I went onto ESPN.com this morning to take a look at the NCAA Tournament Challenge leaderboard, just to see what even the most accurate brackets looked like. This one was tied for the lead, getting nearly everything right outside of the bottom part of the South region.

Everyone’s bracket is a dumpster fire in one way or another, and even the person who put together the ESPN-leading one may be struggling this year in his or her office pool. Why? Because the one that’s in the lead – the bracket linked above – was one of 10 that the person filled out. Think he or she entered their friend’s money pool with that? Doubt it.

(Let’s give some love for this guy though. Seriously.)

It wasn’t easy picking this year’s Final Four. In fact, according to Yahoo!, of the millions of brackets filled out on their site, just 191 of them correctly predicted this Final Four.

That’ll happen when your remaining teams include an underrated two seed, a seven seed from an underappreciated conference and an eight seed that once looked like it would never reach its potential.

Each of these four teams have gone very different paths. Some, like Florida, have consistently won without much trouble. Others, like Kentucky, have been in love with late-game heroics. But outside of the game results, what have these teams done so well to get them to where they’re at?