If the coronavirus didn’t exist, and the 2020 NCAA men’s basketball tournament was still a thing, the CU Buffs’ season might still be alive today on the first weekend of the tournament. Just not if the machines had anything to say about it.
With no games to report on this week, numerous news outlets and Bracketistas weighed in with simulations of how the 68-team bracket might have played out. Unsurprisingly, none of them liked the Buffs’ chances of getting out of the first weekend for the first time in program history, including fivethirtyeight.com’s projection of a first-round exit.