Still 2 perfect brackets in the NCAA Tournament.
After 40 basketball games in this year’s March Madness, two people have picked every winner — the longest run of perfection ever, according to NCAA.com.
The website is tracking the tens of millions of brackets entered online through the its own Bracket Challenge Game as well as ESPN, CBS, Yahoo, Fox, and Sports Illustrated. But getting it right is harder than picking the winning Mega Millions of Powerball numbers: The odds of filling out a perfect bracket through all 63 games are 1 in 9.2 quintillion, or 9.2 billion billions.
But heading into Saturday, 16 quests for perfection remained, according to NCAA.com. When LSU beat Maryland, the number dropped to seven. Then it was six, after Kentucky beat Wofford. All of those six correctly sided with Michigan over Florida, but two fell to the wayside when Florida State beat Murray State. It remained at four after Gonzaga beat Baylor, but one fell out with Purdue’s trouncing of Villanova, last year’s NCAA champs, and another dropped out with Auburn’s victory over Kansas.
The two remaining brackets disagree on only one of Sunday’s games: Buffalo vs. Texas Tech, the final tip-off the of the day. They have Tennessee, the University of North Carolina, and Duke winning the first three games. If any of those lose, no one will be perfect.Silvia Ascarelli Silvia Ascarelli is a senior news editor for MarketWatch based in New York. You can follow her on Twitter @SilviaAscarelli.
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