Are there any perfect brackets left in 2023? Tracking the best March Madness remaining brackets

Has anyone ever had a perfect mount? Every year people somehow delude themselves that they could. But maybe it will work out this year.

Basketball fans — and even some non-basketball fans — fill out brackets for the NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament every year. The hope is that this year’s bracket will be perfect. And when that submit button is hit, it sure looks like that bracket might just be perfect.

But to date, no one has submitted a verified perfect mount for March Madness. There have been some valiant efforts in the past that have come close, but the chances of getting a perfect bracket are so slim, even for the world’s savviest college basketball fans.

In 2023, The Sporting News will follow basketball fans’ attempts to piece together the perfect mount. As long as there is a verified bracket that correctly predicted the outcome of each game, we will keep track.

Here’s a look at how braces will perform in 2023:

Will there still be perfect brackets in 2023?

Good news folks. Since the first round hasn’t started yet, every bracket is perfect. But that won’t last long. Embrace this 100% correct course while it holds. There will be a lot of crossed out red lines running through it later.

ESPN

Every ESPN bracket is perfect for now.

Yahoo

Every Yahoo bracket is perfect for now.

CBS

Any CBS mount is perfect for now.

NCAA

Every NCAA bracket is perfect for now.

What percentage of the brackets are still perfect?

As of Thursday, that number is a perfect 100 percent. Last year, it went down to zero on Friday, day two of the tournament, when No. 11 Iowa State defeated No. 6 LSU. Most brackets could thank Saint Peter’s for beating No. 2 Kentucky in the first round for ruining their pursuit of perfection.

Perfect odds for the March Madness bracket

Some people rule out buying a lottery ticket because the odds of winning are too high. But that won’t stop some people from entering March Madness with confidence that their bracket will be perfect.

According to Powerball, the chance of winning the grand prize is 1 in 292,201,338. The odds of getting every choice right in March Madness? That would be 1-in-9,223,372,036,854,775,808, which is based on every game being a coin toss. The NCAA put the odds of a knowledgeable fan getting a perfect brace at 1 in 120.2 billion.

If everyone out of 7.9 billion people in the world knows about college basketball, everyone would need to fill in 15.2 brackets for at least one bracket to be perfect, based on the odds.

What is the longest time a bracket has stayed perfect?

In 2023, many brackets remain perfect. But they probably won’t last that long.

However, in 2019, Gregg Nigl of Columbus, Ohio, correctly predicted the first 49 games of the tournament. It wasn’t until No. 3 Purdue defeated No. 2 Tennessee that Nigl’s bid for the first-ever perfect bracket went down.