Well, it was fun while it lasted. No perfect men's March Madness brackets left after Tennessee win

No perfect men's NCAA Tournament brackets remain among the millions of entries in the ESPN bracket challenge and in contests tracked on the NCAA’s official website

March 23, 2026Updated: March 23, 2026
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Well, that's that.

No perfect brackets remained among the millions of entries in the ESPN bracket challenge and in the contests tracked on the NCAA's official website.

The end came Sunday night when in the 44th game of the tournament.

The day started with two perfect brackets left in the and four on the , which tracks the ESPN challenge along with six contests run by other outlets. ESPN had 26.5 million entries, and 36 million were tracked by the NCAA.

After a pair of No. 2 seeds eliminated No. 7s Sunday — and — ESPN had two intact brackets and the NCAA had three.

When Dylan Darling's buzzer-beating layup gave , ESPN had one perfect bracket left.

The number of perfect brackets in the women's tournament dropped to 279 in the and less than 400 on the after higher seeds won the first six games Sunday.

The closest women's games were 4-vs.-5 matchups. on a last-second shot and The other four games were blowouts decided by no fewer than 23 points. No. 1 seed Texas and No. 2 seed LSU hit triple digits, with the and the

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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