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The Madness is finally here. Before we look ahead, let’s look back at how the bracket compares to my final projection.
People watch from the stands Sunday, March 15, 2026, during the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament Selection Sunday watch party at Timmons Arena in Greenville, South Carolina. | Alex Martin/Greenville News / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images And so, it’s another season of bracketology in the books—and not too bad of one either. Here’s a look at my performance: 1 miss, Texas got in over Oklahoma, which I would have gotten right had I stuck to my first instinct .
45 teams seeded correctly (an improvement of 1 over 2025) 20 teams seeded within one seed line (an improvement of 4 over 2025 (16)) 2 teams seeded within two seed lines, Vanderbilt and Utah State (an improvement from 6 in 2025) This was my best performance since 2022 (1 miss, 45 seeded correctly, 21 within 1 line, 1 within 2 lines), so I feel like I’m on the right track in terms of navigating a changed environment. Here are some things that stuck out to me, particularly in terms of consistency on the part of the Selection Committee, even if I think Division I Men’s Basketball Committee chair/Sun Belt Commissioner Keith Gill’s transparency and frankness is an example that future chairs should follow to make the process more accessible to fans and the media. My North Star is this statement from Seth Davis on the Selection Show: Your Results-Based (backward-looking) metrics that determine selection and your Predictive (forward-looking) metrics that most determine your seeding.
Three of my biggest misses resulted from inconsistency here. I based my placement of Vanderbilt (3 line), Virginia and St. John’s (4 line), and Utah State (7 line) on their predictive metrics.
In the Commodores case, their average ranked 12th in predictive metrics and 8th in results-based metrics, which is a projected 2 seed. The Selection Committee clearly took the perception that they don’t pay attention to Sunday title games to heart—whether that be through very late scrubbing or building contingency brackets. That was evident in Michigan dropping from No.
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