Insider Schedules that could cost bubble teams
It ought to be a founding principle of Bracketology: Although a good schedule might not get a team into the NCAA tournament, a bad list of nonconfere…
Insider Who will earn No. 1 seeds in 2014?
You go 68-for-68 in a crazy season, getting all of the key seeds correct, and suddenly people think you're clairvoyant. So let me be the first to s…
Insider Who will earn No. 1 seeds in 2014?
You go 68-for-68 in a crazy season, getting all of the key seeds correct, and suddenly people think you're clairvoyant. So let me be the first to sa…
Insider Ranking top 100 teams on S-curve
One month into the season and so many questions have been answered: Indiana really is that good, but so are Duke and Florida. The Big Ten, thought t…
Insider Latest realignment winners and losers
Oh, yeah, basketball. They still play that sport in college, right? You wouldn't know it from the latest round of football-driven realignment. Inste…
Insider Top 10 early-season bracket games
There's no doubt that the most anticipated games of this year's Tip-Off Marathon are at the State Farm Champions Classic in Atlanta. The Michigan St…
Insider Early look at the Top 100 S curve
Call me crazy -- not "maybe!" -- but in many ways it's harder to build a reputable preseason bracket than one in January or February. With every tea…
Insider In defense of Seth Greenberg
Here's why I would be a lousy athletic director: In evaluating coaches, I would measure performance versus realistic expectations for any program (n…
Insider Plenty of contenders for No. 1 seeds
If memory serves, we first began the exercise of post-Final Four bracketing in 2005. I remember this because one of our way-too-early choices for a …
Insider Why Badgers are a Final Four 'sleeper'
Every fall, when asked for Final Four predictions at the start of the season, my methodology is the same: Pick two favorites and two so-called sleep…
