--- description: No remaining brackets survived the 16th-seeded University of Maryland-Baltimore County’s shock win over The University of Virginia. title: Every March Madness Bracket Has Officially Been Busted image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7e604222a6a96cc2/69892b3e7cdbac6a1dd5c545/march-madness-bracket.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Sports](/section/sports/) ## Sports Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [March Madness](/tag/march-madness/) ## March Madness Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Every March Madness Bracket Has Officially Been Busted by [Flora Carr](/author/flora-carr/) ## Flora Carr Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 19, 2018 11:51 AM CUT  K.J. Maura #11 and teammate Jourdan Grant #5 of the UMBC Retrievers celebrate their 74-54 victory over the Virginia Cavaliers during the first round of the 2018 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament at Spectrum Center on March 16, 2018 in Charlotte, North Carolina. K.J. Maura #11 and teammate Jourdan Grant #5 of the UMBC Retrievers celebrate their 74-54 victory over the Virginia Cavaliers during the first round of the 2018 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament at Spectrum Center on March 16, 2018 in Charlotte, North Carolina.Jared C. Tilton—Getty Images by [Flora Carr](/author/flora-carr/) ## Flora Carr Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 19, 2018 11:51 AM CUT Sorry about your bracket. After a series of major upsets in this year’s [NCAA men’s basketball tournament](http://www.thedrive.com/accelerator/19358/nascar-crew-has-ties-to-ncaa-basketball-cinderella-team "undefined"), not a single March Madness bracket remains un-busted. The final dagger in the heart of the hopeful was the 16th-seeded University of Maryland-Baltimore County’s (UMBC) shocking win over The University of Virginia on Friday. The NCAA [announced](https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/bracketiq/2018-03-17/last-perfect-bracket-busts-after-umbc-pulls-biggest-upset "undefined") Sunday that the UMBC win killed the 25 remaining perfect brackets filed online to a variety of platforms. Millions of brackets were submitted online to services such as Walt Disney, ESPN and Bleacher Report at the start of the tournament, and of the 25 left, all had earmarked Virginia as winners in their UMBC game. Virginia was a favorite among the 68 March Madness teams this year. The team’s loss to UMBC marked the first time a 1-seed has lost to a 16-seed in the opening round, ESPN [reports](http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/%5F/id/22829308/ncaa-tournament-sweet-16-field-contains-more-surprises-sure-things "undefined"). The UMBC upset also ruled out any overall winner for this year’s [Warren Buffett’s](http://time.com/money/5195356/warren-buffett-march-madness-2018-bracket-challenge/ "undefined") Berkshire Hathaway contest, which offers $1 million-a-year for life (and $2 million should home-state teams Creighton or Nebraska win, MarketWatch [reports](https://www.marketwatch.com/story/its-official-all-the-march-madness-brackets-have-been-busted-2018-03-18 "undefined")) for any of Buffet’s employees who correctly predicts all the winners for the first two rounds during March Madness. The competition was launched in 2014 and was originally open to the public. Sunday also saw further upsets, as the University of North Carolina, the defending champions, failed to make it to the Sweet 16. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5205140/march-madness-brackets/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5205140/march-madness-brackets/"},"headline":"Every March Madness Bracket Has Officially Been Busted","datePublished":"2018-03-19T11:51:24.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T19:41:16.522Z","description":"Better luck next year, everyone","url":"https://time.com/5205140/march-madness-brackets/","keywords":["March Madness","Basketball","NCAA","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7e604222a6a96cc2/69892b3e7cdbac6a1dd5c545/march-madness-bracket.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Flora Carr","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/flora-carr/"}],"articleSection":"Sports","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7e604222a6a96cc2/69892b3e7cdbac6a1dd5c545/march-madness-bracket.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"March Madness Bracket","caption":"March Madness Bracket","creditText":"Jared C. 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