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Tournament Challenge: Xavier, Cincinnati losses wreak more bracket havoc

Here are some takeaways from the late set of games:

  • Of the top 11 teams picked to win the championship, six (Virginia, Michigan State, North Carolina, Arizona, Xavier, Cincinnati) failed to reach the Sweet 16.

  • 3 brackets out of 17.3 million got 15 of 16 Round of 32 games correct (none got all 16 correct) – 62,559 incorrectly predicted all 16 games.

  • Of 17.3 million Tournament Challenge brackets, 5,969 entries correctly predicted No. 5 Kentucky, No. 11 Loyola-Chicago, No. 7 Nevada and No. 9 Kansas State making the Sweet 16 out of the South.

  • 191,342 (1.1 percent) of the 17.3 million Tournament Challenge brackets called the Sweet 16 matchup of No. 11 Loyola-Chicago and No. 7 Nevada.

  • 31.1 percent (5,384,973) of brackets predicted that No. 1 UVA, No. 2 Cincinnati, No. 3 Tennessee and No. 4 Arizona would advance to the Sweet 16 out of the South.

  • 81.5 percent of brackets picked Xavier to make the Sweet 16, 47.5 percent the Elite Eight, 21.6 percent the Final Four, 8.2 percent the final and 3.5 percent to win it all.

  • Just 3.8 percent of entries correctly predicted that No. 9 Florida State would square off against No. 4 Gonzaga in the Sweet 16.

  • 77.4 percent of brackets picked No. 2 Cincinnati to make the Sweet 16, 53.04 percent to the Elite Eight, 13.6 percent the Final Four, 6.24 percent the final and 2.54 percent to win it all.

  • Percentage who picked these Sweet 16 teams to advance to the Elite Eight: No. 7 Nevada, 3.1 percent; No. 7 Texas A&M, 2.4 percent; No. 5 Clemson, 6.8 percent; No. 9 Florida State, 2.3 percent; No. 5 West Virginia: 10.5 percent.

 

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