Category Archives: Bracketology

Y’all ready? The Selection Show is under half an hour away. We will soon learn which 68 teams will be selected to participate in the NCAA Tournament. For the first time in a long time, I feel pretty darn good about which 68 are in. It was just last year that I was pulling myContinue reading “Bauertology: 3/15/26 (FINAL)”

Aha! Surprised ya, didn’t I? A new Bauertology bracket and seed list on a Thursday instead of a Friday—practically unheard of! Well, there’s a reason: I’m hardly going to have any time for bracket-building today, as my real world job may require me to work for about 14 hours straight. Plus, it seems a bitContinue reading “Bauertology: 3/12/26”

Regular season? I hardly know ‘er! From here on out, it’s nothing but postseason, baby. Five conference tournaments have already crowned a champion. Twenty-six more need to do so between right now and the unveiling of the final 68-team field at 4 p.m. MT on Sunday, March 15. Savor these precious finals days; they’ll flyContinue reading “Bauertology: 3/9/26”

Welcome to the final weekend of the regular season, y’all. Selection Sunday is just nine—yes, nine—days away. It is truly the homestretch out here on the bracketology front. Most of the field, pending automatic bids, is already established. Only a couple big swings in results from here on out can really shake up the wayContinue reading “Bauertology: 3/6/26”

Could someone remind me what month it is? This is March, the single greatest month of the entire year, where the college basketball season reaches its climax. Conference tournaments, Bubble Watches, bid thieves, Selection Sunday, March Madness, brackets, upsets, comebacks, buzzer beaters—inject it all into my veins immediately, please and thank you! I even gotContinue reading “Bauertology: 3/2/26”

Are we sure we need 68 teams? Like, really, really sure? In recent years, it’s become quite commonplace for bracketologists and fans alike to lament the quality of teams situated on or near the bubble, especially as March approaches. Whether it be poor metrics, unsightly quadrant splits, repeated inability to win big games or onContinue reading “Bauertology: 2/27/26”

Ya know, the irony is not lost on me that we as bracketologists obsess over the top-16 bracket preview show as much as we do, trying to forecast every minute detail and split every hair, then the grand reveal finally comes, and… it’s already outdated a few hours later. That’s the consequence of holding theContinue reading “Bauertology: 2/23/26”

The first little morsel of that sweet Selection Sunday treat is just a day away. Tomorrow, the NCAA Tournament selection committee will unveil its current top-16 teams as they presently stand on the first-4 seed lines, sorted into the four regions as they would be for the actual bracket. In addition to whetting the appetiteContinue reading “Bauertology: 2/20/26”

In less than a month, we will have an NCAA Tournament bracket. (Did you get a little shiver down your spine reading that? I know I did.) Yes, there are now just 27 days standing between us Selection Sunday. The season always flies by so fast, and this year is no exception. It seemed likeContinue reading “Bauertology: 2/16/26”

Finally, some movement at the top! It was getting kinda stale there for a while. When you do bracketology as often as I do—that is, twice a week—it’s always fun to look back at old, outdated projections and see just how much a team has moved up or down the seed list based on theContinue reading “Bauertology: 2/13/26”