Brackets Busted by…Favorites?
I don’t know about you, but my 2007 NCAA bracket is just about busted. All four of my Final Four teams (Florida, UCLA, North Carolina, and Texas A&M) are still alive, but the one I thought was the safest pick (UCLA) actually looked the shakiest in the first two rounds. My [...]

ALL RPI DATA FROM KEN POMEROY (WWW.KENPOM.COM)
1) The RPI is not a script for selecting and seeding teams. It is merely a framework, from which there is often significant deviation.
Remember the following when you hear coaches, fans, and members of the media complaining in advance about the Selection Committee’s over-reliance on RPI data: it is [...]

Who’s the next George Mason?  The question has been buzzing around college basketball circles for the past month, and the real answer is that I’m not sure we’ll see one again anytime soon.
But there certainly are a number of quality mid-majors this year, including from the Patriots’ own conference: the CAA.  Drexel has a nation’s-best [...]

Championship Week can never come soon enough, at least for bracket junkies like myself.  But take heart, fellow hoops fans—the 2007 edition is rapidly approaching.
In an ironic twist, Championship Week is a unique time in all of sports that sees even Goliaths (i.e. teams in BCS leagues) root for Davids
Why?  Because the more quality mid-majors [...]

We’re extending the mid-majors’ moment in the sun this week as we take a look at the five most important Tournament implications that have come about as a result of the annual BracketBuster event.  Next Monday, it’s back to the power conferences, as we look at what BCS teams are most desperate for W’s heading [...]

We’re channeling Mark Twain this week here on Bracketography.  Upon learning that his obituary had been published in the U.S. while he was abroad in London, the humorist sent a cable back home in which he famously stated “Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.”
Well, a number of obituaries have mistakenly been written by the [...]

Now that football is in the rear-view mirror and the NBA hits its mid-season lull, the nation’s attention shifts primarily to college hoops for the next two months.  We have only five weeks until Selection Sunday!
The top of the bracket is beginning to sort itself out.  UCLA, Florida, and North Carolina (despite its loss on [...]

It’s about this time every year that the RPI formula, and its impact on selecting and seeding teams for the NCAA Tournament, comes under heavy fire from media, fans, and even coaches.  On the media side this week, both Jay Bilas and Seth Davis voiced strong opinions about the RPI, with Bilas re-iterating his desire [...]

Well, bracket fans, we’re only one week away from the point at which teams start to build their “Last 10 Games” criterion for the Selection Committee.  Some schools are starting to separate themselves from the pack (Marquette, Washington State).  Others looking for security at the start of the week instead find themselves sliding closer to [...]

Most conferences are well underway with their regular-season schedules; some, like the Pac-10, are one-third complete already. (Can that be right? Football season just finished last week!)

But a team’s in-conference record is only part of the equation on Selection Sunday, albeit an important one. What a team does against [...]