After 50 games of the 2019 NCAA tournament, the series is over. There are no brackets that are ideal.
The briefly famous”center road” bracket, which had correctly predicted that the first 49 games of March Madness, suffered its first loss at the second game of the Sweet 16 when 3-seed Purdue beat 2-seed Tennessee in overtime.
The bracket was entered in our Capital One NCAA March Madness Bracket Challenge match by 40-year-old neuropsychologist Gregg Nigl, who wasn’t even conscious of the record-breaking streak until NCAA.com called him Monday, following the second round of the championship.
Have a look at our full interview with Nigl here.
Before this year, the longest we had ever seen a bracket go unblemished was 39 straight matches, which happened in 2017 (we describe why we’re so sure of that number below). Nigl’s”centre road” bracket shattered this record.
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