Forty games into the fans hoping to fill out a perfect bracket were a respectable 2 for 26,587,885.
No. 11 seed Texas all but wiped out the remaining unblemished entries in the annual March Madness contests with its on Saturday night.
After the win by the Longhorns, who started in the First Four, there were 22 perfect entries in and 27 in the
The last three games on Saturday were won by higher-seeded teams, but No. 4 seed Nebraska was hardly a sure thing, having never won an NCAA Tournament game before this week. 74-72, and once ESPN had two perfect brackets left.
On the NCAA’s official site, there were four.
Favored teams went 16-0 on Friday, and they started 4-0 on Saturday, leaving more than 100 brackets intact. No. 1 seed Duke and won 81-58. No. 1 Michigan No. 2 seed Houston No. 3 Michigan State
Texas sent the remaining perfect brackets down to the double digits with its takedown of the Zags.
There was also a sharp drop-off in perfect brackets in the Saturday. The day started with 675,000 in the ESPN contest. After the conclusion of the first round,
Just three lower seeds won, with , and No. 9 seed Many more brackets would have been in a shambles had 15th-seeded Fairleigh Dickinson, which was in a one-possession game with No. 2 seed Iowa midway through the fourth quarter, been able to pull an upset.
The odds of going 63-0 in a bracket contest are somewhere between one in 9.2 quintillion (for totally random guesses) or one in 120 billion (semi-educated ones).
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