Millions of NCAA brackets were entered into the Capital One Bracket Challenge Game this year, but after Villanova’s win in the title game, only one took home the crown.
That bracket would be Che 3. Take a look:
The bracket picked 51 of 63 games correctly, for a pick percentage of 80.95.
One thing jumps out right away from that picture —the bracket only got one game wrong in the entirety of the bottom half (the West and South regions). That game would be 7-seed Texas A&M’s 86-65 upset over 2-seed UNC.
However, like 99.88 percent of all BCG brackets, ‘Che 3’ did not predict Loyola’s magical run to the Final Four, making it the first since 2013 to win the BCG without predicting a perfect Final Four.
Here's a breakdown of the winning bracket every year since 2011:
| FIRST ROUND | SECOND ROUND | SWEET 16 |
ELITE EIGHT |
FINAL FOUR |
CHAMP. | TOTAL | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 27 | 24 | 24 | 24 | 32 | 32 | 163 |
| 2017 | 28 | 26 | 24 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 174 |
| 2016 | 25 | 22 | 28 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 171 |
| 2015 | 25 | 30 | 28 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 179 |
| 2014 | 25 | 22 | 24 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 167 |
| 2013 | 22 | 24 | 28 | 24 | 32 | 32 | 162 |
| 2012 | 23 | 24 | 28 | 24 | 32 | 32 | 175 |
| 2011 | 25 | 20 | 20 | 16 | 32 | 32 | 145 |
