ESPN
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The ESPN men's Tournament Challenge began with 20,056,273 brackets.
After one day and 16 games, there were 658 perfect brackets remaining.
95.8% of brackets were no longer perfect after just four games.
Princeton, Furman and Princeton upset the defending national champion UCLA in 1996.
The loss, paired with Arizona, hurt many people's title picks -- 2.56 million brackets had either the Boilermakers or Wildcats cutting down the nets. Purdue's loss was also the last blow for perfect brackets. BRACKETS BUSTED pic.twitter.com/UQjosDoEpy— ESPN (@espn) March 18, 2023.
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