It's over! How every last perfect bracket busted in the 2022 NCAA men's tournament
There will be no perfect men's bracket this year.
With No. 11 Iowa State's 59-54 upset win over No. 6 LSU, the final perfect bracket of the 2022 basketball tournament — — was busted.
It took 28 games to eliminate the last perfect bracket. Entering Friday, there were 192 perfect brackets across the major games, , ;and
UPDATES: We've been tracking all perfect brackets
Here's how many perfect brackets remained after each game:
- No. 7 Ohio State 54, No. 10 Loyola 41 — 91 perfect brackets
- No. 2 Auburn 80, No. 15 Jacksonville State 61 — 81
- No. 3 Texas Tech 97, No. 14 Montana State 62 — 63
- No. 3 Purdue 78, No. 14 Yale 56 — 47
- No. 2 Villanova 80, No. 15 Delaware 60 — 42
- No. 10 Miami 68, No. 7 USC 68 — 18
- No. 11 Notre Dame 78, No. 6 Alabama 64 — 4
- No. 6 Texas 81, No. 11 Virginia Tech 73 — 2
- No. 2 Duke 78, No. 15 Cal State Fullerton 61 — 2
- No. 4 Illinois 54, No. 13 Chattanooga 53 — 1
- No. 1 Arizona 87, No. 16 Wright State 70 — 1
- No. 11 Iowa State 59, No. 6 LSU 54 — Zero
This marks the second year in a row the chase for perfection ended on the second day of the first round. But in 2019, Gregg Nigl correctly picked the first 49 games.
