Will they survive that far? We'll be following them closely to see. The first game that they disagree on is the fourth of the day: Buffalo vs. Both of the perfect brackets have the same three picks to start Sunday: Tennessee, UNC, and Duke. Before this year, the best we'd ever seen was 39 games in a row. Recap: Out of tens of millions of brackets entered in online games, two have remained perfect through 40 games. All three of their first picks are the better-seeded team. They've got the same picks all the way until the 6:10 PM game between Buffalo and Texas Tech. They're looking good to start off, as Tennessee led Iowa by 21 at the half in the first game of the day. 1:20 PM: We added a chart above with each bracket's picks for the rest of the second round.But Tennessee recovered in extra time to take the 83-77 win, and both brackets survived through the first game of the day. 2:41 PM: The two remaining brackets had their scariest moment in a while, as Iowa rallied from a 25-point deficit to force the first overtime of the 2019 tournament.Both brackets picked the Blue Devils there. 5:05 PM: UNC blew past Washington 81-59 to reach the Sweet 16 and push both brackets to 42 correct picks in a row.As a result, both brackets are still alive through 43 games. In perhaps the best game of the tournament, 1-seed Duke barely survived against 9-seed UCF. Four more games to go before the Sweet 16. With that result, Yahoo's " Court Stormers" bows out of the race, leaving " center road" as the last perfect bracket in the world. Texas Tech blew out 6-seed Buffalo, which was the only game today that the two brackets differed on. The bracket is still perfect through 45 games. 9:09 PM: 4-seed Virginia Tech held off 12-seed Liberty, just as "center road" predicted.9:57 PM: 1-seed Virginia had a much easier time in the second round, knocking off 9-seed Oklahoma.11:06 PM: Ohio State kept it close against Houston for the first half, but the Cougars pulled out the win to advance to the Sweet 16 and advance "center road" to 47 correct picks in a row.With that game, "Center Road" became the first bracket ever to pick 48 straight games, staying perfect through to the Sweet 16. 11:43 PM: UC Irvine went on a 14-0 run to take the lead against Oregon in the second half, but the Ducks went on a tear late, and ran away for a double-digit win.How long can "center road" survive? The unthinkable, a complete 63-for-63, is just 15 games away now. The tournament starts again Thursday with the Sweet 16. Four games later, after Oregon beat UC Irvine, "center road" was still a flawless 48-for-48, a ridiculous feat. "center road", the bracket in our Bracket Challenge Game, correctly predicted the Red Raiders, and thus became the last perfect bracket left. They had the exact same predictions aside from one: Texas Tech vs. We started the day with just two perfect brackets left. Nigl hadn't been tracking the bracket himself, and had no idea that it was perfect until we called him. 9:05 PM: We found the man behind "center road": 40-year-old neuropsychologist Gregg Nigl.Gregg Nigl talks about his perfect bracket and predictions ahead of the Sweet 16 4:38 PM: 's Andy Katz caught up with Nigl for a Skype interview to break down his upset picks:.5:38 PM: We got word today that Nigl cut his Vermont vacation short to head out to Anaheim and watch his Michigan Wolverines play in the Sweet 16 in person with his son, thanks to Buick.We confirmed with Nigl that those are not his accounts. Earlier in the week, there was a fake Instagram account as well. 6:04 PM: Some people, including the Associated Press, have fallen for a fake Twitter account posing as Nigl.9:18 PM: In the first game since Sunday, Gonzaga held off Florida State for a double-digit win, and Nigl's streak is churning once again.With the loss, Nigl's famous bracket was finally, and forever, imperfect. Nigl had picked Tennessee, his first incorrect prediction in the 50 games of the tournament. In one of the best games of the tournament, Tennessee rallied from a double-digit deficit to force overtime against Purdue, but the Boilermakers ran away with the game in overtime. THE PERFECT NCAA BRACKET TRACKER: THURSDAY, MARCH 28 Read on below for our game-by-game tracker from the start of the tournament to see exactly how we got from tens of millions of brackets to just one, and then none. Sadly, he was only able to cherish one victory - Gonzaga's win over Florida State in the first game Thursday - before the bracket became like every other one of the millions we tracked: busted. "I had no idea that this was even happening." "So wait, you’re saying I’m the first person to have ever done this?" Nigl asked when we told him the news. When we reached Nigl Monday, he had absolutely no idea that he had a perfect bracket.
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