🏀 2025-2026 Bracketology

[Yob]

I actually have no idea what BPI even is

[hoos689]

espns knockoff kenpom

[Hoos9412]

Again with the caveat that this could have changed in the last year or two, but at least the way they used to do it, your pod location for the first weekend wasn’t tied to your region for the second weekend

[zh00s]

“It is the Duke Miles show here in Nashville”!!!

Music to my ears.

[zh00s]

This Vandy Arkansas game is nuts

[tonyburnertt]

its absolute garbage and needs to be removed from the team sheets

Consistently produces a ton of dumb outliers and provides no real value

Does it still do the massive altitude adjustment??

[Hoos9412]

@TheGrinch

Where it gets weird is the difference between “bottom” of the seed line and the “top” of the next – the fourth 3 seed and the first 4 seed, for example. The fourth 3 seed gets what’s left after the three in front of them (9/10/11 on the seed line) are in their preferred locations. The first four seed (13 on the line) gets their preferred location as a 4 seed. So it could be geographically better to be 13 on the line (first four seed) vs. 12 on the line (last three seed location). But I’d still rather be a 3 seed - less geographically ideal, but a “kinder” bracket. Usually

I’m not following this. Why and when would it be geographically beneficial to be 13 over 12 for the first weekend?

Obviously for the regional locations of the second weekend that could happen

[HOORVA]

Power with 37 now (but may lose)

[HOORVA]

Holy Shit! Power hits the 3 with time expiring to have 40 total and send the game to OT!

[Yob]

Holy crap he’s got 40 now

[blguthrie]

Power, what a shot! 40!

[Hoohoohoo]

40 ball Power

[HOORVA]

Insane! Shot by Levine on 2 possesions prior was terrible. You’ve got a guy hitting everything from 3. Why would you shoot a terrible contested layup?

[dave92]

I guess I’ve never really worried about BPI because I presumed that everyone (including the committee) knows it sucks, and ignores it, and it’s just on the sheet to make ESPN happy.

But I have no basis for believing that other than that it’s obvious it sucks and should be ignored.

[TheGrinch]

I might be thinking about second weekend, 9412, now that they have the mini-pods linked to the top 4 seeds for the first two rounds with the location not tied to the region (so the mini-pod in philly that lunardi has us in is tied to the midwest regional not the East regional). Used to link the mini-pod to the geographic location not the protected seed’s region.

[jphat007]

Can you imagine? Man

[HOORVA]

Penn wins! Power w/42 or 43 (not sure) + 14 rebounds! Penn was 100% from the FT line. Insane.

[zvillehoo]

Felt I read someplace that bpi has a “talent” component to their algorithm, which is absurd this late into the season.

[crazysportsdude]

Obviously hope we get a three and this is moot but Yale’s loss means UNI will move up to a 12. 13s will be a lot less scary without them as a possibility. Cal Baptist, Hofstra, NDSU, Hawaii probably.

[Pantsmith-33]

Trevon Brazile single handedly boosting our 3 seed chances. Love it.