Bracketology: Your Way-Too-Early March Madness bracket for 2021, Version 1 - ESPN
Joe Lunardi, Senior Writer,
posted: 04/06/20, 7:00am cst
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...2021-version-1
"In the best of times, Bracketology for future seasons is educated guessing at its finest. And these are anything but the best of times. With an understanding that all of us in college basketball are blessed to work in life's toy department, we press on toward a 2020-21 season with a hopeful eye and a wistful heart. The 2019-20 tourney-less campaign left us worse than in the lurch. It left us with a suddenness that was unprecedented and, Lord willing, unrepeatable....
Our methodology for future brackets is based on an algorithm of returning minutes per team, the established level of production of those minutes and guesstimates of how (and how well) a team's non-returning minutes will be replaced. The NBA draft process and NCAA transfer portal present moving targets for everyone, so this bracket might be obsolete for at least some teams in a day, a week or a month. We'll update to reflect that movement as frequently as possible.
In the meantime, know that a typical April bracket will correctly forecast about half of the top seeds for the following season. It will identify about two-thirds of the eventual at-large pool. And its misses will be glaring...."
Teams of Interest
4-seed, Houston
8-seed, Oklahoma State
12-seed, Western Kentucky
Battle of Atlantis Teams
1-seed, Creighton
2-seed, Duke
4-seed, West Virginia
5-seed, Ohio State
Wichita First Round Site
1-seed, Creighton
2-seed, Kansas
Other Teams
9-seed, UConn
10-seed, Oklahoma
11-seed, Loyola Chicago
14-seed, New Mexico State
Joe Lunardi, Senior Writer,
posted: 04/06/20, 7:00am cst
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...2021-version-1
"In the best of times, Bracketology for future seasons is educated guessing at its finest. And these are anything but the best of times. With an understanding that all of us in college basketball are blessed to work in life's toy department, we press on toward a 2020-21 season with a hopeful eye and a wistful heart. The 2019-20 tourney-less campaign left us worse than in the lurch. It left us with a suddenness that was unprecedented and, Lord willing, unrepeatable....
Our methodology for future brackets is based on an algorithm of returning minutes per team, the established level of production of those minutes and guesstimates of how (and how well) a team's non-returning minutes will be replaced. The NBA draft process and NCAA transfer portal present moving targets for everyone, so this bracket might be obsolete for at least some teams in a day, a week or a month. We'll update to reflect that movement as frequently as possible.
In the meantime, know that a typical April bracket will correctly forecast about half of the top seeds for the following season. It will identify about two-thirds of the eventual at-large pool. And its misses will be glaring...."
Teams of Interest
4-seed, Houston
8-seed, Oklahoma State
12-seed, Western Kentucky
Battle of Atlantis Teams
1-seed, Creighton
2-seed, Duke
4-seed, West Virginia
5-seed, Ohio State
Wichita First Round Site
1-seed, Creighton
2-seed, Kansas
Other Teams
9-seed, UConn
10-seed, Oklahoma
11-seed, Loyola Chicago
14-seed, New Mexico State
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