Nearly every bracket has busted.
Through Friday’s early games, the number of perfect brackets in the NCAA Tournament was down to 0.0044% out of 34 million, according to the NCAA.
ESPN’s tracker listed 1,098 perfect brackets remaining out of 24 million on its site following Ole Miss’ 71-64 win over North Carolina. That game also took out more than 100 brackets in Yahoo Sports’ Men’s Bracket Mayhem, leaving 81 perfect brackets — essentially down to 0%.
CBS Sports had a similar attrition rate, down to 0.005% unblemished brackets following the Ole Miss win.
More than 85% of Yahoo’s brackets had Clemson advancing, but the Tigers lost to McNeese 69-67. That game knocked out 6.6 million ESPN brackets, too.
Creighton was listed as ESPN’s top bracket buster after its 89-75 win over Louisville in Thursday’s first game, knocking out 13,339,089.
On the other end of the spectrum, ESPN reported that every pick was wrong on 30 of its brackets — a nearly impossible feat in its own right even if a contestant were trying to pick all losers.
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