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Perfect Brackets All but Busted After No. 11-Seeded Texas Upends Gonzaga
Texas, an 11 seed from the First Four, defeated No. 3 Gonzaga 74-68, leaving only two perfect brackets in ESPN's March Madness challenge out of 26,587,885 entries.
- On Saturday, 11 seed Texas upset No. 3 seed Gonzaga 74-68 in the NCAA first round, wiping out many unblemished brackets.
- Before Texas's game, favorites had gone 16-0 on Friday and started 4-0 on Saturday, leaving more than 100 brackets intact.
- The ESPN contest began with 675,000 entries and after the first round 1,131 remained, while the NCAA's official site showed four perfect brackets.
- After the Longhorns' win there were 22 perfect entries in ESPN's bracket challenge and 27 in the NCAA's contest, reducing remaining brackets to double digits.
- The rarity of perfection shows as the odds of a 63-0 perfect bracket range from one in 9.2 quintillion to one in 120 billion, and ESPN ended with two perfect brackets.
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Leaning Left3Leaning Right1Center12Last UpdatedBias Distribution75% Center
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- 75% of the sources are Center
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L 19%
C 75%
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