Record-breaking perfect bracket busts at game 50 with Purdue’s OT win over Tennessee

After 50 matches of the 2019 NCAA tournament, the streak is over. There are no brackets that are ideal.
The temporarily famous”center road” bracket, which had accurately predicted that the first 49 games of March Madness, suffered its first loss in the second match of the Sweet 16 if 3-seed Purdue conquer 2-seed Tennessee in overtime.
The bracket was entered within our Capital One NCAA March Madness Bracket Challenge game by 40-year-old neuropsychologist Gregg Nigl, who was not even aware of the record-breaking series until NCAA.com called him Monday, after the second round of the tournament.
Check out our full interview with Nigl here.
Before this past year, the longest we’d ever seen a bracket go unblemished was 39 straight matches, which happened in 2017 (we describe why we’re so sure of the number below). Nigl’s”center road” bracket shattered this listing.

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