These are the most popular bracket picks — and how they performed

These are the teams fans picked most often to win the NCAA men's basketball championship, according to millions of NCAA brackets in the Bracket Challenge Game, compared to the actual national champion.

Start your 2021 NCAA tournament bracket here:

[HuskerNinja]

Virginia: *Picked to win the 2018 title in 16.5 percent of brackets*

UMBC: *I'm about to end this man's whole career*

[jalenwalker]

March madness i love watching your YouTube videos

[aaronballer]

I was part of the 5.98 percent that picked Virginia to win in 2019

[stevenhamann]

3:39 except for me... i still had a terrible bracket with no thought into it but i picked that

[misterjay]

Without even watching the video, I have to say just because a pick is popular doesn't mean that pick will win it all. For example, Duke was the most popular pick to win it all back in 2019 and look what happened. They lost in the Elite Eight to Michigan State and Duke should have lost to UCF back in the Round of 32 that year.

[christophersleight]

Jayhawk fan here. I have never been as blown away by being DOMINATED by another Team than by loses to Villanova and Oregon.
The Jayhawks has good teams, but when they played those teams it looked like Men against boys.
Very Humbling.
(I don't like the cardboard people, at all. I don't believe there are "Super Spreader" events.)
Folks whoever you follow, I hope you have a Great Tournament.
Thanks, greetings from Colorado Springs Colorado, Christopher.

[brianrawlings]

I picked Wisconsin to beat Kentucky that year 😂

[ccboi]

Never choose the heavily favorite. Gonzaga not winning it this year.

[jacksonenglish]

I got duke and Wisconsin in 2015 right and I was 9 so

[thelivingmiracle]

Can there be a video made on how to increase your chances of correctly picking the Elite 8 teams?

[calebos]

Teams in the Final 4 of the 2023 tourney:

UConn: 2.4%
Miami: 0.5%
San Diego State: 0.3%
Florida Atlantic: 0.1%

this is wild

[joeyh]

Gonzaga is gonna be like 50% this year 😂

[rubikscube]

2:21 who else is in the 2.36% with me?😏😏😏

[tomersalamon]

When do u have to submit ur bracket by?

[skins]

We aren’t gonna talk about Virginia losing to umbc

Talks about Michigan state losing -_-

[DanO]

The Greatest Sporting Event in the World.

[ryanmele]

Gonzaga at least has the elite 8 this year they got an easy draw with Creighton and Virginia

[javidl]

Gonzaga is gonna crumble under the pressure

[lorenzobartalini]

I picked Oklahoma State to win it all over Gonzaga. I thought that if I was going to win, I need to go bold.

[CarsonClaws]

Gonzaga is gonna lose in elite 8 to Iowa