With Selection Sunday less than two weeks away, there is a good chance you either hear in reference to or see ESPN Bracketologist Joe Lunardi discuss his predictions for how the Field of 68 will shape out when you turn on ESPN.
Lunardi first began predicting the March Madness field in 1989 for the Blue Ribbon College Basketball Yearbook. Then in the mid-1990s, ESPN began running his predictions and would not look back.
“They needed content,” Lunardi said. “A friend of a friend met someone (and said) ‘Hey, why don’t you run Lunardi’s brackets and see what happens?