The common fan’s interest in NCAA Tournament seeding has skyrocketed since the advent of “Bracketology” and the proliferation of these prognosticators across the Internet. Arguably, this phenomenon has led to over analysis of teams’ partial resume at checkpoints in the season, when all that matters is the outcome on Selection Sunday. And while many might argue that the team playing the best in March is most likely to win the tournament regardless of its seed, fretting over who earns No. 1 seeds is well justified: 12 of the last 16 National Champions have come from the top line.
So the question one should ask when analyzing the abundance of projected brackets, alongside the multitude of predictive metrics across the internet, is less where a team stands now than where they’re likely to stand come March.