Building off our most recent posts: Bracketology: Five Days Remaining, Bracketology: Four Days Remain, and Bracketology: Three Days Remain, we gave our updated brackets along with a few steps for Bubble teams to take during their conference tournament play to ensure entry into the NCAA Tournament. Here we primarily focused on Indiana, Iowa, Illinois, Ohio State, and Michigan…
Now that the field of 68 has been set, the next question is who will be lucky enough to win the NCAA Tournament? This has been the year of parity as we have seen a bevy of teams fall from the #1 ranking throughout the season. Also, this season features the most number of losses…
Now that the conference tournaments have wrapped up, we are left to identify who is in and who is out. Many analysts use RPI, gut feelings, and perceived “key wins” to help them identify a top 36 team “At-Large” seeding. Others such as Lunardi, Massey, and Colley, incorporate metrics observed based on wins, points, locations,…
As all the power conferences play their bulk of the games, we start to see the final shuffle of teams take place; each jockeying for one of the precious 68 spots in the NCAA tournament. Over the past day, no new major upsets took place other than University of Alabama Birmingham’s loss to Western Kentucky.…
With Selection Sunday only four (FOUR!) days away, we have witnessed some amazing upsets in several conferences. Dominant Valparaiso was stunned by University of Wisconsin – Green Bay in the Horizon League as the Phoenix marched their way into the NCAA playoffs for the first time in 20 years. Monmouth was upended in the Metro…
As the regular season comes to a close today with Big Ten action, we start to turn our focus to the conference tournaments. In this edition, we take a look at all 32 conferences and identify the current state of the NCAA tournaments, as defined by our ranking algorithms. Conferences are broken down as follows:…
After yet another chaotic Saturday in the NCAA, we witnessed seven top 10 seeds come away with a 3-4 record. Utah (23-7; 12-5 Pac-12) continued its strong run with a six point victory over Arizona (22-7; 10-6 Pac-12). Virginia (22-6; 11-5 ACC) bounced back from its loss to Miami (23-5; 12-4 ACC) to gain a…
After another three days, the season returned to its wild form as Top 10 teams went a combined 3-3. #5 Xavier exorcised its demons against #1 Villanova in a 90-83 win on Wednesday, February 24th. On the same night, #9 Arizona dropped a 72-75 contest in Colorado. The big game of that night was the…
The NCAA postseason starts on Tuesday with the Atlantic Sun Conference and Patriot League tournaments tipping off. To date, only the seedings for the Atlantic Sun tournament have been determined. The North Florida Ospreys (21-10) finished atop the Atlantic Sun for a second year in a row with a 10-4 conference record, finishing two games…
Another 3 days, another 214 NCAA Division I Men’s basketball games played. This time around, the NCAA Top 10 teams have a relatively standard half-week as they compiled a 6-2 record. The two losses coming from #10 West Virginia (20-7) losing to #3 Oklahoma (21-5), 62-76, in Morgantown, WV on the 20th; and from #6…
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