We’re monitoring all video games, good brackets within the 2026 NCAA event

We’ve began monitoring good brackets going again to 2014 within the males’s event. Each March, we hope to see historical past made and see a bracket go 63 for 63 in choosing the winner of every March Madness recreation.

The odds of that occuring should not nice. One in 9.2 quintillion, actually — for those who’re flipping a coin for every recreation.

We consider the longest good begin for the boys’s event is 49 video games, when Gregg Nigl of Columbus, Ohio, went 49 for 49 to begin the 2019 males’s event. That means Nigl picked each single recreation proper by the primary weekend, when solely 16 groups remained. Only when Purdue beat Tennessee within the Sweet 16 did the run finish.

Here are the final stands from different years:

2025

Men’s brackets remained good till No. 3 Kentucky topped No. 6 Illinois within the second spherical on recreation 43 on Sunday — the very best run since 2019. The final bracket, referred to as “#RoadToPerfection” was competing in ESPN’s recreation. Women’s brackets lasted even longer into the Elite Eight, when UCLA beat LSU on Game No. 58.

2024

No 15 or 16 seeds gained a recreation this yr, however No. 14 Oakland, No. 13 Yale, No. 12 James Madison and THREE No. 11 seeds did. That all meant the ultimate good bracket busted on Game 31 as No. 8 Utah State defeated No. 9 TCU. The girls’s run lasted till a formidable Game 51, when No. 3 NC State beat No. 2 Stanford.

2023

The good males’s bracket went out early on Game 25 when No. 16 Fairleigh Dickinson surprised No. 1 Purdue, following 2018 UMBC as the one 16 seed to beat a No. 1 in males’s event historical past. For girls’s, No. 8 Ole Miss’ upset of No. 1 Stanford on the fortieth recreation ended the run.

2022

The good males’s brackets lasted to recreation No. 28, similar to in 2021. No. 15 Saint Peter’s upset No. 2 Kentucky, giving the event its second consecutive season of a 15-over-2 stunner. On the ladies’s facet, the ESPN bracket “Nathan B!!!” obtained the primary 35 proper however reached its finish when No. 2 Texas beat No. 7 Utah.

2021

Perfect brackets lasted by 28 video games, a a lot shorter run than in 2019 with Nigl’s 49. No. 15 Oral Roberts’ upset of No. 2 Ohio State decimated brackets, as did different upsets by No. 12 Oregon State and No. 13 North Texas. After the primary day, the remaining 100+ good brackets shrunk down from there, hitting zero when No. 10 Maryland beat No. 7 UConn.

2019

As talked about above, we consider this yr holds the present report of 49, lasting into the Sweet 16.

2018

No good NCAA bracket lasted by the primary spherical on Friday night time, due to the historic 16-1 upset of UMBC over Virginia. Of the hundreds of thousands of brackets we tracked, 25 have been good by the primary 28 video games of the event, however UMBC’s win in recreation No. 29 knocked all of them out.

2017

We noticed an unimaginable 39 video games picked to begin the event, a quantity that was the best recorded till 2019. The record-setting bracket, entered in Yahoo’s bracket recreation, was the one bracket to make it previous 37 video games unscathed, and managed to achieve 39 straight appropriate picks earlier than Iowa State fell wanting a comeback towards Purdue and handed the bracket its first lack of the event.

2016

The longest anybody went this yr was 25 video games. With Stephen F. Austin’s win over West Virginia on Friday night time, the final remaining good NCAA event bracket busted. A 15-2 upset (Middle Tennessee over Michigan State) made this a tricky yr for brackets.

2015

This was one other high yr, as one bracket within the ESPN on-line bracket recreation picked the primary 34 video games appropriately, according to a story by ESPN senior writer Darren Rovell. ESPN stated in 2016 that its 2015 bracket was the very best begin to a event it had on report in 18 years of its recreation.

2014 (and earlier than)

Before 2017, the longest good bracket streak tracked was 36, in response to Yahoo! Sports. In 2014, Brad Binder went 36 for 36 to start the tournament. Yahoo! Sports reported that Binder’s bracket was the only time it had a perfect bracket go into the second round in its 18-plus years of hosting a game.