Friday, March 20, 2015

Addendum To: This Year's (Almost) Last Bracketology

So, did they get it right?

No, not exactly.

From what I can tell, according to this story I saw on ESPN.com, these are the teams that the NCAA Tournament Committee deemed were on the cut line:

  • The Real Team 64: UCLA
  • Apparently the Play-In Teams Are, In Order: Boise St., Ole Miss, BYU, Dayton
  • The Real Last Four Out, In Order: Temple, Colorado St., Old Dominion, Richmond
Comparing it to the hive consensus on The Bracket Matrix, it looks like Bracketologists were really wrong with putting the Owls and Rams into the tournament -- Colorado St. moreso, since they were believed to be actually in the Field.  Conversely, most of them thought that the Rebels and the Bruins would be left out ... and they were more wrong about the Bruins, whom the Committee actually placed in the Field.

All in all, seems as if the prognosticators were more wrong this year than in years past.

One other thought: The four teams comprising the #1 seeds in the Not Invited Tournament are all from non-BcS schools.  And Bracketologists thought that two of those schools, Temple and Colorado St., would get in in place of two BcS schools, Ole Miss and UCLA.  Hmmm. ...

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