The most notable streak of perfect bracket pick in the NCAA Tournament to initiate the famous March Madness is 49. In 2019, a March Madness fan from Ohio perfectly predicted the whole NCAA Tournament 2019 into the Sweet 16. This was a revolutionary moment as it had not been witnessed for years. Though the online monitoring of the longest streak for all the major games remains an intriguing subject, this moment went down the history books.
In 2021, many fundamental drawbacks had every remaining ideal bracket shattered by the 28th game. It comes at a time when the pandemic saw the cancellation of March Madness in 2020. Before the 49 perfect bracket pick, Gregg Nigl from Columbus had the longest streak in 2019 with 39 games. Gregg Nigl busted the record with his popular center road bracket at the Capital One NCAA March Madness Bracket Challenge. It perfectly predicted the initial 49 games in the 2019 NCAA Tournament.
In the 50th games, in a score of 99 to 94, Tennessee lost to Purdue during overtime in the second game. Gregg Nigl is a Columbus-based neuropsychologist who got the first perfect bracket pick in the Sweet 16. With over thirty years of paper and online brackets to filter, there is a possibility that a fan could have performed better. This is considering the projected sixty to one hundred million NCAA Tournament brackets picked out annually.
It could be challenging to determine the official record given that online games started extensive record-keeping in the recent past. Most recently, it has become possible to track roughly twenty to twenty-five million brackets online at a half dozen of the major games each year. The use of public leaderboards, direct reporting, and collecting data relating to those games have made the tracking process possible. Before 2016, reports on the games and online archives provided the most useful information.
Until 2021, the Sweet 16 had no verified perfect bracket. In 2010, there were reports of a perfect bracket in the two rounds. However, the authenticity of the bracket could not be verified. The entry of this bracket was included in an online game, and the picks could have been changed. In 2018, there was no ideal NCAA Tournament bracket that made it through the first round-owing to the loss of Virginia to UMBC in the score of sixteen to one. In the initial 28 games, 25 were correct, although, in the 29th win, UMBC had an unmatched win.
At the beginning of the NCAA Tournament, there was a correct pick in 39 games. This went on record as the longest streak until 2019. In 2016, there a correct pick in 25 games where West Virginia lost to Stephen F. Austin. It was a challenging year for the NCAA Tournament bracket with the fifteen to two upset where Michigan State lost to Middle Tennessee. In 2019, the prediction of the top seeds winning in March Madness resulted in an unusually high number of ideal brackets, making it through the initial round. In the first 32 games, fifteen of them were perfect.
There was an even playing field with games on Yahoo!, Fox Sports, NCAA.com, ESPN, Sports Illustrated, and CBS. The brackets from Yahoo and Nigl were correct through 40 games. In the fourth game, these brackets were different. Gregg Nigl had a center road bracket with the win from Texas Tech. Center road made it through the overtime win from Tennessee and the escape from Duke. Following a runaway victory from Gonzaga to begin the Sweet 16, the first loss of the center road bracket was from the Purdue win over Tennessee during the 50th game.
It will be difficult to top the 49 games perfect bracket pick in the future. In three years, it was the second time that Purdue had busted a perfect NCAA Tournament bracket. The chances of winning an ideal 63-game March Madness bracket are one to 9.2 quintillion. However, these are the ideal odds for an NCAA Tournament if each game had an equal chance of winning. If you use the knowledge of the NCAA men's basketball to draw up a formula, the chances of selecting an ideal bracket could go as low as one in 28 billion.
This is according to Jeff Bergen, the later professor from DePaul. Jeff Bergen projected if each person in the world started filling out an NCAA Tournament bracket every minute, it would be possible to fill out 9.2 quintillion entries in 2000 years.
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