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Betting Makes March Madness Better

Plus: Why the selection committee did a good job, sports ticket prices are spiking, and more.

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What Do KenPom Stats Say About the 2025 NCAA Tournament? Predictions, Favorites, & More

A look at how college basketball's top analytics guru can tell us who will win the NCAA title.

Sports Illustrated

KenPom Rankings Explained: Who Is Ken Pomeroy and What Do His Rankings Mean?

A deep dive into KenPom rankings, how they work, and why they matter in college basketball analytics.

Sports Illustrated

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Auburn-Alabama Matchup Showcases SEC As More Than a Football Conference

The rivalry showdown between the top two teams in the country lived up to the hype and highlighted how the SEC is the top men’s hoops league in the country.

Sports Illustrated

SI’s Final Four Predictions: These Two Teams Will Play for the Men’s National Title

Three out of the four teams headed to Houston are playing in their first Final Four, but only two can advance to compete for the NCAA tournament title.

Sports Illustrated

Forde Minutes: Our Biggest Questions Leading Into Champ Week

Pat Forde debates factoring Alabama’s off-court controversy in awards voting and what the bracket will hold for Purdue, UCLA and the ACC.

Sports Illustrated

UNC mystified to go from No. 1 team to NCAA bubble watch

The moment Caleb Love announced his return to North Carolina last spring, which gave the Tar Heels four starters back from a team fresh off a NCAA national title game appearance, it led UNC fans to start making travel arrangements for the 2023 Final Four.

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Kentucky, UNC Lead Hoops Teams Feeling February Stress

From the bubble to the battle for the top seeds, these schools are under pressure down the stretch.

Sports Illustrated

The Dangers of Outsized Coaching Influence in College Hoops

Syracuse’s Jim Boeheim essentially said he decides his end date with the school, while others have hand-picked their successors.

Sports Illustrated

It’s yet another bubble battle for Kentucky basketball as Arkansas visits Tuesday

At this point of the season, for this Kentucky basketball team, it feels like every game is an NCAA Tournament play-in game.

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Michael Cunningham: Georgia Tech men’s basketball shouldn’t be this bad

This season’s Georgia Tech men’s basketball team is the worst-ever in Ken Pomeroy’s statistical rankings, which date to the 2001-02 season. The 2009 Yellow Jackets finished 2-14 in the ACC, but at least they lost a lot of close games. This season’s Jackets are 1-10 in the ACC, and the…

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John Clay: Is this Kentucky basketball team improving? A closer look by the numbers.

This Kentucky men’s basketball season hits its 10th game on Saturday when the Wildcats travel to New York to take on UCLA in the CBS Sports Classic.

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WAC to Seed Conference Tournament Using KenPom Ratings, per Report

The WAC is believed to be the first conference to use advanced analytics to determine conference-tournament seeding.

Sports Illustrated

Kansas’ Bill Self not buying into theory that Jayhawks’ Sweet 16 foe has been lucky

CHICAGO — Analytics guru Ken Pomeroy provided Providence College’s men’s basketball team a rallying cry recently when his metrics deemed coach Ed Cooley’s Friars the “luckiest” of the NCAA’s 358 Division I programs.

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Ranking All 68 Men’s NCAA Tournament Teams, From Gonzaga to Texas A&M-CC

Forget seeding—this is a list of the teams playing best when it matters most.

Sports Illustrated

The Tough Climb to the Top of the Mountain West

Stellar coaching, gritty gameplay and dramatic finishes have made the league extremely competitive this season.

Sports Illustrated

Forde Minutes: Which Teams Are Hitting the Panic Button?

The NCAA tournament bubble has some big faces. Plus, assessing the top seed lines and first-year coaches.

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Forde Minutes: Blooming Big Men, Hot Seats and the Shift Westward

Plus the mid-majors that could nab an at-large bid, and five questions with Arizona’s Tommy Lloyd.

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Mark Bradley: Tom Crean hasn’t won at UGA. I still believe he can, though.

After 110 games and 3-1/2 seasons, Georgia under Tom Crean is, according to Ken Pomeroy’s rankings, the lowest-rated team among the Power 5 leagues plus the Big East. In ordinary times, that’d be enough for me to say, “Next.” I can’t in good conscience say that today.

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