Have you ever heard of way too early Bracketology? It’s real. The College Basketball universe cannot live without Bracketology in today’s landscape of technology. Even Joe Lunardi is putting out new brackets before December. Crazy, right? I have always been a firm believer as a Bracketologist, that you need to get moderately into January to have enough necessary data to evaluate any given tournament resume. So what, you say? Just give me a bracket! How bout this..I’ll compromise with you and give you the full picture, but no brackets yet!
On a near daily basis I am updating the Bracketology Big Board. The earlier in the season we are, the more teams that are in the mix for an At-Large bid. We still have tons of teams alive! The reason is because many teams have not even sniffed the meat of their schedules at this point. However, several other teams have played quality games to date, such as Florida State or San Diego State. A subset of teams give us decent data today to make projections and the rest of the teams, simply do not.. So my compromise with you is to share my up to date Big Board. Think of the well-known Todd McShay Big Board for the NFL Draft. Except we are still four months and change until Draft Day, aka Selection Sunday.
The teams below were grouped into columns based on both results and efficiency. Then their bodies of work to date and overall team outlook were compared against one another within each column.,
BIG BOARD
Seeds 1-68 represent the projected NCAA Tournament Seed List.