Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls: the best time of year is finally here. Welcome back, Bubble Watch. In just over a month’s time, the 68-team field will be revealed, and the greatest spectacle in sports—nay—world history, will commence. This, of course, is the NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament, better known as March Madness.Continue reading “Bauer’s Bubble Watch: 2/10/25”
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Bauer’s Bubble Watch: 3/12/24
Where’d all the time go? It was just a month ago that the Bauer’s Bubble Watch column reopened for business in 2024. Now, with less than week to go until Selection Sunday, the final full edition of BBW is upon us. The days just move too quickly! In five short days, the NCAA Tournament bracketContinue reading “Bauer’s Bubble Watch: 3/12/24”
Bauer’s Bubble Watch: 3/5/24
Let the madness begin! The first Bauer’s Bubble Watch of March 2024 is here, and so is the college basketball postseason, as the ASUN tournament began its march to the madness on Monday night. Though I don’t track eliminations here on BBW, we can firmly cross two teams off the tournament-hopeful list with both KennesawContinue reading “Bauer’s Bubble Watch: 3/5/24”
Bauer’s Bubble Watch: 2/27/24
Do you feel that? That’s the anticipation beginning to settle in. That calendar might make your eyes do a double-take, and not just because it’s Leap Year. (Don’t forget about that on Thursday, by the way). No, it’s because conference tournament play is now officially less than a week away. Crazy, right? But it’s true—theContinue reading “Bauer’s Bubble Watch: 2/27/24”
Bauer’s Bubble Watch: 2/20/24
Hello, friends. Welcome back to Bauer’s Bubble Watch. (Aaaaahhh, it feels so good to say that again!) Yes, the long wait is over. Football season is now a relic of the distant past, and the greater collective sports focus has turned its attention to the hardwood, just in time for the homestretch of college basketballContinue reading “Bauer’s Bubble Watch: 2/20/24”
Bauer’s Bubble Watch: 3/6/23
In less than a week, we will have a bracket. The good news: the best three-and-a-half weeks of the calendar year are within arm’s reach. You can already smell the madness cooking in the conference tournament games that we’ve had the fortune to see go down to the wire and finish in the dramatic mannerContinue reading “Bauer’s Bubble Watch: 3/6/23”
Bauer’s Bubble Watch: 2/27/23
If this past weekend’s slate of complete and utter madness doesn’t convince you that college basketball is the greatest sport on earth, then there’s no saving you. Saturday alone featured an 11-point comeback with less than a minute remaining, at least three enormous buzzer beaters with heavy postseason implications, and nine ranked teams losing inContinue reading “Bauer’s Bubble Watch: 2/27/23”
Bauer’s Bubble Watch: 2/20/23
Ah, the top-16 preview. A February tradition that allows bracketologists near and far to compare their season’s worth of forecasting with what the selection committee has in mind. It’s an opportunity to take pride in your work, having correctly aligned yourself with the correct criteria, or undergo an important learning experience if you’re off theContinue reading “Bauer’s Bubble Watch: 2/20/23”
Bauer’s Bubble Watch: 2/13/23
Bye, bye Super Bowl, hello Bubble Watch. It’s a tradition like no other. …Well, almost. If you’ve been following Bauertology for some time, you’ll know that I didn’t get the chance to put together any Bubble Watch pieces at all last year with how busy my work schedule was; credit that to being understaffed atContinue reading “Bauer’s Bubble Watch: 2/13/23”
Bauer’s Bubble Watch: 3/13/21
This is the final Bauer’s Bubble Watch of the season. It’s bittersweet, isn’t it? It feels like just yesterday that we began monitoring our bubbly buddies and hypothesizing their NCAA Tournament odds. But the big payoff is finally just around the corner. Selection Sunday—the great day of judgment—is tomorrow. All of our obsessing over theContinue reading “Bauer’s Bubble Watch: 3/13/21”