$1 million bracket busted by Golden Eagles' loss in NCAA tourney

Few people have had their NCAA tourney bracket busted in more spectacular fashion than Dwayne Johnson.

The West Virginia man was one game away from winning $1 million in Warren Buffett's annual March Madness contest. He correctly picked 29 of 30 winners in the first round of the NCAA tourney.

His one miss: He had the Marquette Golden Eagles over South Carolina. Johnson's winnings were $100,000.

Bufffett's contest for Berkshire Hathaway employees drew entries from 98,106 people out of the 367,000 who work for companies owned by the conglomerate, according to a story posted by Daniel Roberts on Yahoo Finance.

Johnson, the disappointed Golden Eagles fan, is a welder for Precision Castparts in Huntington, W. Va., Roberts reported.

Johnson told Roberts that he didn't do much research for the bracket.

“I spent 5 minutes here and there, over lunch, reading a couple articles on potential upsets, but it was kind of an afterthought,” he said. “Last year I had different methodology, I let my three sons pick whatever name sounded better. We didn’t make it very far that year.”