Here's how many perfect brackets remained after each game: Entering Friday, there were 192 perfect brackets across the major games, Men's Bracket Challenge Game, ESPN, CBS and Yahoo. It took 28 games to eliminate the last perfect bracket. 6 LSU, the final perfect bracket of the 2022 basketball tournament - created by ESPN user 'Bekins24' - was busted. There will be no perfect men's bracket this year. We'll continue perfection watch on Sunday with eight games in the second round: The drop from more than one million to the last three comes after wins from double-digit seeds No. The three do have the same picks in the next two games, going with No. We'll have either two or one final bracket after that, as two picked Iowa and one went with Creighton. There are eight games set for Sunday, beginning with No. That means, out of the more than one million brackets we've been tracking in the major online games (Women's Bracket Challenge Game, ESPN and CBS), only three are 32 for 32. You can check out all future picks by clicking on each bracket: Through 32 games and the first round, there are only three flawless brackets. Our perfect bracket watch for the women's tournament will go into the second round. Apply a little bracket strategy, like not picking every 16 over a 1, and the odds improve to roughly 1 in 120.2 billion. The odds of picking a perfect bracket are about 1 in 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 (that’s if you randomly pick each game). 2 Tennessee 99-94 in overtime of the second game in the Sweet 16. Nigl’s bracket busted in game 50, when No. The broke the previous record of 39 games, set in 2017. The longest an NCAA men’s March Madness bracket ever stayed verifiably perfect came in 2019 when Gregg Nigl’s “center road” bracket was perfect through the first 49 games of the tournament. Prior to 2016, we've relied on those games' reports as well as online archives to get the best information available. We've followed the quest for a perfect bracket by tracking 25+ million of them in the major men's and women's online games, including the Bracket Challenge on, ESPN and CBS since 2016 using public leaderboards and direct reporting. The last perfect women’s NCAA bracket was named 'Nathan B!!!' and it busted after 35 correct picks in a row when No. There were three perfect brackets left after the first round (nice work!).

Pickers in the women’s March Madness field did better.That’s when this bracket created by ESPN user 'Bekins24' - busted. The last verifiably perfect men’s NCAA bracket in 2022 busted on the first Friday of the tournament when No.Here’s what happened in 2022’s quest for perfection in March Madness:

The shocking win also means that the last hopes of anyone completing the practically impossible task of predicting a perfect bracket has been eliminated altogether, the NCAA noted.Īny hopes of completing a perfect bracket had already been dented on Thursday following Princeton’s 59-55 improbable win over Arizona and the Paladins’ stunning 68-67 victory against Virginia.The quest for a perfect March Madness bracket in 2022 ended before the Sweet 16 in both the men’s and women’s tournaments. Only 2.36% of completed Men’s Bracket Challenge Game entries predicted an FDU win over Purdue, the second-lowest percentage out of every team in the field, according to the NCAA. “We just have faith in what we do and our guys are so tough and competitive,” FDU’s head coach Tobin Anderson told the TNT broadcast. 1 seed Purdue in historic March Madness upset Fairleigh Dickinson forward Sean Moore (11) celebrates beating Purdue 63-58 after a first-round college basketball game in the NCAA Tournament Friday, March 17, 2023, in Columbus, Ohio.

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