Angela Dugalic is so real for staying at UCLA and coming off the bench. Such an important part of this team.

FINAL BRACKETOLOGY 2026 Well reader, we’ve come to the end. Above are the almost-final projections. Wichita State will replace South Florida if the Shockers win the American autobid. Everything else is final. If the…

Final bracket let’s do this

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Bracketology 3/15/26 – A Double Feature All they can do is wait. All we can do is wait. E ho’omaka ka pupule. Let the madness begin.

On this Selection Sunday, I humbly offer you not one but TWO bracketology columns!

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Bracketology 3/11/26 – Food For Thought Don’t look now, but Oklahoma State has TEN quad 1/quad 2 wins and ZERO quad 3/quad 4 losses.

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Bracketology 3/3/26 – The Dayton Fly Trap What a difference a week makes. The once-orderly top four seed lines? That’s over. The distinction between 2-seed and 4-seed has collapsed. The exceptionally strong bubble? Consider it popped…

Fairly confident that this week’s bracketology features the first ever sentence to reference both Travis Steele and Mohammad Mosaddegh:

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Predictions for the bracket preview:

1 Michigan
2 Duke
3 Arizona
4 Iowa State, i guess?

5 Houston
6 UConn
7 Illinois
8 Purdue

9 Kansas
10 Nebraska
11 Florida
12 Gonzaga

13 Michigan St.
14 Virginia
15 Vanderbilt
16 Texas Tech

Also considered:
Alabama
Arkansas
Tennessee

Bracketology 2/16/26 – Crossing the Line There are certain lines that cannot be crossed.

New bracketology. UConn crossed the line. Source: I made it up.

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Bracketology 2/3/26 – Preliminary Vibe Check Right now I’m just trying to suss out the vibes, so to speak.

My bracketology is back. It’s the only place where you can find projections and references to both Stephen F. Austin and the Timothee Chalamet papa’s orchard tweet in the same sentence.

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For First Time in Decades, Child Deaths Will Rise This Year Almost a quarter of a million more children around the world are projected to die in 2025 than in 2024.

This fetid landmark, this historical stain on humanity is primarily due to the stunningly reckless obliteration of America's foreign assistance agency earlier this year.

Led by the richest man on earth. In secret, on a weekend. With zero analysis or discussion of its catastrophic impacts.

Midwest: Purdue, Houston, Alabama, UNC West: Arizona, Louisville, Gonzaga, Illinois East: Michigan, UConn, Iowa St., Florida South: Duke, Michigan St., BYU, Tennessee

Stopped because this was getting no traction, then I remembered I don’t care about traction.

December 1st poll edition:

South: Houston, Alabama, Louisville, Illinois Midwest: Purdue, Arizona, Florida, St. John’s East: UConn, Michigan, Texas Tech, Iowa State West: Duke, BYU, Kentucky, UCLA

November 10th poll edition:

Free Havrisik

Midwest: Purdue, Duke, Texas Tech, Bama South: Houston, Michigan, Kentucky, Iowa State East: Florida, St. John’s, UCLA, Arizona West: UConn, BYU, Louisville, Arkansas

As a weekly bracketological exercise to keep me sharp in the first half of the (men’s) college basketball season, I make a mock bracket of the top 4 seeds in each region using the AP Poll in my notes app. Here are the results from the preseason poll:

Bracketology 2/11/25 – Humble Reader, I did not imagine returning like this. I come to you humbled by the great Mountain West Massacre of 2024, which produced my worst performance ever. And I come to you humbled by the legal pr…

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2024/25 UCLA men’s basketball record by time zone (home games excluded)

Pacific: 4-1
Mountain: 1-0
Central: 0-1
Eastern: 0-3

We truly do not deserve Mountain West basketball

The way I look at is this: Do you think Packers fans wanted them to go for it or kick the field goal and give them the ball back? If I’m a GB fan I was hoping for the latter.

Call me delusional but I’m strangely encouraged by the Packers’ performance tonight. Team responded well after a pretty dismal first half, Jordan had an impressive second half. Defense is pretty banged up (though Detroit’s is too, to be fair). Just gotta get healthy during this mini-bye.

Notre Dame-Rutgers going to overtime on a Turner network is giving me March 2022 flashbacks

Deki is absolutely ridiculous

OH YES

Final scores of the first five Bucknell men’s basketball games of the season. The second game went to overtime; the fourth and fifth games both went to double overtime.

Bucknell has played five overtimes this season. They’ve only played five games.

🫡 count me in

When she said “Paul George or George Paul idk they’re both first names” and the internet told me I needed to wife her >>>>>

I asked my girlfriend to name the first five NBA players that popped into her head and she said LeBron, KD, James Harden, Russ, and Enes Kanter