The Golden Eagles' overtime win against the Buckeyes — the No. On the same day, seed North Texas and seed Oregon State beat 4-seed Purdue and 5-seed Tennessee, respectively, further ruining would-be perfection. By the end of play on Friday, only perfect brackets remained out of roughly 20 million. By the time play concluded Saturday, zero perfect brackets existed.
The win by seed Ohio over 4-seed Virginia was a significant blow to the remaining perfect brackets, reducing the field by more than half eight to three. After Maryland beat UConn, none remained. So we don't even get to count the win by seed Abilene Christian over 3-seed Texas. Whether that upset would have been part of the remaining three brackets, we'll never know. Then Gregg Nigl, of Columbus, shattered that record with his briefly-famous " center road " NCAA tournament bracket in the Capital One NCAA March Madness Bracket Challenge , which correctly predicted the first 49 games of the tournament before busting in game 50, when 3-seed Purdue beat 2-seed Tennessee in overtime of the second game in the Sweet Nigl, a neuropsychologist from Columbus, Ohio, became the first verified bracket ever to pick through to the Sweet 16 correctly.
With more than three decades of online and paper brackets to sift through the current format has existed since and with somewhere between an estimated 60 million to million brackets filled out every year, it's very possible that someone, somewhere has done better. Determining an official record is made even more difficult by the fact that online games only recently have begun comprehensive record-keeping.
We've closely tracked about to million online brackets per year at a half dozen major games since using public leaderboards in combination with direct reporting and information gathering with those games. Prior to , we've relied on those games' reports as well as online archives to get the best information available. Until this year, we could find no verified brackets that have been perfect into the Sweet 16 at all. It had been entered in an online game where picks could be altered between rounds according to a Deadspin report at the time.
Of the millions of brackets we tracked, 25 were perfect through the first 28 games of the tournament, but UMBC's win in game No. We saw an incredible 39 games picked to start the tournament, a number that was the highest recorded until T he longest anyone went this year was 25 games.
With Stephen F. There are 16 games set for Saturday — how many brackets will remain? There are a little more than 1, perfect brackets left after the third double-digit upset of the day took down a large bunch of brackets. In the latest shocker, No. The Mean Green's upset follows earlier wins by No.
They were in three prior trips. We're only halfway through Friday's 16 games, but most brackets are busted. There's only around 20, brackets still perfect.
Oral Roberts' upset of Ohio State — only the ninth win by a No. After the over-2 upset, only 0. Click or tap here to check out how your BCG bracket is doing. The perfect bracket counter was at Only 4. In fact, almost as many players had Ohio State winning the national championship 3. The higher-seeded teams are off to a start Friday, but there's still sizable wreckage when it comes to perfect brackets. Despite No. The Florida-Virginia Tech game took a big bite out of perfect brackets for a couple of reasons.
Not only was it the first game, but it was a tough-to-pick No. Gonzaga, the No. In our Bracket Challenge Game, That's well ahead of the second-most popular pick of Illinois In , Duke lead the field among BCG users at Eventual champion Virginia was the pick in 5. Going back to , Kentucky in holds the top mark by percentage. The Wildcats, who like Gonzaga this year entered the tournament undefeated, were the title pick on The first game of the day needed more than 40 minutes, as Nahiem Alleyne's 3-pointer pushed the game to OT.
Despite the clutch shot, No. A Tre Mann 3-pointer inside 30 seconds helped the Gators secure the win. Alleyne's 28 points led all scorers, but the Gators shot The No. Two years ago, Oregon topped the most-picked list. The Ducks, seeded No. Welcome to the Madness. It's time to print your bracket , celebrate Cinderella, catch all the buzzer-beaters — and track perfect brackets. Friday is the start of the first round of the NCAA tournament, with 16 games on the schedule taking us from noon to midnight.
Along with watching for all the shocking moments, we'll be monitoring how many perfect brackets remain. The games have started and brackets are locked. Click or tap here to check out your brackets in the Bracket Challenge Game. Get your printable bracket here. Along with keeping track of all the perfect brackets out there for the NCAA tournament, we're also paying attention to how some celebrity brackets are performing.
The most popular pick that year was Florida, taken on Here's the other most popular picks each season since then:. You can read the entire article this information is pulled from here. Millions of people fill out March Madness brackets, hoping each pick turns out right. But chances are that won't happen.
These numbers are way too large to fully wrap your head around, but here are a handful of other statistics for reference, compared to 9. Click or tap here for a complete breakdown of the odds your bracket makes history. Below is the full schedule for the NCAA tournament, broken down by round and including days and start times:. The bracket reveal will be announced at 6 p.
ET on CBS. Click or tap here for more March Madness schedule information. We believe the record is 49, when Greg Nigl of Columbus, Ohio, went for to start the tournament.
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