US EditionKentucky postal worker and Staten Island bar stake claims to the bracket
- Jody's Club Forest in Staten Island, New York, is claimed to be the birthplace of the March Madness bracket, where a simple $10 pool grew to a $1.6 million jackpot by 2006.
- Terence Haggerty, the current owner, stated that their idea began in 1977 to boost bar business by creating a college basketball pool.
- Bob Stinson from Kentucky also claimed to have invented a bracket for the 1978 NCAA Tournament, which he circulated during his travels as a postal worker.
- Haggerty admitted that there is no proof that Jody's Club was the first organized pool, and both claims remain part of March Madness lore.
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Who invented the March Madness bracket? New York bar and Ky postal worker stake claims
FILE - In this March 23, 2017, file photo, staff members for the NCAA place the names of the teams in the Sweet 16 on a bracket in the media work room before the start of practices, at the East Regional of the NCAA college basketball tournament in New York. (Julie Jacobson / AP)Could it really be true? That of all of college basketball’s urban myths, one of New York’s five boroughs is actually the birthplace of filling out an NCAA Tournament bra…
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