With two games in the books on Friday, we’re now down to 7,659 perfect brackets -- or .06 percent -- out of the field of approximately 13 million.
In the first 10-seed-versus-7-seed matchup in the 2016 NCAA tournament, No. 10 Syracuse beat No. 7 Dayton. The Orange-Flyers matchup was the closest-picked round of 64 game, with Dayton getting the slight majority of picks (51.8 percent).
The Orange were picked to win in 48.2 percent of brackets. Just 4.2 percent have Syracuse going to the Sweet 16; 2.0 percent have Syracuse making the Elite Eight; and .09 percent have the Orange advancing to the Final Four. Dayton, despite being a slight round of 64 favorite over Syracuse in brackets, wasn’t picked to advance as far as Syracuse after the round of 32; only 3.7 percent of brackets had Dayton going to the Sweet 16; and only 1.5 percent had the Flyers making the Elite Eight.
No. 2 Villanova dispatched No. 15 UNC-Asheville in Friday’s second game. The Wildcats were picked in 96.5 percent of brackets. Overall, 77.9 percent of brackets have Nova advancing to the Sweet 16; 47.2 percent have it going to the Elite Eight; 12.1 percent have it making the Final Four; 6.5 percent have the Wildcats playing in the championship game; and 2.6 percent have them winning the title (the eighth-most popular title pick).
The President correctly picked both of these games, running his current record to 14-for-18 (83rd percentile).