sites have a ton of sportsbook promos and sign-up bonuses this time of year, so be sure and check all of those out ahead of the start of the NCAA Tournament.
What are the odds of a perfect bracket?
If you think winning the Powerball jackpot is impossible, wait until you see the odds of filling out a perfect bracket.
Unfortunately, the odds of you filling out an error-free March Madness bracket are one in 9.2 quintillion.
To give you an idea of just how impossible that is, winning Powerball is "only" 1 in 292.2 million.
