Last month, Unanimous AI used its revolutionary new Conversational Swarm Intelligence platform, Thinkscape™, to predict which of the first-round March Madness NCAA Tournament games presented the strongest possibilities for an upset. Unanimous then used these first round upset picks as it populated an entire bracket using its proprietary Swarm AI® technology. With the excitement of the Final Four weekend looming, now is a good time to see how those picks have performed.

With a task to identify first-round games that could produce big upsets, a group of college basketball fans used the Conversational Swarm Intelligence capabilities of Thinkscape to identify a game in each of the regional brackets as the one they felt was the most likely to produce a big underdog win.

In the West Bracket, the group picked 12th-seeded Grand Canyon to upset 5th-seeded Saint Mary’s. In the South, they took another 12 seed, this time selecting James Madison to surprise 5th-seeded Wisconsin. In the Midwest Region, these hoops fans tapped 13th-seeded Samford to pull a huge upset on an injury-plagued 4th seed, Kansas. Finally, the group selected 12th-seeded UAB to knock off 5th-seeded San Diego State, a returning 2023 Tournament finalist.

Of those four upset forecasts, two of the picks (Grand Canyon and James Madison) resulted in wins. But with a task to call out the high potential for upsets, the group’s ability to also identify Samford (who lost by four points with the help of a controversial foul call with 20 seconds remaining) and UAB (who were shooting free throws to tie the game with less than a minute left) as likely spoilers in very close games is deserving of note.

Researchers at Unanimous AI took the Thinkscape upset predictions and brought together another group of college basketball fans to set a complete March Madness bracket. As you can see from the image above, that bracket is currently in the top 82.5% of the millions of brackets submitted in ESPN’s annual challenge.

One of the highlights of the bracket picked with Swarm AI included seeing Alabama and North Carolina into the Sweet 16 in the West Regional bracket. The swarm then correctly predicted that the 11-loss, 4th-seeded Crimson Tide would send UNC home, making the Tar Heels the first number one bracket seed to be beaten in the tournament.

The bracket built by this swarm of college hoops fans also forecast two of the Final Four teams: UConn and Purdue. And as the image above shows, this group was quite bullish on the Huskies repeating as NCAA champions.