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Zero perfect brackets remain after the first round of March Madness 2022

You know, usually, it takes a little longer for everyone’s brackets to spontaneously self-combust. This writer, for one, who definitely didn’t pick his bracket on an “eeny, meenie, miny, moe” basis, thought that his selections would last longer than the first weekend.

Oh well, you live, and you don’t learn.

Two fateful and exciting days of the 2022 Men’s NCAA tournament are in the books. The beautiful Peacocks of Saint Peter’s humiliated Kentucky. Consensus national title favorite Gonzaga flirted with disaster. And in Pittsburgh, Illinois became the first extremely fortunate team to advance to the next round despite laying a massive egg.

There will always be shocks and bracket busters. But I can’t say it’s a good look at our collective prognosticating ability that zero perfect brackets remain. Anywhere. Not on ESPN. Not on Yahoo. Not on CBS. And not even on the NCAA website proper.

Again, zero perfect brackets. Nada. Zilch. After only 36 total games (including the First Four).

This March was supposed to be different. One of us, one of the millions of us, was supposed to go all the way. Not one got lucky. Instead, we all indeed look like Nick Young right now. Oh well. To next March, it is.

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