The longest an NCAA bracket has ever stayed perfect

The longest (verifiable) strip of the right NCAA tips to start the beloved March Madness tournament is 49, a stamp founded in 2019.

Ohio man correctly predicted the entire NCAA tournament in 2019 to Sweet 16, which we did not see in the years of watching publicly verifiable online march in all major games.

Here is how long the holders have survived since 2014.

2025

Men’s holders remained perfect until No. 3 Kentucky in the second round in the second round in the game 43 on Sunday – the best run since 2019. The last holder, called “#Roadtoperfection“He competed in the ESPN game.

2024

The last perfect men’s holder almost walked through the first round, but the victory of State No. 8 against No. 9 TCU cleared the last permanent holder for 31. Last holder – named ”MEDAGE 84’S PICKS 7“ – He was in the ESPN game.

2023

The last proven perfect men’s NCAA holder was arrested in 2023, when No. 16 FDU amazed No. 1 Purdue – only for the second time 16 defeated 1 in the history of men. It came to 25. The game.

2022

In 2022, all parenthesis were arrested on the first Friday of the tournament, when No. 11 Iowa State upset No. 6 LSU, 59-54. At that time, this holder created by the ESPN user “Bekins24” – Busted.

2021

In 2021, several monumental disturbances of all the remaining perfect consoles were 28. game. This is, of course, followed by 2020, when Covid-19 forced the abolition of the NCAA tournament.

2019

Before the NCAA tournament in 2019, the longest strip of the right tips we saw in March Mad Holder, 39 games achieved in 2017.

Then Gregg Nigl broke this record with its briefly famous “Center Road” holder in Capital One NCAA March Madness Bracket Challengewhich correctly predicted the first 49 tournaments 2019 before he plunged into play 50 when No. 3 Purdue beat No. 2 Tennessee 99-94 in overtime second game in Sweet 16.

Nigl, a neuropsychologist from Columbus, Ohio, has become the first verified holder to have ever chosen to Sweet 16.

With more than three decades of online and paper brackets to stroll (the current format has existed since 1985), and somewhere between 60 to 100 million brackets filled every year, it is very possible that someone has done better somewhere. Determination of the official record is even more difficult by the fact that online games have only recently begun comprehensive records.

Since 2016, we have carefully watched about 20 to 25 million online brackets per year in large games using public ranking in combination with direct reporting and collecting information with these games. Before 2016, we relied on the news of these games and online archives to get the best available information.

Until Nigl we could not find any proven parenthesis that were perfect at Sweet 16. In 2010, a widely reported instance of the holder, which was perfect in 2010, but there was no way to verify the authenticity of the holder. Was entered into an online game where they could change between the wheels According to the Deadspin report at the time.

During the first two rounds, Gregg Nigl 2019 is NCAA BRACKET.

Here we stood in each of the previous years:

2018

The first round on Friday evening did not last any perfect NCAA holders, thanks to the historical disturbance of Umbc over Virginia 16-1. Of the millions of parentheses we watched, 25 was perfect during the first 28 tournament games, but the victory of Umbc in game 29 was all set off.

2017

We Saw An Incredible 39 Games Picked To Start the Tournament, A Number That Was The Highes Recorded Until 2019. The Record-Setting Bracket, Enterred in Yahoo’s Bracket Game, Was the Only Bracket to Make It Past 37 Games Unscathed Correct Picks Before Iowa State Fell Short of A Comeback Against Purdue and Handed the Bracket Its First Loss of the Tournament.

2016

The longest anyone this year went 25 games. With the victory of Stephen F. Austin over West Virginia on Friday evening, the last remaining NCAA tournament arrested. The disturbance of 15-2 (Middle Tennessee over the Michigan state) made it a difficult year for parentheses.

2015

This was another best year because one ESPN online holder has selected the first 34 games correctly, right, right, right, According to the story of senior writer ESPN Darren Rovell. ESPN said in 2016 that its holder in 2015 was the best start of the tournament, which was recorded in 18 years of its game.

2014 (and earlier)

Before 2017 he was according to Yahoo! 36 Watched strip of perfect holders 36 sports. In 2014, Brad Binder went 36 to 36 to start the tournament. Yahoo! Sports reported that Binder’s bracket was Only the time when he had the perfect parentheses, to the second round at his 18 years of hosting the game

In the 2019 tournament, the relative predictability (victory of the highest seeds) led the event to an unusually high number of perfect holders that survived the first round. From the beginning we watched an estimated 25 million parentheses, in six main online games, including Capital One March Madness Bracket Challenge Here at ncaa.com. Of these, 15 were perfect after the first 32 tournament games.

Saturday raised this field a little more and in games on ncaa.com, cbs, ESPN, Fox Sports, Sports Illustrated and Yahoo!, Only two March Madness remained perfect during 40 games heading until Sunday – Nigl and Yahoo holder.

The brackets disagreed in the fourth game of the-Texas Tech-Buffalo. When Texas Tech won, he left in Bracket Nigl as the only perfect torch madness. This holder survived several fears on Sunday, including victory in Tennessee overtime and Duke’s escape over the UCF.

And after Gonzaga, Sweet 16, founded the “Center Road” victory, he suffered his first loss because Purdue defeated Tennessee 99-94 in overtime in the 50th tournament. This running of 49 right games will be very difficult in the future.

The likelihood of a perfect 63-game NCAA holder can be up to 1 out of 9.2 quintillion-i when they are perfect chances of brackets if each game was 50-50 coins. If you take the NCAA men’s basketball knowledge, there may be a chance to choose a perfect holder of up to 1 out of 28 billion, According to the late professor Depaul Jeff Bergen.

Bergen estimated whether each person on the planet 7.5 billion It began to fill in the holder per minute, it would take more than 2,000 years to fill 9.2 Quinllion.

– Dan Jepperson, Mike Szahai and Daniel Wilco contributed to this report