FINAL PROJECTIONS! This is it! Extremely weird geography with this bracket but that’s how it goes sometimes. Fingers crossed for two 7/10 matchups in Dayton. Here goes nothing… Oh and here’s the seed list: 1 1 UConn 2 1 Purdue 3 1 Houston 4 1 North Carolina 5 2 Tennessee 6 2 Arizona 7 2 Iowa State 8 2 Marquette 9 3 Baylor 10 3 Creighton 11 3 Duke 12 3 Kansas 13 4 Kentucky 14 4 Auburn 15 4 Illinois 16 4 Alabama 17 5 South Carolina 18 5 BYU 19 5 San Diego State 20 5 Wisconsin 21 6 Texas Tech 22 6 Clemson 23 6 Saint Mary’s 24 6 Florida 25 7 Utah State 26 7 Gonzaga 27 7 Dayton 28 7 Nevada 29 8 Wa ..read more

Well, reader, judgment day is upon us. It is 1:42 AM pacific time as I type this and I need to go to bed, but I want to share with you where I’m at with this year’s final projections. Saturday was the single most chaotic day of bracketology I’ve ever experienced, and I’m not alone: Been doing this since 2006. It's never been this hard for the committee, not only because of how close so many of these teams are, but because of the abundance of bid thieves which have knocked teams out. Going on midnight but the work continues. That's why they call it Madness. — David Worlock (@DavidWorlock) Mar ..read more

These projections were made having taken into account all results through the Northwestern-Wisconsin game on Friday. Feel free to hit me up on Twitter @JakeLiker as per usual if you have any questions. I need to go touch grass now. See you all on Sunday for the final projections! Seed list is below. Some quick hits before we part: The winner of Baylor vs Iowa State tonight will almost certainly be a 2-seed. The loser might be a 2 as well, depending on what Marquette does I am extremely wary of Pitt‘s nonconference schedule North Carolina is now in the driver’s seat for the last 1-seed The cu ..read more

The Usual Disclaimers Projections attempt to simulate what the selection committee would do given what we know about each team. This is not my opinion of the teams, this is my prediction of the committee’s opinion. This bracketology is a snapshot, frozen in time. It does not aim to predict what will happen; it is a simulation of what would happen if the season ended today. Projections made based on NET data entering Monday but win-loss records entering Tuesday Clusters/Seed List Reader, judgment week is upon us. Fates will unravel, truths will be revealed, and destinies will be fulfilled. I ..read more

Surprise, reader! It’s a special edition Friday night bracket update! One that I immensely regret doing immensely because boy oh boy did things get much more confusing since Tuesday morning. Sam Houston State overtook Louisiana Tech as the Conference USA leader, and in doing so, took a sledgehammer to the neat and orderly list of 13-, 14-, 15-, and 16- seeds. The divide between each of those lines was relatively clear earlier this week. But no more! A thirteen seed exits, a fifteen seed enters, and suddenly an inconsequential fight between Morehead State and Oakland for 59th place (they’re bo ..read more

Reader…I know. I said there would be a Wake Forest column last Thursday. But Thursday came and went, and there was no column in sight. You were hoodwinked, bamboozled, led astray, run amok, and flat-out deceived by me. And for that I must apologize. I am deeply sorry. Please accept this excerpt of the 1200-word (and still far from complete) draft that will never see the light of day as a token of my regret: Wake Forest fans are hungry to return to the NCAA tournament. The glory days of the 1990s and the early 2000s––fifteen consecutive winning seasons, Rodney Rogers, Randolph Childress, Josh ..read more

Hello, reader. I’m working on a column about Wake Forest. This column is not done yet, because as we have established, I am quite busy this semester. I am nonetheless determined to provide actual analysis rather than just throw up my graphic and call it day. The Wake Forest column will be published right here at jakelikersbracketology dot wordpress dot com by Thursday morning. I’ll tweet it out once it is up. In the meantime, please feel free to stew on this week’s projections. As a bonus, I’ve also included this week’s seed list underneath the disclaimers Sincerely, Management (Jake) The Usu ..read more

Reader…so much to say, so little time. But there’s always time for disclaimers! The Usual Disclaimers Projections attempt to simulate what the selection committee would do given what we know about each team. This is not my opinion of the teams, this is my prediction of the committee’s opinion. This bracketology is a snapshot, frozen in time. It does not aim to predict what will happen; it is a simulation of what would happen if the season ended today. Conference champions are determined by whoever has the fewest losses in conference play, with NET used as a tiebreaker. Projections made based ..read more

Reader! You’re back! And it appears you’ve multiplied! We have so much to catch up on. Here, take a look at the ol’ disclaimers just to refresh your memory and then we can chat. The Usual Disclaimers Projections attempt to simulate what the selection committee would do given what we know about each team. This is not my opinion of the teams, this is my prediction of the committee’s opinion. This bracketology is a snapshot, frozen in time. It does not aim to predict what will happen; it is a simulation of what would happen if the season ended today. Conference champions are determined by whoev ..read more

Hello! This is a brief programming note. I’ve never felt the need to write one of these before, but WordPress tells me that 17 different people out there viewed this site today. Seventeen! This statistic is a testament to one of two things: either my newfound credibility after last year’s performance, or Dead Internet theory. I personally prefer option #1. In either case, I wanted to let you my first projections of the season will go up in either the last week of January or the first week of February. In years past I’ve found the NET data is still too unstable on a day-to-day basis at this poi ..read more