May the odds be forever in your favor.

They won’t be, but we can at least wish you well.

The odds of completing a perfect NCAA tournament are so far-fetched, it is no wonder it is called March Madness.

As explained to CNN by Tim Chartier – visiting professor at the US National Museum of Mathematics – and Joseph R. Morton, a professor of mathematics and computer science at Davidson College, the odds are nine quintillion to one. That’s a nine followed by 18 zeroes.

How difficult is it to complete a perfect bracket?

“I’m going to pick one second in 292 billion years, and your job is to tell me which second I pick,” Chartier said as an example.

According to NCAA.com, a group of researchers at the University of Hawaii estimated that there are 7.5 quintillion grains of sand on Earth. If you had one chance to pick one of the 7.5 quintillion grains of sand on the entire planet, your odds of getting it correct would be 23 percent better than picking a perfect bracket by coin flip.

For those needing a visual of such a number, Chartier said the height of nine quintillion dollar bills stacked on one another would be the distance of going from Earth to Pluto more than 60 times.

“So you have better odds of winning the Powerball with two consecutive tickets than getting a perfect bracket,” Chartier said. “You’ve better odds that a family of four will all get hit by lightning in their lifetime than picking a perfect bracket.

“There is a stat out there that there’s a one in 10,000 chance that you get injured by a toilet. So there are better odds that that same family of four all get injured by the toilet than picking a perfect bracket.”

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Mark Heim is a sports reporter for The Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Mark_Heim.