There are officially no perfect brackets remaining anywhere in the world, as every website’s complete online entries have at least one mistake in them after Sunday’s NCAA Tournament games.
The final perfect bracket picked up its first ding on Yahoo Sports and CBS Sports on Saturday, with the combination of Michigan, BYU and Texas Tech all booking their spots in the Sweet 16.
Even with higher-seeded teams winning in all but one game on Sunday, some-upset minded fans choosing two-time defending national-champion UConn over No 1 seed Florida also lost their perfect brackets.
After Duke beat Baylor handily, only one perfect bracket was remaining on ESPN’s website.
That user’s chance at immortality went away later Sunday when his prediction of having Illinois upset Kentucky in the second round did not come to fruition.
That meant ESPN’s 24.3million brackets all were imperfect by the end of Sunday-night dinner.
There are officially no perfect brackets remaining anywhere in the world after Sunday’s games
The odds of having a perfect bracket are astronomical, with the all-time record being 49 games
Ironically, Kentucky’s victory also ended the last perfect bracket of staying unblemished on the NCAA’s site, with 34million entries.
While some made it deep into Sunday with perfect bracket’s intact, a majority of ESPN users did not make it beyond the first game of March Madness on Thursday, when Creighton upset Louisville.
More than 13.3million brackets were immediately rendered imperfect after the Cardinals could not defeat the Bluejays in their home state.
ESPN also reported that on 30 of its brackets, every first-round pick was wrong, eliminating those user’s chances of having a game beyond Saturday have meaning in the tournament.
Per the NCAA, the odds of having a perfect bracket are 1 in 9,223,372,036,854,775,808. However, lasting until the Illini’s defeat was the longest the last perfect bracket was alive in March Madness since 2019.
It was in 2019 when Gregg Nigl predicted the first 49 games correctly, a record that would take Herculean knowledge and luck to be taken down.
