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🏀 We're back! Here's my way-too-early field -- no games yet but it was good to put a bracket together again. Happy college basketball season everyone! 🏀

@Bauertology Great stuff! Also a personal best for me, would’ve matched you if I hadn’t flipped NC State & Missouri last-minute lol 😂 agreed on the committee, hope they keep up this general line of thinking for future tournaments

Decided to live score my seed list as the reveal happened... Easily the best I've ever done. First time ever getting 68/68 teams. Previous best was 371—a 384 is just wild. I do imagine scores across the board are going to be quite high this year, but I'm still extremely proud of this. And I think the selection committee in general did a great job! I would have moved Purdue up to a 2 ahead of Michigan State, and Arkansas up to a 4 (though likely ahead of Alabama or Kansas, not Vanderbilt) if I hadn't thought that they were going to continue the trend and not account for Sunday results. Good on them for proving us bracketologists wrong for once! Please continue to do that!

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I had Houston 4, ISU 5, but can definitely see the reasoning for this. Respect it

Iowa State the 4th one seed for the committee today over Houston & UConn. Quite the rise of late for the Cyclones!

Now, with the dust settled from Selection Sunday, it's time for one of my favorite post-reveal traditions: How They Built the Bracket! What I'll be doing in this thread is going through the process of how the selection committee built the bracket and its respective matchups, based on the overall seed list, regional and subregional locations, and numerous bracketing principles to abide by. I always find this reverse-engineering process to be a lot of fun, as well as an informative way to show people how the bracketing process works. So, without further ado, let's get to it! Here is the selection committee's 1-68 ranking of all the teams in the field, which will be driving how the bracketing shakes out.

No bid thieves, so no changes — now we wait!

Happy Selection Sunday! Tough decisions at the cut line, but in the end Indiana & Xavier are my last 2 teams in — they should both hope VCU & Memphis win today… Final update before 6!

Wins over Vandy & A&M put Texas in my field today, but lose and they’ll likely fall out for good. UNC & Boise both won yesterday, but they prob need to win today to get in. UC Irvine, Colorado St & Dayton are the only others with a bubble chance (Wake will likely get passed)

Congrats to SIUE, Omaha, Lipscomb, High Point, and Drake for clinching bids this weekend! Auburn stays overall #1 despite back to back losses. Despite big resume flaws, Ohio St (14 Ls) & Xavier (only 1 Q1 W) are in the field — because the teams below them have even bigger flaws…

An even more fun fact: Minnesota currently has more Q1 wins than Duke

First bracketology of March! A lot of tough seeding choices — at the top, Tennessee narrowly takes the last #1 over Alabama & Florida. The bubble is difficult too: Boise State is in by a hair over Nebraska & Xavier (Xavier & UNC each need a second Q1 win to make it in for now)

It’s officially top 16 reveal day! Here’s my prediction — it’ll be interesting to see if the committee has taken results from the last couple days into account (based on prior years, my guess is no)

Despite losing Sat, Auburn stays the overall #1 in this update, followed by Bama, Tenn & Duke. UNC is the last team in, ahead of Arkansas. Shouts to UCSD — likely need to win out until the BW title for any at-large shot, but amazing to even be in the mix in eligibility year 1!

Also, I’m posting less and less on this site — please follow me at the site in my handle for more regular updates!

First in-season bracketology post! They’re 4th out from my field, but Drake has one of the most interesting bubble cases to me — leaving them out for now because of relatively poor metrics.

PSA to check out @Bauertology’s site! Not only is he a great bracketologist, his Resources page is a must-use for anyone putting a bracket together: bauertology.com/resources/

WE’RE BACK. Happy start of the men’s college basketball season to all who celebrate! Here’s my preseason bracket — pretty much uneducated guesses with no results yet, but always fun to have a starting point and dust off my knowledge of the bracketing rules. Have fun everyone! 🏀

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Seedigami! NC State is the first 11 seed to beat a 4 seed in NCAA tournament history

@SwordfishCFH @SBUnfurled Yeah agreed, would’ve loved for UConn to get knocked off before now but can’t in good conscience cheer for Illinois rn

@JmorrB @SBUnfurled That would be a pretty neat final four except I can't stand UConn, but I don't want Illinois in there either, so kind of a catch22 at this point.

This Elite 8 is a total nightmare. As soulless, contemptible, and uninteresting as any I can remember.