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Martenzie Johnson, Andscape 8y

How did Friday's four upsets impact Women's Tournament Challenge?

Women's College Basketball, Syracuse Orange, Stanford Cardinal, Washington Huskies, Tennessee Lady Vols, South Carolina Gamecocks, Notre Dame Fighting Irish

Just how crazy were Friday's four upsets? In the Women's Tournament Challenge, only 0.00658 percent of brackets (15 total) had all four of Friday's winners advancing to the Elite Eight.

Here's a game-by-game rundown of how Friday's results impacted brackets:

No. 7 seed Tennessee 78, No. 3 seed Ohio State 62

In the night's second No. 7 upset, the Lady Vols (39.4 percent) proved many entries wrong. Lots of users overwhelmingly sided with the Buckeyes in this matchup; just 45.1 percent of brackets had the Lady Vols defeating the Buckeyes.

Just 10 percent of users predicted Tennessee would make it to the Elite Eight, with 36.9 percent expecting Ohio State to have made it that far (including 8.5 percent having OSU in the Final Four).

Tennessee will go on to face Syracuse in the Elite Eight.

No. 4 seed Stanford 90, No. 1 seed Notre Dame 84

The Cardinal are sure to bust up any remaining decent brackets with their upset over Notre Dame. Only 9 percent of users had Stanford making the Elite Eight, with only 0.5 percent expecting the Cardinal to win the national title game.

In this specific matchup, only 11 percent of users had the Cardinal upsetting the Fighting Irish.

Moving on to the next round, the Cardinal are favorites (65 percent), according to user brackets, over other Friday upset-winner Washington.

Nearly 85 percent of user brackets had Notre Dame making it to the Elite Eight, 64.3 percent to the Final Four, 38.3 percent to the national championship, and 8.3 percent had the Fighting Irish winning it all (second only to UConn's 66 percent).

Over 74,000 brackets (32.8 percent), including President Obama's, had UConn-Notre Dame as the national championship matchup.

No. 4 seed Syracuse 80, No. 1 seed South Carolina 72

Only 6 percent of brackets had Syracuse advancing to the Elite Eight.

About 9.27 percent of brackets had Syracuse defeating South Carolina in this Sweet 16 matchup.

But just 2.9 percent of brackets have Syracuse making it to the Final Four, which is only slightly higher than the 1 percent of brackets that have the Orange making it to the title game.

A large amount of brackets were disrupted in this upset; 86.2 percent of brackets had South Carolina playing in the Elite Eight, with 70.6 percent having them making it to the Final Four.

The Gamecocks had the third-highest percentage of brackets saying they would win the national title (7.1 percent), behind only Notre Dame and UConn.

No. 7 seed Washington 85, No. 3 seed Kentucky 72

Just 1.6 percent of brackets had Washington making it to the Elite Eight.

And 25.1 percent of brackets had Washington beating Kentucky to make it to the next round.

Just 0.1 percent of brackets had the Huskies winning the championship game.

Washington will go on to play Stanford in the Elite Eight, where 35.9 percent of brackets have the Huskies advancing to the Final Four.

On the other side, 28.5 percent of brackets had Kentucky advancing to the Elite Eight, though almost half (49.7 percent) of users had the Wildcats losing to Maryland in that round, but the Terrapins were upset by the Huskies in the round of 32.

President Obama's bracket

The President's bracket had Notre Dame in the national championship in his bracket, losing to top-seeded UConn. He has Ohio State in the Elite Eight, though he has the Buckeyes losing to an already-eliminated South Carolina.

He was 0-for-2 on eligible picks today (South Carolina, Notre Dame), with his total (530 points) in the 93rd percentile. 

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