NCAA Tournament: Perfect Brackets Shattered

0:00On March 20, perfect brackets in the men's NCAA tournament took a beating right from the start this year. On Yahoo Sports, almost everyone who entered saw their hopes dashed by the end of Thursday with upsets dropping the perfect count to Jess' zero point. One percent. The action started early and didn't let up. The standout shocker came from No. 12 seed, High Point, who edged No. 5 Wisconsin 83-82. Jess and sealed it with a layup in the final 11 seconds. His very first two-point basket all season. That alone slashed perfect brackets to 5.5%. Duke gave fans a scare but held on against No. 16, Sienna 71-65 after trailing big early. Vanderbilt then beat No. 12 McNeese 78-68, trimming survivors to 1.6%. He wins by Arkansas over Hawaii and Michigan State over North Dakota State kept the pressure on.

1:00Late upsets sealed the deal. Number 11, VCU stays the biggest first round comeback ever, rallying from 19 down to beat No. 6 Carolina in overtime, leaving 0.6% perfect. Number 11, Texas survived No. 6 BYU, despite a 35-point night from AJ DiBanza. As Friday's games loom, a tiny fraction of brackets hang on undefeated after day 1. This tournament's chaos shows no signs of slowing, promising more thrills ahead.