Tournament bracket leaks during Selection Sunday, NCAA 'looking into it'
Not everyone could bear the extra hour added to this year's Selection Sunday.
While the folks at CBS took their time going through the March Madness matchups, someone managed to get his or her hands on the full bracket, and made it available to the entire world.
Twitter user @RICHIE leaked the bracket, and correctly nailed down all four regions, but eventually deleted the revealing tweet.
Here, however, is what it looked like:
SPOILER ALERT: Here's the entire leaked bracket. #MarchMadness pic.twitter.com/y8CnzK3eBM
— Mike Sullivan (@MikeSullivan) March 13, 2016
The NCAA released a brief statement about the blunder:
NCAA releases a statement about the bracket leak: pic.twitter.com/qnYlyWFn04
— Nicole Auerbach (@NicoleAuerbach) March 14, 2016
Meanwhile, the rest of the country rejoiced as CBS continued to drag out the show:
Bracket leak guy is the hero America needed
— Dan Wolken (@DanWolken) March 13, 2016
So who at CBS had enough of this and decided to leak the bracket? To that person, America says: THANK YOU.
— Jeff Potrykus (@jaypo1961) March 13, 2016
When your selection show is on pace to wrap up Friday, the bracket has no choice but to leak itself.
— Joe Fortenbaugh (@JoeFortenbaugh) March 13, 2016
I'd watch a two-hour show on how this NCAA bracket got leaked.
— Bruce Feldman (@BruceFeldmanCFB) March 13, 2016
I'll vote for whoever can make Selection Sunday great again. 🙀
— Kelley Bozeman (@UKKelleyB) March 13, 2016
CBS should at least show an In Memoriam segment of everyone who’s died while waiting for the bracket reveal.
— Dan Rubenstein (@DanRubenstein) March 13, 2016
HEADLINES
- Riley's big 2nd half lifts No. 25 Illinois over Maryland Eastern Shore
- Kaufman-Renn leads No. 6 Purdue to rout of Marshall
- Mitchell leads No. 18 Cincinnati in rout of Georgia Tech
- No. 15 Marquette beats Georgia in the Bahamas behind Joplin's 29 points
- Davis leads No. 10 UNC past Hawaii, moves into 4th on all-time scoring list