Oh, boy. We’ve already reached the contentious time of year where bubble team résumés look absolutely disgusting. It’s almost a fact of life at this point that the bracketology process of selecting which teams that reside right near the at-large cut line get to play in March Madness—and which ones get to watch from home—isContinue reading “Bauertology: 1/27/25”
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Bauertology: 1/20/25
How much weight can a single game have? This is the question we ask ourselves in today’s edition of Bauertology. Whenever I, or really any bracketologist, post a new projection, one of the most common complaints received is that “so-and-so shouldn’t be above my team because my team beat them.” This gripe is a fairlyContinue reading “Bauertology: 1/20/25”
BRCT: A New Way to Measure NCAA Tournament Résumés
I. Introduction Every game matters. At least, that’s what we’re told, right? When the clock turns to March, and the 12 jurors that make up the NCAA Tournament selection committee have the unenviable task of comparing the résumés of hundreds of basketball teams across thousands of games, in order to create the perfect 68-team MarchContinue reading “BRCT: A New Way to Measure NCAA Tournament Résumés”
Bauertology: 1/13/25
A schedule? Regularity? Who needs any of that? Bauertology has perhaps been a bit notorious in years past for dropping at the very strict intervals of whenever I have the time to do it, but it’s a new year, so I’ll craft a resolution right now to post new brackets at more routine times. FromContinue reading “Bauertology: 1/13/25”
Bauertology: 1/2/25
Happy New Year, one and all! Let’s start 2025 off right with the first official Bauertology of the college basketball season. (I say “official” because I did put together a preseason bracket for fun back in November—one that’s already starting to look completely busted.) Today’s bracket will look completely busted in due time, too. ConferenceContinue reading “Bauertology: 1/2/25”
Bauertology: 11/4/24 (Preseason)
Welcome back, college basketball. We missed you. It’s been seven long months since UConn cut down the nets in Glendale, but the hot stove has left us plenty of reason for excitement for the next installment of college hoops in the meantime. Generational recruit Cooper Flagg committing to Duke. Coach Cal leaving Lexington for theContinue reading “Bauertology: 11/4/24 (Preseason)”
Bauertology: 3/17/24 (FINAL)
One final plea from a bracketologist to you—take it easy on us. This bracket is not going to be 100% correct. It never is—none ever are, every single year—because we can’t read the selection committee’s mind. But it’s especially true this year. In all my years of bracketology, this is the wildest Selection Sunday IContinue reading “Bauertology: 3/17/24 (FINAL)”
Bauertology: 3/11/24
The madness is already here. We’re a now a week deep into conference tournament play and four official NCAA Tournament bids have already been clinched (hearty congrats are in order for Morehead State, Longwood, Drake, and especially Stetson, who will be going dancing for the first time ever), with two more (Sun Belt, SoCon) toContinue reading “Bauertology: 3/11/24”
Bauertology: 3/8/24
The first mid-conference-tournament-play Bauertology is here! Selection Sunday is just nine days away, and postseason tournaments for a number of smaller conferences are now in full swing. In fact, Big South tournament action between projected automatic bid High Point and Radford is going on as I write this. (Please win so today’s bracket doesn’t lookContinue reading “Bauertology: 3/8/24”
Bauertology: 3/4/24
Creating the bracket can be a real pain in the rear sometimes. I touched on some of the bracketing principles that the committee must follow when building the bracket in my last Bauertology update, and since I’ve got nothing better to talk about this time around, let’s continue! We start with the greatest headache ofContinue reading “Bauertology: 3/4/24”