- College Basketball Power Rankings: Who’s Impressing Entering February?
- Big Ten basketball adapts well to NET ranking tool
- What did past Final Four teams look like when February started?
- UNC Basketball: Can the Tar Heels use their February schedule to make a NCAA Tournament push?
- Bracketology: Will Syracuse’s hot run result in an NCAA Tournament bid?
Monthly Archives: January 2020
Bracket News – 30 Jan 2020
- Overlooked national title contender Dayton has surprisingly built an all-time elite offense
- Ranking College Basketball’s Best Potential 2020 March Madness Cinderella Teams
- BPI says these college basketball teams are better than their places in the standings
- Edwards: The Dayton Flyers are going to cut the nets down in Atlanta on April 6
- Bracketology Bubble Watch: Alabama, Syracuse rising into consideration
- Halfway home in a strange basketball season for the ACC
- March Madness: Getting to know the No. 12 seed
- Fun at Work: Super Bowl, NCAA Can Boost Staffers’ Morale
Bracket News – 29 Jan 2020
- Mid-Majors To Watch Before March Madness | College Basketball Futures
- Bubble Watch: Breaking down every team in at-large contention
- Do college basketball conference titles predict success in the NCAA tournament?
- SoCon midseason report: After peak season, league even deeper this year
- Where Alabama’s NCAA tournament hopes stand after 4 straight wins
- Bracketology: Tigers hopes of NCAA in jeopardy
- 3 teams poised to end March Madness droughts, and 3 streaks in danger
- NCAA Tournament 2020: Stock Watch for Bubble Teams with February Approaching
Bracket News – 28 Jan 2020
- NCAA tournament: Top 16 reveal date, time, TV channel, what to know
- 8 teams most likely to land a No. 1 seed in March Madness
- Who are the biggest overachievers, underachievers in top leagues?
- Rutgers vs Illinois, overrated teams and other key questions
- Michigan, NC State and DePaul going the wrong way
- Three Things To Know: Iowa comes back, Christian Braun arrives, three-bid ACC?
- Chaotic college basketball teams worth your attention ahead of NCAA Tournament
- 15 teams that can get a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament
- 7 programs with strong cases to be college basketball’s next 1st-time champion
- Know Thy Mid-Major: Saint Mary’s Gaels
- Bubble Watch: Breaking down every team in at-large contention
Bracket News – 27 Jan 2020
- What does Kentucky basketball need to do to earn a top-four NCAA Tournament seed?
- Arizona, Stanford exposing flaws in NCAA tournament selection tool
- Bracketology 2020: Duke/Syracuse, Saint Mary’s/BYU among week’s best matchups
- Last time Xavier and UC Bearcats both missed NCAA Tournament was 1984-85
- Loss to Michigan State was missed opportunity for Gophers to impress selection committee
New Page – Compare Metrics for Projected Tournament Teams
Check out the new Projected NCAA Tournament Team Comparison page. It includes two tables showing a list of teams along with some of the metrics the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee will use as selection criteria, including NET, Kenpom, and Sagarin ranks, along with NET Quadrant records.
One table includes teams projected to make the tournament according to the Bracket Matrix, a compilation of bracketologists’ projections from across the internet.
The other table includes all NCAA Division 1 men’s basketball teams.
NCAA Team Quadrant Wins and Losses Tracker
The wonderful Team Quadrant Wins and Losses Tracker is back! (click here)
What is a Quadrant?
This is the third year the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee is using a quadrant classification system as one of their selection criteria. The quadrant classification breaks down a team’s schedule and results in four quadrants with the purpose of placing greater emphasis on games played on neutral courts and in true road environments. The quadrant breakdown, based on NET rank and where the game is played, is as follows:
Q1 Wins Matter
Besides being a major decision criteria for the Selection Committee, the number of Q1 wins has shown to be a strong predictor of tournament success. We only have one season of NET rankings, so I’m talking Q1 wins based on the old RPI rankings. Click here to see what the magic number is and a little more on the subject (I’ll update soon with more data).