NEW YORK, NY - MARCH 16: (L-R) Gorgui Dieng #10, Wayne Blackshear #20, Russ Smith #2, Luke Hancock (holding trophy) #11, Peyton Siva #3 and Michael Baffour #32 of the Louisville Cardinals celebrate after they won 78-61 in overtime against the Syracuse Orange during the final of the Big East Men's Basketball Tournament at Madison Square Garden on March 16, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)Louisville celebrates its Big East Tournament championship. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)
(CBS) If you know who New York Times blogger and statistician Nate Silver is, you know how shockingly accurate his predictions can be.
Using mathematics, Silver, who operates the Times’ FiveThirtyEight blog, forecasted how November’s presidential election would shake down almost perfectly.
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By his calculations, Silver gives Louisville a 22.7% chance of winning the NCAA Tournament – the highest of any of the 68 teams. He gives Indiana a 19.6% chance, Florida a 12.7% chance and Kansas a 7.5% chance.
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