Tag Archives: Bracketology

This. Is. March. The greatest month of the year. The time of year when thousands of college basketball games played over the past four months deliver the payoff. Conference tournaments. Selection Sunday. March Madness. We’ve made it. Only 12 days remain until we figure out which 68 teams are going to play in the greatestContinue reading “Bauertology: 3/1/23”

Can you taste it? March is almost here. The month of madness itself is only four days away. But the madness will actually be coming back into our lives a little sooner, as the first conference tournament kicks off on Monday, Feb. 27. Yep, postseason basketball is only two nights’ sleep away. I don’t knowContinue reading “Bauertology / NITology: 2/25/23”

Think like the committee. Think like the committee. That’s something kept telling myself as I worked on putting together my first post-top-16-preview bracket. If you’re like me, it’s very easy to get bogged down in the numbers. So-and-so has a higher mark in these metrics, look at how they compare in Quad 1 win totals,Continue reading “Bauertology: 2/22/23”

The day we’ve all been waiting for is here! …Kinda. While casual fans probably won’t get that much excitement out of today’s top 16 teams preview at 12:30 p.m. EST on CBS, bracketologists will. If Selection Sunday is the final exam, this is the midterm. This is our chance to find out whether or notContinue reading “Bauertology: 2/18/23”

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”