Oddly, the 10 champions in that period did not include the 2006 George Mason and 2011 Virginia Commonwealth squads, which reached the Final Four as at-large entrants in the N.C.A.A. tournament.
With a bumper crop of underwhelming at-large entrants, the defining quality of the bracket selected on Sunday was the weakness of the bubble teams that earned bids, including Iona, California and North Carolina State.
He came to the fantasy e-sports business through an interest in more traditional fantasy leagues, but saw the market was too crowded with large entrants like DraftKings and FanDuel.
The Illini, an at-large entrant from the Big Ten, dispatched No. 13 Pennsylvania, 68-58.
That pace is not unfamiliar to No. 4 Illinois, an at-large entrant from the Big Ten.
H.P. is betting that customers and developers will welcome a large entrant in the tablet market, especially one with a tradition of working with business customers, unlike Apple.
As the largest entrant in the cash advance business and a founding member a major industry trade group, AEA is actively working with politicians to try to help shape legislation (rather than passively waiting to see what happens).
Competitor-wise, the largest entrant in the nascent messaging gaming space is Zynga who have launched a Words With Friends iMessage extension and Wiggins expects them to follow up with multiple titles early in 2017.
While PayPal blazed a trail for online payments when it first launched in 1998, today the company faces a lot of competition, from traditional payment providers like banks and credit companies through to other large new entrants like Apple and newer startups like Stripe.
The key questions for any startup are: What is your competitive advantage and how do you defend against a large late entrant?
