Can you have too many locks? Well, that’s a dumb question; obviously you can have too many locks. If we gave locks to, say, 100 teams, then, yeah, that’s too many. But from a standpoint of practicality, how many locks can you actually have? We ask this because this week’s Bubble Watch adds a wholeContinue reading “Bauer’s Bubble Watch: 3/8/21”
Author Archives: DJ Bauer
Bauertology: 3/7/21
One week away until Selection Sunday. March Madness is fast approaching. Conference tournaments have already been a riot, and a handful have already declared a winner—congrats to Liberty (ASUN) and Morehead State (Ohio Valley) on wrapping up the first two automatic bids of 2021. More madness is sure to come in the following days. StartingContinue reading “Bauertology: 3/7/21”
Bauertology: 3/5/21
Bauertology on a Friday. That must mean we are less than two weeks away from Selection Sunday. Heck, we’re less than two weeks away from the start of the NCAA Tournament with the First Four on Thursday, March 18. It is almost the best time of the year. Today’s bracket doesn’t see too many changesContinue reading “Bauertology: 3/5/21”
Bauertology: 3/3/21
This is March. March 3, to be exact. For the last month, I’ve been posting my bracket projections on Wednesdays and Saturdays, but we’re changing that up for the homestretch. If you’d like to take a look at the planned posting schedule for March leading up to Selection Sunday, make sure to check out thisContinue reading “Bauertology: 3/3/21”
Bauer’s Bubble Watch: 3/1/21
This is March. What—you were expecting anything else for an introduction? What more do you need? OK, this is March: the month home to the NCAA Tournament, a yearly phenomenon in which 68 teams are selected to a single-elimination bracket with the title of national champion on the line. Only one team can win it; theContinue reading “Bauer’s Bubble Watch: 3/1/21”
Bauertology: 2/27/21
We’re so close. This, ladies and gentlemen, is the final bracket of February. Two days from now, we will be diving head-first into the greatest month of them all, home to buzzer-beaters, upsets and the magic that makes college basketball worth watching: March. And although we’re only about two weeks removed from Selection Sunday, theContinue reading “Bauertology: 2/27/21”
Bauertology: 2/24/21
A wild weekend brings some major changes to the bracket! A couple teams on a sharp decline (Texas Tech, Missouri) while others have been on the rise (North Carolina) and one sneaky team has snuck its way onto the bubble and into the bracket with the latest win (Duke). Maybe the blue bloods aren’t deadContinue reading “Bauertology: 2/24/21”
Bauer’s Bubble Watch: 2/22/21
There’s no doubt that college basketball is a wild, wild sport. The nature of the game is more conducive to dramatic finishes and unbelieve upsets than any other athletic competition. Momentum, mentality, and the ebb and flow of on and off nights are key in figuring out the formula to the madness, and even whenContinue reading “Bauer’s Bubble Watch: 2/22/21”
Bauertology: 2/20/21
And so the countdown begins. We are 22 days out from Selection Sunday and 26 days out from the first NCAA Tournament action since 2019. Boy, does it feel good to be back. As we enter the homestretch, brackets may become more frequent (I’m thinking three a week once we’re in March), and differences betweenContinue reading “Bauertology: 2/20/21”
Bauertology: 2/17/21
This is the first Bauertology bracket to be released since the selection committee’s top 16 preview show on Saturday, so many of the changes you will see in today’s projection are reflections of what we learned from the reveal. The changes at the top are reflective of the committee’s top 16 teams (adjusted for theContinue reading “Bauertology: 2/17/21”