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No. 15 Saint Peter’s pulls off historic March Madness upset over Kentucky
The Saint Peter’s Peacocks are simply the tenth staff in March Insanity historical past to drag off an upset as a No. 15 seed.
WASHINGTON — St. Peter’s has delivered the fourth upset of the NCAA event and it was the largest one but.
The No. 15 seed Saint Peter’s Peacocks beat No. 2 seed Kentucky Wildcats 85-79 in time beyond regulation on Thursday night time within the first spherical of the boys’s event.
Saint Peter’s, which is positioned in Jersey Metropolis, New Jersey, is a part of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Convention (MAAC) and are making their first event look since 2011. Saint Peter’s defeated Monmouth 60-54 to seize their fourth MAAC Championship and punched their March Insanity massive dance ticket.
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The Peacocks are simply the tenth staff to drag off an upset as a No. 15 seed. Whereas the March Insanity feat is tremendous uncommon, there was one other 15-over-2 upset final yr when Oral Roberts shocked everybody by beating Ohio State.
There have been three different upsets earlier within the day, together with No. 12 seed New Mexico State upsetting No. 5 seed Connecticut 70-63.
Even earlier than that, brackets had been fairly busted by the 2 upsets from earlier Thursday afternoon. After Richmond’s 67-63 upset over Iowa and Michigan’s 75-63 upset win over Colorado State, there have been simply 1.76% of excellent brackets remaining in NCAA’s Bracket Problem Recreation.
Saint Peter’s historic upset will certainly knock much more brackets out.
What are the percentages of an ideal bracket?
In line with NCAA.com, when you had been to easily guess or flip a coin for every matchup, the percentages of an ideal NCAA bracket are 1 in 9,223,372,036,854,775,808.
Nonetheless, NCAA.com additionally notes that the percentages are extra like 1 in 120.2 billion, if the individual making the bracket takes into consideration data about which groups are higher and event historical past.
It is believed that the closest anybody has gotten to an ideal bracket occurred simply three years in the past.
Throughout the 2019 event, an Ohio man accurately guessed all of the video games going into the Candy 16, in response to NCAA.com. However his streak of 49 appropriate picks was ended when Purdue beat Tennessee 99-94 in time beyond regulation of the second sport within the Candy 16.
Final yr, it took simply 28 video games for there to be no extra excellent brackets.
