It is going to be one other yr with out a good NCAA Event bracket.
Upsets by Yale, Oakland and Duquesne busted most of the greater than 22 million brackets entered within the largest contest, ESPN’s Event Problem, and the final three fell on Friday night time when James Madison beat Wisconsin 72-61.
With just one,825 surviving the primary day of motion, the quantity was all the way down to single digits after Friday’s early video games. Florida Atlantic’s loss to Northwestern knocked out about half of the survivors Thursday, with the eighth-seeded Wildcats picked in about 45% of brackets.
It was all the way down to 306 good brackets on the ESPN website earlier than No. 10 seed Colorado beat seventh-seeded Florida, leaving 62. Yale’s victory over Auburn left simply 10. And with simply 4 video games remaining on Friday night time there have been solely three good brackets remaining on the ESPN website — and none in CBS’ contest or the one on March Insanity Dwell, the NCAA’s official website.
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The search for a winless bracket additionally ended Friday.
One particular person on the ESPN website made it by means of the primary day after which some with out choosing a recreation accurately, that means they took a flyer on No. 16 seed Wagner over top-seeded North Carolina however missed on the precise losses by third-seeded Kentucky and No. 6 seeds Texas Tech and Brigham Younger. They dropped out of competition for the ignominious honor of a wonderfully imperfect bracket when Colorado beat Florida 102-100 on a last-second shot.
The percentages of choosing an ideal bracket at random — not even counting the play-in video games — is 1 likelihood out of two to the 63rd energy, which is 1 in 9,223,372,036,854,775,808, or about 1 in 9.2 quintillion (give or take 20 quadrillion or so). In response to College of Hawaii researchers, that’s extra brackets than the variety of grains of sand on Earth.
A document 22 million brackets had been crammed out on ESPN’s website, up 15% over final yr, with a few of the early outcomes knocking out tens of millions. Mississippi State’s 69-51 loss to Michigan State and Brigham Younger’s 71-67 loss to Duquesne every took out greater than 9 million brackets. The most important upset of the primary day, third-seeded Kentucky’s 80-76 loss to Oakland, additionally did some harm: The third-seeded Wildcats had been picked in 95% of brackets within the ESPN Event Problem to beat the 14th-seeded Golden Grizzlies.
CBS mentioned its final good bracket was spoiled when Yale received on Friday afternoon.
Final yr, when there have been victories by No. 15 seed Princeton and No. 13 seed Furman on the primary day, the final remaining good brackets fell on top-seeded Purdue’s loss to Fairleigh Dickinson — simply the second No. 16 seed to beat a No. 1 seed in match historical past.
Within the ladies’s match, which began on Friday, ESPN’s bracket problem had a document 3.25 million entries — 56% greater than final yr. Nearly half, 1.5 million, went out on Center Tennessee’s victory over Louisville and 1.3 million others had been taken out when Michigan State misplaced to North Carolina.
CBS additionally reported a document variety of brackets for the ladies’s match, a 126% improve over final yr.
