One Game Busted Half of All NCAA Brackets
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Key Points:
- Over 36 million NCAA tournament brackets were submitted, but only about 14,000 remain flawless after the first day, according to NCAA stats cited by Forbes.
- More than half of all brackets were busted in the opening game when No. 9 TCU upset No. 8 Ohio State, with additional upsets by lower-seeded teams like No. 12 High Point and No. 11 VCU further reducing perfect entries.
- Top-seeded Duke narrowly avoided a historic upset by overcoming a halftime deficit against No. 16 Siena, preventing an even greater bracket collapse.
- No one has ever completed a perfect NCAA tournament bracket by correctly predicting all 63 games, though a $1 billion prize is being offered this
