{"id":36671,"date":"2025-03-21T16:48:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T16:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/21\/under-0-1-of-march-madness-brackets-remain-perfect-after-first-day-of-games\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T16:48:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T16:48:22","slug":"under-0-1-of-march-madness-brackets-remain-perfect-after-first-day-of-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/21\/under-0-1-of-march-madness-brackets-remain-perfect-after-first-day-of-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Under 0.1% of March Madness brackets remain perfect after first day of games"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>NCAA says 0.0938% of over 34m brackets still perfect<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/mar\/20\/march-madness-2025-predictions-which-of-the-no-1-seeds-are-in-for-a-shock\">March Madness predictions: which No 1 seeds will fall?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/mar\/20\/2025-march-madness-sheet-ncaa-tournament-highlights-and-how-to-win-your-bracket\">Cheat sheet: highlights and how to win your bracket<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fewer than 1% of NCAA Tournament men\u2019s brackets were still perfect after Thursday\u2019s 16-game slate, according to several services where fans attempt the all-but impossible task of predicting every March Madness game correctly \u2013 or, barring that, win their office pools.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN\u2019s tracker listed 25,802 perfect brackets remaining out of more than 24m filled out on its site following the final game of the day, Texas Tech\u2019s win over UNC-Wilmington.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/mar\/21\/march-madness-bracket-percentages-ncaa-tournament\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NCAA says 0.0938% of over 34m brackets still perfect March Madness predictions: which No 1 seeds will fall? Cheat sheet: highlights and how to win your bracket Fewer than 1% of NCAA Tournament men\u2019s brackets were still perfect after Thursday\u2019s 16-game slate, according to several services where fans attempt the all-but impossible task of predicting &#8230; <a title=\"Under 0.1% of March Madness brackets remain perfect after first day of games\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/21\/under-0-1-of-march-madness-brackets-remain-perfect-after-first-day-of-games\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Under 0.1% of March Madness brackets remain perfect after first day of games\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}