Brackets, busted.
The handful of remaining perfect brackets in the NCAA Tournament busted out on Sunday, ending the hopes of millions against exceptionally long odds.
The final perfect brackets on Yahoo Sports and CBS Sports were shredded with Saturday's games. Top-seeded Florida's 77-75 win over two-time reigning national champion UConn continued the carnage on Sunday.
Duke's 89-66 win over Baylor left one remaining perfect bracket on ESPN's tracker and it didn't last long. That bracket imploded with Kentucky's 84-75 win over Illinois, creating 24.3 million imperfect brackets.
The Wildcats' win also killed off the last bracket of the 34 million on the NCAA’s platform.
Michigan's 91-79 win over Texas A&M on Saturday night shredded the final perfect Yahoo Sports bracket. Poor Shawno had been correct on every pick with his Grand Bracket until the fifth-seeded Wolverines sent the fourth-seeded Aggies home.
CBS Sports lost its last perfect bracket with Saturday night's games, including No. 6 seed BYU's two-point win over third-seeded Wisconsin and Texas Tech's 77-64 win over No. 11 seed Drake.
Creighton was listed as ESPN’s top bracket buster after its 89-75 win over Louisville in Thursday's first game, knocking out 13,339,089.
On the other end of the spectrum, ESPN reported that every pick was wrong on 30 of its brackets — a nearly impossible feat in its own right even if a contestant were trying to pick all losers.
In the world of office pools, one person who works for one of the companies Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway owns predicted the games well enough to win $1 million. Berkshire said Monday that the FlightSafety International employee correctly picked 31 of the 32 games in the opening round, including the first 29 games in a row. Eleven other people won $100,000 prizes in the companywide pool for Berkshire's 392,000 employees by picking 31 winners in the first round.
This year marks the first time a Berkshire employee has won the top prize, although Buffett's company has routinely been handing out $100,000 for the best bracket every year. Buffett tweaked the rules of the contest this year to make it easier for someone to win the million-dollar prize.
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Purdue forward Camden Heide (23) hangs onto the ball while colliding with McNeese State guard DJ Richards Jr. (2) during the first half in the second round of the NCAA college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 22, 2025, in Providence, R.I. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Clemson guard Jaeden Zackery, left, react after a loss to McNeese State in the first round of the NCAA college basketball tournament, Thursday, March 20, 2025, in Providence, R.I. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
NEW YORK (AP) — Sean Durzi scored 1:06 into overtime and the Utah Mammoth beat the New York Rangers 3-2 on Monday night for their second win in three games.
Dylan Guenther and Michael Carcone scored for Utah, and Karel Vejmelka had 22 saves.
Vincent Trocheck and Alexis Lafrenière scored goals, and Artemi Panarin and Mika Zibanejad each had two assists for the Rangers, who lost for the fourth time in five games (1-2-2). Igor Shesterkin stopped all nine shots he faced before he left with an apparent injury with 7 minutes remaining in the first period. Jonathan Quick replaced him and finished with 14 saves.
In the extra period, Durzi scored from the right doorstep off a pinpoint pass from Nick Schmaltz through traffic from the left circle.
Carcone tied the score 2-2 at 6:15 of the third as he drove toward the net and scored past Quick just before sliding into the goalie and knocking the net off its moorings.
Lafrenière got the Rangers on the scoreboard first, redirecting a pass from Mika Zibanejad in front for a power-play goal at 8:29 of the second period.
Guenther tied it 4:09 later, scoring on a rush as his first shot bounced off Quick's pad but he put the rebound past the goalie for his 21st of the season.
Trocheck gave the Rangers a 2-1 lead with their second power-play goal of the period as he redirected Artemi Panarin's point shot past Vejmelka with 3:24 remaining.
Shesterkin appeared to injure his leg when bent awkwardly with his skate on the ice as he attempted to avoid contact with Mammoth forward JJ Peterka, who was on the edge of the crease. Peterka did not appear to make contact with Shesterkin, who lay down in the net in pain while he was attended to by a trainer and then helped off the ice.
Quick came on to make the first in-game goalie substitution in the Rangers' 44 games this season.
After the game, the Mammoth announced they traded defenseman Juuso Välimäki to Carolina for future considerations.
Mammoth: At Ottawa on Wednesday night.
Rangers: Host Buffalo on Thursday night.
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CORRECTS TO GOAL MADE BY VINCENT TROCHEK - New York Rangers left wing Artemi Panarin (10), left wing Alexis Lafrenière (13) and Adam Fox, center, celebrate Vincent Trochek's goal during the first period of an NHL hockey game Washington Capitals, Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)
New York Rangers left wing Alexis Lafrenière (13) skates with the puck during the third period of an NHL hockey game against the Washington Capitals, Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)
New York Rangers center Vincent Trocheck (16) skates with the puck during the third period of an NHL hockey game against the Washington Capitals, Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)
Utah Mammoth goaltender Karel Vejmelka makes a save in the second period of an NHL hockey game against the New York Islanders, Thursday, Jan. 1, 2026, in Elmont, N.Y. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)
Utah Mammoth right wing Dylan Guenther (11) reacts after scoring his third goal of the game in the third period of an NHL hockey game against the New York Islanders, Thursday, Jan. 1, 2026, in Elmont, N.Y. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)
