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I may pass her now. We both had Louisville in the final four but I had them losing their first game there and she had them winning it all......
 
Only one of my teams left in the final four. Michigan and Michigan State both gone.....
 
Out of more than 11.57 million brackets entered in ESPN's Tournament Challenge, one bracket emerged from the round of 64 of the NCAA tournament with a perfect 32-0 record. This is the first time there was a perfect first round in ESPN's Tournament Challenge since at least 2010 (we're still trying to find out exactly the last time it happened, but it's been a number of years).

There were six perfect brackets heading into the final game of the night between the Dayton Flyers and Providence Friars. The No. 11-seeded Flyers' upset win reduced the perfect field to one.

http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebask...rnament-challenge-one-bracket-remains-perfect
 
And then there were none.

In the 35th game of the NCAA tournament, the final perfect bracket fell.

A 26-year-old sign language interpreter from Cleveland picked his favorite team -- Ohio State -- to beat Arizona. The Wildcats bested the Buckeyes 73-58 Saturday night.

On Friday night, the man who became the sole ESPN.com entrant with a perfect bracket through the round of 64 was checking his phone from a salsa club, reloading the final scoreboards to make sure he still had every game correct.

By day's end, Malachi, who asked to keep his last name anonymous out of privacy concerns, had the only one out of 11.57 million brackets with every team still in green.

Picking Kansas to beat Kentucky in the Elite Eight is one regret for Malachi, who had the only perfect bracket out of 11.57 million after the second round.

So what type of basketball savant is this guy? How much research and number crunching did he do?

"Nothing," he said Saturday, after his first two picks of the day, UCLA and Kentucky, advanced. "I actually haven't watched a full game this entire year."

Malachi got much further than anyone got last year, as no entry on any of the major websites survived the round of 64.

He said his brother called him Thursday morning to remind him that he only had 15 minutes to fill out a bracket. He filled out two.

"I knew I had to have some upsets, but I can't really give you specific reasons as to why I chose certain teams over others," he said.

In the Midwest and the East, Malachi chose all the favorites to win, with the exception of Dayton.

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-bas...et-watched-college-basketball-game-all-season
 
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