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Monday, December 23, 2024
Part 6 of our year-by-year deep dives looking at the NCAA Tournament bubbles past brings us to the years 2010-14. The 68-team tourney arrives, TV commentators go ballistic about VCU’s selection in its Final Four year, and inspired picks in 2012 and 2013 are followed by a decided shift in committee philosophy the next year.
As Selection Sunday 2020 approaches, Hoopville contributor Adam Glatczak is going to look back at 35 years of the bubble. Introducing his year-by-year look at at-large ins and outs since the NCAA tourney expanded to 64 teams in 1985
On the morning of Selection Sunday, here is our one-time-only projection of the NCAA Tournament field, including who will be in, who won’t-and who should be and shouldn’t be.
Virtually every season as the NCAA Tournament nears, the talk of bracket projections revolves around that season havng a “soft bubble.” It’s often as much of an exaggeration as it is incorrect-you can’t have a soft bubble every year-but this year it’s also not true.
Presenting a big-picture look at where teams’ NCAA Tournament chances stand in early February, for those in the heaviest contention for bids.
With so many years of “bracketology” and the resulting better understandings of the NCAA Tournament selection process that has come from it, there are many years where predicting the teams in the field is not that much of a mystery, sometimes almost easy even. This year is not one of those years.
It’s almost time to discover the brackets. The committee has been busy at work for most of the past few days. They are probably dreaming in S-curves and brackets when they sleep by now. I certainly am. This afternoon was more like a nightmare for the fans of NC State, […]
Selection Sunday is here. We’re down to the final hours before the selection committee reveals this year’s NCAA Tournament bracket, and there’s still potential for drama this afternoon. Based on my latest projections, Tennessee should be very nervous. The Volunteers are the last team in right now, which means they’d […]
Friday provided plenty of surprises, with a potential No. 1 seed, Kansas, going down, to a team that’s moving up the S-curve, Baylor. Among the non-power conferences, the WAC favorite, Nevada, fell to Louisiana Tech late last night, opening the door for New Mexico State to claim the conference’s automatic […]
I recently bemoaned that Drexel’s loss to VCU in the CAA title game would relegate the Dragons to the NIT, with some barely deserving major conference team squeezing into the NCAA Tournament with 12 or 13 losses. Not so fast. After a day of madness and general lackluster performances by […]
