And then there was one.
Going into the Sweet 16, there was one perfect bracket left on Monday night for the among the millions of entries in the ESPN bracket challenge and in the contests tracked on the NCAA鈥檚 official website. There were no perfect brackets remaining on the men’s side.
The NCAA鈥檚 official website had 235 perfect women’s brackets at the beginning of the day. That number was trimmed to seven when beat No. 2 Iowa in double overtime. There was only one left after knocked off No. 3 Ohio State.
The quest for a perfect men’s bracket ended on Sunday night when in the 44th game of the tournament 鈥� and before No. 9 seed Iowa pulled the biggest stunner of the weekend by
The day started with two perfect brackets left in the and four on the , which tracks the ESPN challenge along with six contests run by other outlets. ESPN had 26.5 million entries, and 36 million were tracked by the NCAA.
After a pair of No. 2 seeds eliminated No. 7s on Sunday 鈥� and 鈥� ESPN had two intact brackets and the NCAA had three.
When Dylan Darling’s buzzer-beating layup gave , ESPN had one perfect bracket left.
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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