Billion Dollar Bracket

Name: Billion Dollar Bracket
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Drew Bridges
ISBN: 9781952782312

Author: Drew Bridges

Narrator: Chad Loomis

Unabridged: 4 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Boutique of Quality Books Publishing

Published: 12/16/2020

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Sports, Action & Adventure

Synopsis

Many lives collide in this quest to win a billion dollars for picking all the winners in the annual National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball tournament. Some are looking for riches, others for simple survival and personal redemption.

Mathematician Sinclair Dane sponsors the contest, seeking money for a safety net for her troubled mother. She does not have a billion dollars to pay a winner. Risking her reputation and possible legal charges for fraud, she pins her hopes on the astronomical odds against anyone picking all the winners.

Math professor Lewis Cusac uses the basketball contest to teach remedial math to college students, two of whom are playing in the tournament. He enters the contest and finds himself having selected all the winners with only three games remaining. He also gets a call from the NCAA investigators for suspicion of trying to fix the outcomes of games.

Add to the mix a retired casino operator, a group of twenty-something social media wizards, and professional basketball's next megastar.

As the contest goes global, the story races to an ending that will surprise the reader.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Daniel on December 10, 2020

Ror the record, I know NOTHING about sports: Football, Baseball and, in this case Basketball.Neither do I know anything about the odds makers in Las Vegas. And fortunately for me, neither does the protagonist in this story, so the whole story is beautifully explained so that even I could understand w......more

Goodreads review by Doug on November 08, 2020

The March Madness basketball bracket is the star of this book, but it is surrounded by some well-developed, and interesting, characters. A college math professor engenders interest in formulas, probability, and more when he introduces the bracket as a teaching tool. The same professor is dealing wit......more

Goodreads review by Vanessa on March 13, 2021

When I first started reading "Billion Dollar Bracket" I wondered where the March Madness story line would take me. Although I enjoy watching basketball from time to time, I've never filled out a bracket and I don't follow the tournament. My concerns about not being able to connect with this novel, h......more

Goodreads review by Erica on January 03, 2021

Drew Bridges makes basketball and probability come to life in this engaging novel of a statistician hoping to cash in on March Madness mania and a college professor who stumbles across her gambling scheme while trying to interest his students in math. The dynamic plot kept me up past my bedtime, but......more

Goodreads review by Len on September 30, 2021

Billion Dollar Bracket is an imaginative tale with a memorable cast of characters. Bridges has mastered the details of NCAA basketball and recreational gambling and invented a contest that becomes a very believable internet sensation. The fast-paced narrative with the quick jumps from the contest cr......more