Category Archives: Bracketology

Saturday’s top 16 reveal can’t come soon enough. Before games start this weekend, the NCAA Tournament selection committee will preview its current top 16 seed teams, listed in order from 1 to 16, seeded from 1 to 4, and placed in regions as if the bracket were being built. They’ve done this every year forContinue reading “Bauertology: 2/15/23”

Those NET rankings can be a funny thing. Whereas my last bracket had some good bracketology lessons for keeping an open mind when evaluating résumés and taking every result with a grain of salt, today’s lesson focuses on keeping an eye on how data moves from day to day, even when the latest results don’tContinue reading “Bauertology: 2/11/23”

Keeping an open mind while undergoing the bracketology process is critical. I know lots of bracketologists will tend to copy-paste their previous brackets and make adjustments to the seed lines depending on what results have happened since, and even the likes of Joe Lunardi will prognosticate where teams will move up and down in theContinue reading “Bauertology: 2/6/23”

How many losses is too many losses? This is a question that seems to pop up every year around this time, as Bubble Watch starts to rear its pretty head (look out for my first edition 10 days from now!), and only a month and a half remains until Selection Sunday. A handful of teamsContinue reading “Bauertology: 2/3/23”

Are things finally starting to clear up for bracketology? Just a week ago, I mentioned that the bracket was about as messy as it had been all season—a confusing bubble, hard-to-separate seeds all over the place, even some one-bid conference projected winners blurring the at-large cut line… But things tend to sort themselves out time.Continue reading “Bauertology: 1/30/23”

Bracket-building is a fun process. When performing bracketology, anyone can create a seed list of teams ranked 1 to 68. But that’s only half the fun; the people who stop there don’t know what they’re missing. When I’ve finished building my bracket, after following all the principles for maintaining balance in regions, avoiding rematches, tryingContinue reading “Bauertology: 1/27/23”

Bracketology can be a mess. You’ll find that to be the case in this edition of Bauertology, which was, from top to bottom, the most difficult version yet to accurately sort, select, seed, and shove into the bracket. At least I feel confident in my top four seed lines; those selections all seem pretty rockContinue reading “Bauertology: 1/23/23”

So, who’s actually good in college basketball? Since the last bracket I posted on Monday—a mere four days ago—five of my top 10 teams were defeated. Kansas, the team I once claimed had the undisputed best résumé in the land, no longer sits on that throne. UConn, a team that once looked like a shoe-inContinue reading “Bauertology: 1/20/23”

That was a pretty wacky weekend, huh? A Saturday that started off with floundering Kentucky going to Knoxville and knocking off No. 5 Tennessee (much to the chagrin of those ready to call the Wildcats dead) began a cascade of ranked teams losing, with 11 in total falling—tying the record for the most in aContinue reading “Bauertology: 1/16/23”

You know college basketball is starting to get really good when twice-a-week Bauertology returns! I’ve had a little bit of free time on my hands since I’ve been stuck at home sick for the past week or so, so why not spend it making some brackets? And I think this one is probably my mostContinue reading “Bauertology: 1/13/23”