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Perfect Brackets All but Busted After No. 11-Seeded Texas Upends Gonzaga
Texas' upset win over Gonzaga reduced ESPN's perfect March Madness brackets to only two, highlighting the rarity of flawless tournament picks.
- On Saturday, 11 seed Texas upset No. 3 seed Gonzaga 74-68 in the NCAA first round, wiping out many unblemished March Madness entries.
- Favored teams went 16-0 on Friday and started 4-0 on Saturday, leaving more than 100 brackets intact before 15th-seeded Fairleigh Dickinson nearly caused chaos.
- The ESPN contest began with 675,000 entries and after the first round 1,131 remained; on the NCAA's official site there were four perfect brackets.
- After the Longhorns' win there were 22 perfect entries in ESPN's bracket challenge and 27 in the NCAA's contest, pushing remaining perfect brackets into double digits.
- The rarity of perfection shows as the odds of a 63-0 perfect bracket range from one in 9.2 quintillion to one in 120 billion, and after Arkansas beat High Point, ESPN was left with two perfect brackets.
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Leaning Left3Leaning Right1Center11Last UpdatedBias Distribution73% Center
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- 73% of the sources are Center
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L 20%
C 73%
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