Got a busted bracket? Losses by Virginia, Arizona ravaged NCAA Tournament brackets

That didn’t take long.

Roughly three hours after the men’s NCAA Tournament began, we saw the first big upset. Furman, the 13th seed in the South Region got a steal and three-pointer in the dying seconds and beat Virginia 68-67.

Unsurprisingly, CBS Sports’ Kevin Harlan had a great call of the Cavaliers’ careless turnover and JP Pegues’ three-pointer with 2 seconds to play.

“Did we just see what we think we just saw? Wow!” Harlan said.

That’s a classic call from one of the best broadcasters in sports.

ESPN’s Tournament Challenge game shows 81.7% of the people who filled out a bracket picked Virginia to win the game. That means just 18.3% of those playing still had a perfect bracket.

Heck, 52.1% of those playing had Virginia winning in the Round of 32. Instead, the Cavaliers will be watching Furman.

The number of perfect brackets thinned even more when second-seeded Arizona lost to Princeton 59-55. ESPN’s data shows 93.4% of people picked the Wildcats to win the game.

As of early Thursday evening, only 18,078 perfect brackets remained in ESPN’s game. That’s out of 20,038,195 entries.

At Yahoo’s game, just 0.06% of the brackets were unblemished.

The NCAA also has a tournament bracket game, and it reported only 10.67% of users still had a perfect bracket after two games were played in the entire tournament (Maryland beat West Virginia in the first game Thursday).

After Princeton stunned Arizona, that number fell to 0.065%. That’s a whole lot of busted brackets. It’s (March) Madness.

And to think, things looked so promising when you looked at your bracket this morning, right?