How many espn brackets

With Stephen F. A upset Middle Tennessee over Michigan State made this a tough year for brackets. ESPN said in that its bracket was the best start to a tournament it had on record in 18 years of its game. Before , the longest perfect bracket streak tracked was 36, according to Yahoo!

In , Brad Binder went for to start the tournament. Sports reported that Binder's bracket was the only time it had a perfect bracket go into the second round in its plus years of hosting a game. In '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. Of those, 15 were perfect after the first 32 games of the tournament.

Saturday trimmed that field a bit more, and in games on NCAA. The brackets disagreed on the fourth game of the day — Texas Tech-Buffalo. When Texas Tech won, that left just Nigl's "center road" bracket as the only perfect March Madness bracket left. And after a runaway Gonzaga victory to start the Sweet 16, the "center road" bracket suffered its first loss, as Purdue beat Tennessee in overtime in the 50th game of the tournament.

After a week of college basketball fans attempting to build their brackets to perfection, nearly every one of them was busted on the first day of March Madness action. According to ESPN , of the The brutal bust-fest was led by No.

With the win, the Golden Eagles became just the ninth seed to pull off a first-round upset since the tournament expanded to a team bracket. Oral Roberts wasn't the only upset of the day. All told, five double-digit seeded teams stunned their favored opponents on Friday, making for one of the wildest opening days of March Madness in recent memory. With just perfect brackets remaining on ESPN, it's unlikely that any of them will make it through the second day of the tournament unscathed.

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