Brackets busted after pair of No. 14 seeds advance
A look at the 2015 NCAA Tournament bracket. Credit: NCAA
Last year quite a few people made it through the first full day of the NCAA Tournament with perfect brackets intact.
This year? Not so much.
Before UAB upset Iowa State in the second result Thursday, 97.3 percent of entries in CBS Sports' bracket challenge were perfect. After UAB's win, 3 percent were. Then another No. 14 seed, Georgia State, upset No. 3 seed Baylor, and by 4 p.m. Eastern Time only 0.27 percent of brackets in CBS' contest were unblemished.
By 6 p.m., after UCLA beat SMU, 0.089 percent of CBS brackets and 0.12 on ESPN's site were perfect. By 7, after only seven games had been completed, CBS had a mere 0.0573 percent pristine brackets.
Neil Best first worked at Newsday in 1982, returned in 1985 after a detour to Alaska and has been here since, specializing in high schools, college basketball, the NFL and most recently sports media and business.
