Let the March Madness Begin!

Have you filled out your brackets? You better hurry because everyone else has.

The average person has already filled out two, in fact, according to the American Gaming Association, which estimates that more than 70 million NCAA college basketball brackets will be completed this year. And just in time: March Madness begins on Thursday.

To put that in perspective, the association says that bracketology number will likely surpass the number of votes that Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump or any other single presidential candidate get in the November election.

In 2012, nearly 66 million Americans voted for President Obama, while some 61 million voted for Mitt Romney. No presidential candidate has ever received 70 million votes. (Obama came closest when he received 69 million votes in 2008.)

Every year, Obama takes time out from running the country to fill out his bracket. In 2015, he didn’t do very well, which was pointed out to him by an 11-year-old girl named Emilia, from North Carolina. According to the White House, she wrote him a letter saying, “You are a great president, just not the best bracket picker.”

Obama finished in the 39.5 percentile in ESPN Men’s Tournament Challenge with a rank of 6,996,358. The president’s bracket was busted during the Final Four after Wisconsin knocked off Kentucky, the team he predicted to win it all. Obama has not correctly picked a national champion since selecting UNC during his first year in office in 2009.

For this year’s March Madness selection, Obama ran down his picks with ESPN college basketball analyst Andy Katz at the White House on Wednesday morning. The president has Kansas, Texas A&M, Michigan State, and UNC headed to the Final Four. He thinks Kansas will emerge victorious over UNC in the championship.

For the women’s tournament, Obama picked UConn to win it all — a safe bet, as the team has won three straight championships. He’s going with Florida State, South Carolina, and Notre Dame to round out the Final Four.

You can snark on him and his picks, but the odds of picking a perfect NCAA tournament bracket are mind-boggling. According to Duke University math professor Jonathan Mattingly, who calculated it last year, the odds of picking all 32 games correctly are actually one in 2.4 trillion.

That’s the fun of it. So, expect everyone to be busy checking scores and watching games — while still trying to work, of course, as the madness gets fully underway. According to calculations in 2014 by global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc., companies stand to lose at least $1.2 billion for every unproductive work hour during the first week of the tournament.

As for presidential candidates, it seems they are too busy to fill out a bracket. The only bracket Hillary Clinton’s talking about is her tax bracket. And we all know Donald Trump’s pick for the college that will win it all: Trump University!