In case your March Insanity 2025 bracket has already been busted, you have got plenty of firm.
In reality, in case your bracket continues to be alive, that’s an enormous victory in and of itself.
In keeping with the NCAA’s official March Insanity Males’s Basketball account on X, solely 0.0938% of brackets stay alive after a gap day of motion and upsets.
How did we get right here?
McNeese State’s 69-67 upset of No. 5 Clemson did many of the heavy lifting early within the day, leaving simply 4.48% of brackets unblemished — simply 22.41% of pickers chosen the Twelfth-seeded Cowboys to win their opener.
That quantity dropped even additional with No. 6 BYU — led by Tater Tot inheritor Richie Saunders himself — bouncing No. 11 VCU to depart simply 2.61% of brackets alive.
Wins by Gonzaga, Tennessee and Arkansas left lower than 1% of brackets — 0.6987 — alive, if understandably not properly.
Texas A&M and Drake despatched that to below 1 / 4 of a p.c, with UCLA, St. John’s, Michigan and Texas Tech closing out Day 1 by leaving simply 0.0938% of March Insanity brackets unblemished.
In the event you’re feeling down about going bust early: don’t.
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The percentages of really having an ideal bracket are 1 in 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 — or simply over 9.2 quintillion. Even in the event you’re an enormous school basketball fan with a can’t-miss technique for filling out the sheet, your probabilities enhance to only 1 in 120.2 billion.
That being stated, in the event you’re within the below 1% p.c of parents with a bracket nonetheless going, there’s no want to purchase a lottery ticket — you’ve already acquired one.
