For some of you, filling out a bracket is easy. If you’ve been tuned in all season, you can lean on your ball-knowing skills to find edges for the tournament.
If you’re just now tuning in, though, it’s time to lean on the experts. That’s what we’re going to do today.
One route for this is a wisdom of the crowd approach. We can blend together the thoughts of multiple ranking systems, increasing the accuracy of the aggregate and giving us a good gauge on who should be expected to win each game.
The table below blends together the men’s college basketball power rankings at KenPom, Bart Torvik, The Power Rank, and ESPN BPI to spit out the projected strength of each team. By mashing those models together, we can decrease the odds there is a bias toward a particular team and — hopefully — fill out a better bracket as a result.
Ranking Every Team in the Men’s College Basketball Tournament
These rankings mesh well with FanDuel Sportsbook’s college basketball betting odds. Even with Cooper Flagg banged up, Duke is the favorite to win it all at +340.
Florida
+400
Auburn
+500
Houston
+700
Alabama
+1900
Tennessee
+2100
Texas Tech
+2400
Michigan State
+3000
Gonzaga is the lowest-seeded team that grades out inside the top 10. Despite sitting as an 8 seed in Midwest, they’re ninth in the blended rankings, and they’re top 10 in all four measurements. They could be a team to make some noise, though a date with second-ranked Houston would await in the second round should they win.
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