Jake Liker

My heart breaks for Tyler Bilodeau. Guy was one of the best offensive players in college basketball and has his college career end with back-to-back DNPs in the NCAA Tournament. No program has been more snake bitten with injuries in March over the past five years than UCLA.

Mick needs to only play benchwarmers for conference tournament games and I’m dead serious about this

@eliker333 2-3 seed vs 4+

@JakeLiker Difference between frisky and chaos?

The best way to fill out a bracket is: -Two serious regions -One frisky region -One chaos region

My bracketology report card for 2026. 376 points, 110th out of 290 entries in the Bracket Matrix. Strange year. My second-highest score ever (ft. my first 68 for 68), but my second-lowest score ever relative to the average. Backbreaking misses on 13/14, 14/15, 15/16 cutoffs

@tbasil Approaching perfection! Nice job

Paymon score of 380 54 dead on 14 off by 1 68/68, first time getting the entire field since 2021 Definitely set a personal record, but I wouldn't be surprised if we see someone hit 400 this year. No surprises from the committee!

Final seed list and bracket: tonynatocibasketball.blogspot.com/2026/03/bracke…

And to be clear, I’m not saying this because I had a good year. Frankly, had I known the committee was going to be this good at its job I would’ve done better. I underestimated them. I hope that in future years committees live up to the standard that this one has set

Hats off to Keith Gill and this year’s selection committee for being perhaps the most competent we’ve ever had. There are certain choices they made that indicate how they were really doing the work, even down at the 15/16 line. And they actually accounted for today’s games

Looking like a paymon score of 376 this year in the bracket matrix for me. 68/68 in the field 52 seeded correctly All 68 within one line

@tbasil Thank you! And yes I had to go back in and fix it. Texas Tech is the five in the south too

@JakeLiker Great writeup! I'm assuming your South 1 seed is Florida?

On this Selection Sunday, I humbly offer you not one but TWO bracketology columns! Link in reply

Final bracketology ft Miley Cyrus. Link below

@eliker333 That’s a lot of pressure forreal but I appreciate you

Can the greatest bracketologist of all time do it again?! I say yes.

Poor Toledo. Tod Kowalczyk your day will come

what can you even say to this

New bracketology! Link in reply

Furman’s first four D1 opponents this season: High Point (Won Big South) Troy (Won Sun Belt) Northern Iowa (won Missouri Valley) Queens (Won Atlantic Sun)