Bijan Robinson One Of The Incredibly Few Who Has A Perfect NCAA Tournament Bracket After Day One

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There is an incredibly small group of people that will wake up on Friday and still have a perfect NCAA Tournament bracket following the first full day of action. Atlanta Falcons running back Bijan Robinson is one of those people as he somehow managed to go 16-for-16 on Thursday.

Having a perfect bracket after day one would be ridiculous even if each game went chalk, but given some of the upsets we witnessed on Thursday, Robinson being flawless is outrageous. 

All three 11 seeds that played on Thursday won with Duquesne, NC State, and Oregon each pulling off upsets. The biggest upset of day one came courtesy of 14-seed Oakland picking off Kentucky 80-76, and Robinson somehow picked that game as well.

According to ESPN's Tournament Challenge, over 22 million brackets suffered at least one loss on Thursday with just 1,825 brackets remaining perfect. 

Robinson should proudly hang his hat on surviving day one with the perfect bracket, but him, along with every other owner of a perfect bracket, will meet reality sooner rather than later.

The former Longhorn star picked Texas to win it all, which is an incredibly unlikely scenario. He also has 15-seed Western Kentucky stunning Marquette on Friday along with 12-seed Grand Canyon, 11-seed NC State, and 7-seed Washington State all making it to the Elite Eight.

You have to be different to win your bracket pools, but Robinson may have jumped the ship with some of these picks.

It'll be a fun sweat for Robinson all day Friday with the first game of the day being an 8-9 game between FAU and Northwestern, which Robinson picked the Big Ten squad and not the boys from Boca Raton.

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