📄 2035 Dance Partners, Building a Better Bracket w/ EC Hood: Part 1 Feb 6th

Dance Partners, Building a Better Bracket. A bracketology presentation by EC Hood

Welcome to the first Dance Partners of the 2034-35 season! The Bubble Watch is live and teams have started to establish themselves in conference play. Below is an early stab at a full NCAA Tournament bracket. Obviously lots can change, and will, the closer we get. We’ll update a few times before Selection Sunday.

Conference champions were determined by the team with the best in-conference record, and higher NET ranking if tied.

The Rules:

1. No two teams from the same conference will play each other before the Elite 8 unless impossible to avoid.
2. No at-large teams will be seeded below the 12 line unless impossible to avoid. The play-in at-large teams will always be the last four at-large teams that made it.
3. I will tend to give an edge to power conference teams in seeding. This is a personal preference that has more to do with thinking the NET rankings in the game overpower smaller schools and mid majors than anything else.
4. This is not a prediction of what the actual bracket will end up being in the game. It is a prediction of what the bracket would be if this season occurred in real life right now and was picked by the NCAA committee.
5. I’m not quite the NCAA committee – I’m not going to examine every injury to determine if a result was legit or not and I probably won’t have time to drill down into every team sheet. In the end, this is just for fun.

IN GAME DATE: Feb 6th