📄 2038 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 bracketology of the season!

Now that the Bubble Watch is live, it’s a perfect time to set up a bracket of what we’d do if we were a much smarter and frankly cooler version of the Draft Day Sports College Basketball AI Selection Committee. The AI is always putting two teams from the same league together, and we also feel like they overseed mid majors (sometimes). This is a tough, but fair look at what the bracket might look like if a room full of CBGM players got together for an all-nighter (probably with copious amounts of alcohol) and picked the field of 68. Did I just come up with a fantastic #cbgm-idea or what?

Regardless, it’s very early in the season. But the postseason will be here before you know it. Enjoy the bracket – we’ll have a few more before the Big Dance hits.

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. Note: Conference champion bid predictions are determined by the team with the best in-conference record, and higher NET ranking if tied, at the time of the update if the league title game hasn’t been played yet.
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