March Madness perfect bracket tracker: Just 76 remain unblemished after 24 games
The latest, No. 12 Colorado St. upsetting No. 5 Memphis, dwindled the number from .1% to 0%. Then after Saint Mary's rallied to beat Vanderbilt on Friday afternoon, the number of perfect brackets remaining dropped below 200. Though the Tar Heels' comeback attempt failed, Ole Miss' win over North Carolina then eliminated more than 100 additional entries. That brought the total perfect brackets down to double digits for the first time.
Two No. 12 seeds — the other being No. 12 McNeese over No. 5 Clemson on Thursday — have now moved onto the second round and have taken out a huge swath of brackets.
More than 85% of the entries picked Clemson, and those 85% pretty much knew by halftime of Thursday's game that their brackets were about to bust. The Tigers managed just 13 first-half points, one off the tournament record for fewest points scored in a half. Clemson went on a run late in the second half to make things interesting, but ultimately couldn't overcome the putrid first half, losing 69-67.
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Nearly 66% picked picked No. 7 Kansas against No. 10 Arkansas on Thursday, which left about 5% of brackets still perfect after the Razorbacks held on in a back-and-forth affair. More than 58% had Missouri over Drake.
By Friday morning, just .1% remained perfect ... until Colorado State.
Duke is the overwhelming favorite among users, with 31% picking the Blue Devils to win it all, followed by Florida (21.5), Auburn (10.3) and Houston (8.9). The most popular non-No. 1 seed is No. 2 St. John's, with 4.7% picking the Johnnies.
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