Perfect brackets fall into single digits after day 3 of March Madness
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Key Points:
- After 40 games in the NCAA Tournament, only 2 out of 26,587,885 brackets remained perfect following No. 11 seed Texas's upset over No. 3 seed Gonzaga.
- Texas's victory significantly reduced perfect brackets in ESPN’s challenge to 22 and the NCAA’s contest to 27.
- Higher-seeded teams dominated the last Saturday games, with notable wins by No. 4 Nebraska and No. 1 seeds Duke and Michigan, leaving only a handful of perfect brackets intact.
- In the women's tournament, perfect brackets dropped sharply from 675,000 to 1,131 after the first round, with few lower-seeded upsets occurring.
- The statistical odds of completing a
