After 50 games of the 2019 NCAA championship, the streak is over. There aren’t any brackets that are perfect.
The briefly famous”center road” bracket, which had accurately predicted that the very first 49 games of March Madness, suffered its first loss in the second match 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, that was not even aware of the record-breaking series until NCAA.com called him Monday, after the second round of this tournament.
Check out our interview with Nigl here.
Earlier this past year, the longest we had ever seen a mount go unblemished was 39 straight games, which occurred in 2017 (we describe why we’re so sure of that amount below). Nigl’s”centre road” bracket shattered this record.
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