{"id":540268,"date":"2026-03-23T10:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T10:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/540268\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T10:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T10:29:11","slug":"no-perfect-mens-march-madness-brackets-remain-after-vols-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/540268\/","title":{"rendered":"No perfect men’s March Madness brackets remain after Vols’ victory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, that\u2019s that.<\/p>\n

No perfect NCAA Tournament<\/a> brackets remained among the millions of entries in the ESPN bracket challenge and in the contests tracked on the NCAA\u2019s official website.<\/p>\n

The end came Sunday night when No. 6 seed Tennessee beat No. 3 seed Virginia 79-72<\/a> in the 44th game of the tournament \u2014 and before No. 9 seed Iowa pulled the biggest stunner of the weekend by knocking off No. 1 seed and defending national champion Florida 73-72.<\/a><\/p>\n

The day started with two perfect brackets left in the ESPN contest<\/a> and four on the NCAA\u2019s site<\/a>, which tracks the ESPN challenge along with six contests run by other outlets. ESPN had 26.5 million entries, and 36 million were tracked by the NCAA.<\/p>\n

After a pair of No. 2 seeds eliminated No. 7s Sunday \u2014 Purdue beat Miami 79-69<\/a> and Iowa State topped Kentucky 82-63<\/a> \u2014 ESPN had two intact brackets and the NCAA had three.<\/p>\n

When Dylan Darling\u2019s buzzer-beating layup gave No. 5 seed St. John\u2019s a 67-65 win over No. 4 seed Kansas<\/a>, ESPN had one perfect bracket left.<\/p>\n

The number of perfect brackets in the women\u2019s tournament dropped to 166 in the ESPN contest<\/a> and 400 on the NCAA website<\/a> after higher seeds won the first six games Sunday.<\/p>\n

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Four of the games were decided by fewer than 10 points, and the other four were blowouts decided by at least 23 points. Minnesota beat Mississippi 65-63<\/a> on a last-second shot, North Carolina got past Maryland 74-66<\/a> and Oklahoma defeated Michigan State 77-71<\/a> in 4 vs. 5 matchups. No. 1 seed Texas and No. 2 seed LSU hit triple digits, with the Longhorns routing No. 8 seed Oregon 100-58<\/a> and the Tigers mauling No. 7 seed Texas Tech 101-47.<\/a><\/p>\n

The odds of going 63-0 in a bracket contest are somewhere between one in 9.2 quintillion (for totally random guesses) or one in 120 billion (semi-educated ones). <\/p>\n

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AP March Madness bracket: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ncaa-mens-bracket<\/a> and coverage: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/march-madness<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Well, that\u2019s that. No perfect NCAA Tournament brackets remained among the millions of entries in the ESPN bracket…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[402,4044,2662,53629,147548,147549,99,2219,19501],"class_list":["post-540268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-basketball","tag-college-basketball","tag-college-sports","tag-dylan-darling","tag-march-madness-ncaa-tournament","tag-ncaa-mens-bracket","tag-sports","tag-tennessee","tag-tennessee-volunteers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}