Creating a perfect bracket is nearly impossible. It hasn’t happened yet, and the odds make it all but unattainable.
The men’s bracket challenge wiped out all perfect brackets before the end of the opening weekend. But there were still a handful remaining on the women’s side heading into the Sweet 16.
Are any of them still standing? Here’s what you need to know about the quest for a perfect bracket.
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No. 2 seed Stanford’s Sweet 16 loss to No. 3 seed NC State busted the one perfect bracket remaining for the 2024 NCAA women’s basketball tournament.
Four brackets across ESPN and Yahoo entered the Sweet 16 at 100% correct, but three of those picked No. 2 seed Notre Dame to beat No. 3 seed Oregon State. “Courtney’s COURT 2” stood alone at the top after the Beavers beat the Irish, but the prognosticator’s luck did not last much longer.
“Courtney’s COURT 2” did pick No. 1 South Carolina to take down No. 4 Indiana in the following game, keeping its streak alive. But the bracket predicted Stanford to make a run to the championship game — in reality, star Cameron Brink fouled out early in the fourth quarter and the Cardinal lost, 77-67, in…