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Cinderella Sweet 16's

• The probability of all the top four seeds making it into the sweet 16 is very small, however, knowing which to pick is very hard.

• Prob. of the top 4 seeds making the final four is $.504 \times .260 \times .404 \times .480 = 2.54\%$ .

• Here are some high seeds with chances at making the sweet 16.

  #6  Indiana           35.8%
  #6  West Virginia     31.3%
  #7  Georgetown        26.3%
  #8  Arkansas          30.0%
  #11 George Mason      12.8%
  #12 Texas A\&M        17.5%
  #14 Xavier            22.3%
  

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