Article: Busted Brackets: Just 45 Entrants Remain Perfect after Day One in Million-Pizza Bracket Challenge from Papa John's.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Less than 1 percent survive first 16 games with a perfect bracket - results serve as barometer for office pools across the country

Why does the annual big college basketball tournament capture the imagination of our nation? A quick look at the Papa John's (NASDAQ:PZZA) Perfect Bracket Challenge at sportingnews.com provides the answer:

--Nearly 90,000 people entered the Papa John's Perfect Bracket Challenge online at SportingNews.com. The challenge was simple - if anyone fills out a perfect bracket, correctly choosing the winner in all 63 games, Papa John's will provide 1,000,000 pizzas for all the entrants to split, and the contestant ...

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