The NCAA’s one-and-done tournament format allows little room for error. It’s not inconceivable for a lower seeded team to play out of its mind for 40 minutes and upset a more talented opponent. It’s also apparent that outside of the top few teams in each region, there’s not too much disparity between the rest of […]
March Madness is under way and after yesterday’s first round of games the majority of brackets are busted harder than most previous years due to a couple of 14 seeds winning. Inevitably, there were some controversial calls yesterday as there are bound to be with so many teams fighting hard to advance. To help the […]
In the quest to fill out the perfect March Madness bracket, it quickly becomes apparent that such a scenario is more of a pipedream than anything else. The joy, though, to enter a pool with the hopes of beating those in the group is something anyone can relate to, including data scientists. Although the rough […]
March Madness is upon us, and there’s a plethora of storylines in this years’ NCAA Tournament. Can Frank Kaminsky and Wisconsin finally win it all for the first time in 70 years? Will freshman phenoms Jahlil Okafor and Tyus Jones steal the show? Will John Calipari’s Wildcats become the first team to go 40-0? The […]
The latter half of March is upon us and for many sports fans it means that it’s that special time of year again. It’s bracket time. This week we will watch many hours of college basketball during the day while pretending to work at our day jobs. In the past, these day-job-slackers may have had […]
