It will be another year without a perfect bracket for the NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament in the nation’s largest contest.
Upsets by Duquesne, Oakland and Yale busted many of the more than 22 million brackets entered in ESPN’s Tournament Challenge, and the last three entries fell Friday when South Region No. 12 seed James Madison beat fifth-seeded Wisconsin 72-61.
With only 1,825 brackets surviving the first full day of tourney action without a blemish, the number was down to single digits after Friday’s early games. Florida Atlantic’s loss to Northwestern knocked out about half of the survivors Thursday, with the eighth-seeded Wildcats picked in about 45% of brackets.
It was down to 306 perfect brackets on the ESPN site before No. 10 seed Colorado beat seventh-seeded Florida, leaving 62. Yale’s victory over Auburn left just 10. And with just four games remaining on Friday, there were only three perfect brackets remaining on the ESPN site — and none in the contest put on by CBS or the one on March Madness Live, the NCAA’s official site.
The quest for a winless bracket also ended Friday.