Every bracket projection that you will read from now until the NCAA Tournament selection special suffers from the same problem: They are not projections. Virtually all bracket architects are looking at resumes and team sheets as of the date of bracket construction; there is no projection in that effort — this is merely casting a fixed reality without anticipating practical environmental shifts. If Jerry Palm or Joe Lunardi are pounding words onto their keyboards, they are doing so in the moment and are not attempting, in any form or function, to actually project what a team’s profile will look like on March 11th.
Projecting Syracuse’s NCAA Tournament team sheet
