When Texas Tech won, that left just Nigl's "center road" bracket as the only perfect March Madness bracket left. The brackets disagreed on the fourth game of the day - Texas Tech-Buffalo. Saturday trimmed that field a bit more, and in games on , CBS, ESPN, Fox Sports, Sports Illustrated and Yahoo!, just two March Madness brackets remained perfect through 40 games heading into Sunday - Nigl's and a bracket at Yahoo. Of those, 15 were perfect after the first 32 games of the tournament. We tracked an estimated 25 million brackets from the start, at six major online games, including the Capital One March Madness Bracket Challenge here at. In 2019's tournament, the relative predictability (top seeds winning) of the NCAA tournament led to an abnormally high number of perfect brackets surviving the first round. Yahoo! Sports reported that Binder's bracket was the only time it had a perfect bracket go into the second round in its 18-plus years of hosting a game In 2014, Brad Binder went 36-for-36 to start the tournament. 2014 (and before)īefore 2017, the longest perfect bracket streak tracked was 36, according to Yahoo! Sports. ESPN said in 2016 that its 2015 bracket was the best start to a tournament it had on record in 18 years of its game. This was another top year, as one bracket in the ESPN online bracket game picked the first 34 games correctly, according to a story by ESPN senior writer Darren Rovell. A 15-2 upset (Middle Tennessee over Michigan State) made this a tough year for brackets. Austin's win over West Virginia on Friday night, the last remaining perfect NCAA tournament bracket busted. T he longest anyone went this year was 25 games. We saw an incredible 39 games picked to start the tournament, a number that was the highest recorded until 2019. The record-setting bracket, entered in Yahoo’s bracket game, was the only bracket to make it past 37 games unscathed, and managed to reach 39 straight correct picks before Iowa State fell short of a comeback against Purdue and handed the bracket its first loss of the tournament. Of the millions of brackets we tracked, 25 were perfect through the first 28 games of the tournament, but UMBC's win in game No. No perfect NCAA bracket lasted through the first round on Friday night, thanks to the historic 16-1 upset of UMBC over Virginia. Here's where we stood in each of the previous years: 2018 Gregg Nigl's 2019 NCAA bracket is perfect through the first two rounds. Determining an official record is made even more difficult by the fact that online games only recently have begun comprehensive record-keeping. With more than three decades of online and paper brackets to sift through (the current format has existed since 1985) and with somewhere between an estimated 60 million to 100 million brackets filled out every year, it's very possible that someone, somewhere has done better. Nigl, a neuropsychologist from Columbus, Ohio, became the first verified bracket ever to pick through to the Sweet 16 correctly. Then Gregg Nigl, of Columbus, shattered that record with his briefly-famous " center road" NCAA tournament bracket in the Capital One NCAA March Madness Bracket Challenge, which correctly predicted the first 49 games of the 2019 tournament before busting in game 50, when 3-seed Purdue beat 2-seed Tennessee 99-94 in overtime of the second game in the Sweet 16. 2019īefore the 2019 NCAA tournament, the longest streak of correct picks we had seen in a March Madness bracket was 39 games, achieved in 2017. That of course follows 2020, when COVID-19 forced the cancellation of the NCAA tournament. In 2021, multiple monumental upsets had all of the remaining perfect brackets busted on the 28 thgame. That’s when this bracket created by ESPN user "Bekins24" - busted. In 2022, all brackets busted on the first Friday of the tournament when No. 1 Purdue - only the second time a 16 beat a 1 in men's history. The last verifiably perfect men’s NCAA bracket busted in 2023 when No. Here's how long brackets have survived since 2014. The longest (verifiable) streak of correct picks in an NCAA tournament bracket to start the beloved March Madness tournament is 49, a streak that was established in 2019.Īn Ohio man correctly predicted the entire 2019 NCAA tournament into the Sweet 16, something we've not seen in years of tracking publicly verifiable online March Madness brackets at all major games.
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