March Madness women's perfect bracket tracker: Only 0.2% of perfect brackets remain after 28 games
It took a while for things to settle down, and there weren't many upsets on the day, but an incredible 97.9% of entries in Yahoo Sports' Women's Bracket Mayhem were busted after the first day of play on Friday in the women's NCAA tournament.
Then, on Saturday afternoon, all but 0.2% remained as the first wave of games wrapped up. There weren't any big upsets in the early wave of games. UConn rolled to a 69-point win over Arkansas State, and NC State, Alabama, Iowa and West Virginia all picked up double-digit wins. But it still knocked out a good chunk of perfect brackets to get the day started and brought the number down to just 1.7% through 22 games. Then, after South Dakota State's win over Oklahoma State, USC's opening-round win and Mississippi State's win over Cal, just 0.2% were still standing.
Upsets were hard to come by on Friday in the women's tournament. Only No. 9 Indiana's 76-68 win over No. 8 Utah and No 10 Oregon's 77-73 overtime win over No. 7 Vanderbilt were technical upsets based on seeding. Richmond's blowout win over Georgia Tech, which wasn't an upset seeding-wise, knocked out about 5% of perfect brackets. The rest of the games went down as the selection committee expected.
No. 1 seed South Carolina picked up a 60-point win over Tennessee Tech, and No. 3 Notre Dame beat No. 14 Stephen F. Austin by 52 points to rally after what was a brutal finish to the season for the Fighting Irish. Ohio State, TCU, Ole Miss and Baylor all grabbed double-digit wins, too.
The biggest scare of Friday came after No. 4 Kentucky nearly blew a 17-point fourth-quarter lead. The Wildcats beat No. 13 Liberty by just a single point in their matchup.
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