The pursuit of the perfect NCAA Tournament bracket continues, but for far fewer people than when Saturday’s second-round games tipped off.
By Saturday evening, after wins by top seeds Duke and Michigan and third-seeded Michigan State, the number of unblemished entries had dropped to 105 in ESPN’s bracket challenge and 133 in the NCAA’s contest. There were more than 25 million entries in each.
The odds of going 63-0 in a bracket contest are somewhere between one in 9.2 quintillion (for totally random guesses) or one in 120 billion (semi-educated ones).
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