NCAA Tournament: Perfect Brackets Shattered

0:00On March 20, the dream of a perfect men's bracket in this year's NCAA tournament didn't last long for most Yahoo Sports users. By the end of the first day, only about 700 brackets remained perfect out of millions. The biggest shocker came from 12th-seated high point, who edged 5th-seated Wisconsin 83-82 on a game-winning layup with 11 seconds left. That layup came from Chase Johnston, who remarkably made his first 2-point basket of the entire season. He'd gone 0 for 4 from inside the arc before that game and led the country in minutes played without a 2-pointer. High points win slash perfect brackets to just 5.5% right away. Duke survived the double-digit deficit to beat 16th-seated Sienna 71-65, saving some brackets temporarily. But Vanderbilt's win over 12 seeding knees, plus easy victories by Arkansas and Michigan state, dropped the perfect count to 1.4%. Later upsets Pawnon, with 11 seeded VCU stage in the largest first round comeback ever,

1:04to beat 6th-seated North Carolina in overtime. 11th-seated Texas held off 6th-seated BYU, despite 35 points from AJ Divensa, leaving just 0.1% perfect. Texas A&M also upsets St. Mary's. By night's end, after St. Louis crushed Georgia, fewer than 700 brackets stood untouched, heading into Friday's games. A few users are still alive. But most perfect runs vanished in a flash.