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Graham Doeren Bracketology
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Graham Doeren Bracketology
@GrahamDoeren
Co-host of the Unnamed Bracketology Podcast: youtube.com/@UnnamedBracke…
Joined October 2011
- These elite eight are the only teams in college basketball that are top 15 in every team sheet metric.
- Every team with 5+ quad 1 wins on this date last year made the NCAA Tournament. Great news for these terrific 20...
- Top four seed lines. Marquette rises to the one line. Happy Thanksgiving, all!
- 🚨Top 4 seed lines following Saturday's chaos. Auburn, Alabama, and Duke have separated from the pack. Texas Tech makes their first appearance on the top 4 lines.
- Every team that had 5+ Quad 1 wins and a top 15 NET on this date last year landed a 5 seed or better. Expect all of these teams to be at the top of the bracket on Selection Sunday.
- Each of the last two seasons, every team in the KenPom top 13 on this day ended up getting a 6 seed or better in that year’s NCAA Tournament. Here are the current top 13 in KenPom:
- Only four teams are top 10 in every metric. They're also the current 1 seeds. Texas Tech and Arizona are now top 25 in every metric. They're also now 4 seeds.
- 1 seeds seem pretty clear right now. 1 AUBURN - clear number 1 overall 2 TENNESSEE - unbeaten, great road win 3 IOWA ST - Marquette + Dayton wins 4 KENTUCKY - Duke + Gonzaga wins
- ACC Basketball is back. For the first time since 2008-09, the ACC has started 34-1 on the year.
- We're debating whether SMU without a single Quad 1 win should be in or if VCU with a loss to Seton Hall and no wins vs tournament teams should be in. The tournament is going to expand for financial reasons. But from a competitive standpoint, there is no reason to expand.It has been 40 years since the NCAA Tournament has expanded. Forty years! It's time to expand it again. I explain why (and whether or not it will actually happen) in my column for Hoops HQ. @hhqsports hoopshq.com/seth-davis/nca…Readers added contextThe NCAA Tournament most recently expanded from 65 teams to 68 teams in 2011, which was 14 years ago. ncaa.com/news/basketbal…
