NCAA Tournament: One perfect bracket remains

In ESPN’s Tournament Challenge, just one perfect bracket is left out of millions.

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Everyone knows what time it is when March rolls around, it’s time to fill out your college brackets. Every year, ESPN.com holds a bracket challenge where users can submit their bracket for a chance to win prizes. This year, there was an estimated 11.57 million people who registered under the service.

After the first round of the NCAA tournament, there is only one bracket that emerged with a perfect score. The competition the site holds hasn’t seen a perfect 32-0 after the first round in nearly five years.

11.57 million people filled out a bracket on ESPN's Bracket Challenge...

Only ONE (!!) is still perfect.
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) March 21, 2015

This is the first time there was a perfect Round of 64 in ESPN's Tournament Challenge since at least 2010.
— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) March 21, 2015

Going into the final game of the first round, there were a total of six perfect brackets. The game was between No. 6 Providence Friars and No. 11 Dayton Flyers. However, after Dayton upset Providence, that number dwindled down to just one.

During Thursday’s games, we saw two 14-over-3 upsets, which came to a surprise to most contestants. After the end of Thursday’s games, there were only 273 perfect brackets. However, that number stayed fairly steady after the favored teams went 15-1 on Friday.

However, the game isn’t over and it’s still anyone’s for the taking. So far, only five lower seeds have won to make it to the round of 32. And one of those teams, Ohio State, was picked in a majority of brackets to win. That leaves the all-chalk bracket at a solid 27-5, which is good enough for the 98.7 percentile.

In addition, a lot of favored teams are still in the race to win. Of the teams picked most to win it all, only two have been eliminated. Iowa State, which was picked by 1.6 percent of contestants, and Baylor, which was picked by 0.4 percent of contestants.

To compare yourself with others, if you had UCLA meeting UAB in the first game of the day, then you were part of only 2.7 of brackets that also did so. In addition, only 7.7 percent of brackets have UCLA advancing to the Sweet 16, while only 1.7 percent have UAB moving on. For records, the last perfect bracket has UCLA winning this game. The least picked team to make it to the Sweet 16 is Cincinnati, at a mere 1.3 percent.

You can check out the perfect bracket here:

This is what the only perfect ESPN Tournament Challenge bracket remaining looks like: http://t.co/28niIY1vkc. Congrats to Malaquias4394.
— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) March 21, 2015

Good luck with your brackets!

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