The longest perfect March Madness bracket ever (we think)

NCAA Digital has rolled up its sleeves to look back at major online games, bracket reporting at its own NCAA tournament bracket game data to determine who has the longest perfect bracket streak to open the NCAA tournament. We've found that Greg Nigl's 49-for-49 start -- just 14 games away from FULL PERFECTION -- is the longest. Before that, it was 39 straight.
Please note: This is the best reporting we can do -- we cannot track paper brackets, and our pre-2004 records are based on reporting from games that likely did not keep these records. But we had to start somewhere. Good luck with your 2021 NCAA tournament bracket.
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[@kas4243]

I swear they do this video every year

[@Rebel2332]

Hey content is content.

[@danielhoang289]

That's impossible because this bracket record was set in 2019, just 2 years ago

[@kas4243]

@@danielhoang289 yeah but they’ve done a lot of videos on it. Don’t mean to hate though

[@kellentyler5158]

Yep

[@lukefoster6285]

Not last year lol

[@lakersfan3269]

Flight picked a perfect bracket when the cameras weren’t on

[@jrjr3765]

lol

[@charleshulien9997]

It’s Larry from Twitter

[@jacksonenglish2918]

Underrated

[@doctoraids6120]

So inspirational

[@Owenschaefer]

Lol

[@MattSmith-ln9st]

I had a perfect bracket in 2020

[@logaming6998]

Same dude

[@littleprofessorluke1990]

In all of our dreams

[@coltbrennan8699]

Same I just didnt have the cameras on

[@fijicat2168]

no way same here

[@hmmm4304]

The first round was tough though

[@travisscott4303]

0:37 “The odds of a perfect bracket are inconceivably high”

[@loganmoore-246X_y]

All’s fun and games until someone make 9.2 quintillion different brackets

[@coolbeans2348]

I was thinking about that lol

[@ajfournier4182]

Not even close to enough

[@tylersellin8478]

Yeah how come nobody has never made a bot to put in almost all of the possible combinations?

[@jeffrey_jacobs]

@@tylersellin8478 because there’s multiple quintillion combinations

[@cohen_hartz]

Actually it's 9.2 quintillion different brackets

[@smittyyt4535]

This year is gonna be the year for me
Edit: it is not the year for me

[@carterweihe]

🧢

[@Dylan_Lino]

Last year I lost in the first game

[@dineromushroom1968]

@@Dylan_Lino Last year I lost before it started

[@wesleyspilly3087]

Don’t jinx it!!

[@kyleseageruberalles2222]

Remember to have more than one bracket lol

[@am-rh6ib]

i bet y’all picked ohio state in the first round

[@ANTMAN53824]

Nope

[@ANTMAN53824]

I still have a perfect bracket

[@ryanamburgy2791]

I had five brackets that chose ORU

[@Brandon-qd2lb]

No way that will be touched this year. You'll be lucky if you'll can get the first 32 right.

[@wesleyspilly3087]

Yeah, 3 years ago I think I had 29 out of the 32.

[@jadenn216]

you were right

[@damiensaalfrank7936]

This year is crazy

[@GrubWarp]

A lot of chalk in 2019

[@kungudoesthings1491]

THIS THE YEAR

[@gavinclark525]

Not for long, because I definitely have a perfect bracket. Ohio all the way baby!!

[@braq4231]

Oh wait o thought you meant Ohio st 💀

[@holdenterry3741]

Go blue

[@gavinclark525]

Going to update this after every game Ohio wins on there journey to ncaa champions, Bobcats> Cavaliers Keep doubting us baby!!

[@ryanamburgy2791]

Creighton: Nope

[@jadenn216]

@@braq4231 nah he meant Ohio like the 13 seed

[@jacob_coleman25]

My bracket never busted last year just sayin

[@jaiciappara1277]

I had Illinois winning it all and I had OSU going to the final 4

[@ArthurSanford3706]

You must have had a fun tournament last year

[@dyl2387]

Let’s gooooo

[@derekderek2570]

I feel like the camera turns off and this lady starts screaming at interns.

[@kxobi]

I’m on bracket 28/120B... I’m winning

[@tatestaggs7660]

Haha lol

[@tatestaggs7660]

I’ve done 26

[@kyleh6307]

I feel like if you created a software to make that many it would hit one year

[@shivenjoshi2451]

@@kyleh6307 Yea but that’s type of software would be extremely difficult as even if it put out a million brackets(which would most likely cause people to investigate it), it’s still nowhere even close to 120 billion

[@yomama9347]

Bro just ask dream to fill one out

[@HBOMB-ht5pm]

My bracket was perfect last year

[@fwbake]

I’m breaking this streak

[@brockbusa3912]

LeTs SeE iF We CoUlD ToP ThAt ThIs MaRcH

[@samgoodwin3627]

Anyone else here and there is no perfect bracket

[@412inmybandZ]

I was last in her eyes the whole time

[@emmettdavis415]

i didnt get any wrong in 2020

[@timshipp1141]

I had a perfect bracket in 2017 I just didn’t submit it

[@brayldy]

Wow too bad

[@Coal-RubL]

Tough luck

[@tatestaggs7660]

Fake

[@iantoner9423]

Crazy the game this guy broke his bracket on I had correct.

[@hbk_vic]

In 2018 I almost had a perfect first round😭 Virginia lost tho unfortunately.

[@jacobberenson1796]

me and my buddy ryan had them losing in the first round. he changed it to them winning then losing in the second round but i stayed with my gut and had them losing in the first round. I ended up winning my bracket "league"

[@hbk_vic]

@@jacobberenson1796 thats an awesome call fr! 2019 i called Virgina winning it all which they did so i won my bracket then

[@michealdubie4480]

I don’t wanna brag. But I have the perfect bracket this year

[@juthoad3600]

I am going to be the first person to ever get one right. @juthoadwins

[@rdog6474]

60/63 2 years ago

[@JSTPPodcast]

Bruh the record is 55

[@rudyschoettle956]

sam holtz did

[@torinoconnor4296]

Is this girl actually this happy or is it fake?

[@andrewr7982]

Wrong, my uncle had a perfect bracket in 1999.

[@hugeballs685]

happened to my buddy eric once

[@evdog3699]

a kid had a perfect bracket in 2015

[@aidanc1088]

No he didn’t

[@oliverbrubacher9608]

This video didnt age well lol nobody probably made it out of the 1st round

[@iantoner9423]

Yeah uhhh I had a perfect paper bracket before. Not that hard

[@gilbert4004]

Fake it’s in reverse

[@FTLNate]

i had a perfect bracket in 2016 and i... i thought it was normal to get that

[@kyleh6307]

Cap

[@FTLNate]

@@kyleh6307 I mean you don't gotta believe me but it is true

[@kyleh6307]

@@FTLNate how could you think that’s normal tho, no one has every gotten it before. Why didn’t you like share it on social media

[@FTLNate]

@@kyleh6307 because at the time i thought it was normal so i didn’t think it was important and in 2016 i was 11 and didn’t even have my first phone

[@sirjelly7046]

@@FTLNate man this is so believable I totally believe you 🥸

[@alecjlewis1]

Actually, There Was A Perfect Bracket In 2019

[@hairlessche3499]

Pray to Jesus today you will never regret it a relationship with Jesus is the only way to Heaven explicit rap is the music of the devil don’t listen to it

[@hairlessche3499]

@Plondue it does, but Christian rap goes even harder!