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Patrick Stevens covers Syracuse and ACC football, basketball and lacrosse for syracuse.com. (Mike Greenlar | mgreenlar@syracuse.com)

Out of the 121 bracketologists who picked the 2014 NCAA tournament field, only one got all 68 teams correct, according to the Bracket Matrix.

That bracketologist was Patrick Stevens of our sister site Syracuse.com.

Stevens, the bracket guru for USA Today before being hired by syracuse.com last summer, correctly predicted all 68 teams. It's the second consecutive year -- and third time in five seasons -- he's gone 68-for-68. He has missed three teams total over the last five years (2011 UAB, 2011 Southern California and 2012 Iona).

And if that doesn't impress you, consider this: He seeded 67 of the 68 teams within one line. The exception was Connecticut, which he moved up to a 5 when VCU lost and wound up being a 7.

In the 68-team era, the most teams seeded within one line on the Bracket Matrix previously was 65.

Stevens also had 35 of 68 teams seeded correctly.

One of the keys to the perfect bracket was Stevens' selection of N.C. State. Only three of the 121 bracketologists had the Wolfpack making the tournament.

Here are some other keys, from Stevens' Twitter feed:

One additional note: Stevens jumped from approximately 8,000 followers on Twitter to more than 14,100 last night, partly thanks to a tweet from ESPN's Scott Van Pelt. Stevens said it took him five years to reach 8,000.