Andy Bottoms is one of the world's most respected bracketologists. He has published his bracket projections online for nearly a decade, at Midwest Sports Fans, Fox Sports, Assembly Hall and now here at Inside the Hall. Follow him on Twitter. Contact via email.

I typically release my first set of in-season bracket projections the day after the college football national champion is crowned, but this year I thought it might help to get an extra week of results before unveiling the projections. It ...

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2020-2021 Preseason Bracketology

  • Andy Bottoms Nov 24, 2020 3
 

The long, strange college basketball offseason is nearly over, which means it’s time to go on record with my preseason bracket projections. This set of projections is always the toughest to do since there simply isn’t actual data to use, ...

As I sit down to write this, it’s completely unclear as to what will become of this college basketball season given how much things have changed in the 36 hours since the Ivy League announced the cancelation of its conference ...

Six more automatic bids were handed out on Tuesday, with one of those going to Yale as a result of the Ivy League canceling its tournament. In addition to the Ivy League champs, Gonzaga, Hofstra, North Dakota State, Northern Kentucky, ...

Championship Week is here, and six automatic bids have already been handed out with Liberty, Winthrop, Bradley, Utah State, Belmont, and East Tennessee State earning their way to the Big Dance. Five more conference championships are on the docket for ...

We are officially in the home stretch with less than two weeks until Selection Sunday and with four conference tournaments tipping off today. Another weekend filled with upsets led to some churn at the bottom of the bracket, but the ...

With less than three weeks until Selection Sunday, a pair of teams have completely turned their seasons around and are in the at-large discussion despite significant early season struggles. It’s worth noting that the committee no longer places additional emphasis ...

With less than a month until Selection Sunday, it feels like a good time to look at potential at-large candidates from outside of the top conferences. For the purposes of this exercise, I am not including teams from leagues like ...

As mentioned last week, the Selection Committee released its Top 16 seeds on Saturday. The one seeds were of no surprise, but it did confirm that for now, the committee ranks one-loss Gonzaga ahead of undefeated San Diego State in ...

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The Selection Committee is poised to release its current top four seed lines on Saturday afternoon, which over the last couple years has provided some good insight into what each iteration of the committee values. For this year in particular, ...

The prevailing narrative of this college basketball season so far has been the lack of a dominant team. Even so, Baylor, Gonzaga, Kansas, and San Diego State are beginning to create a bit of separation at the top of the ...

The unpredictability of this season took a blowtorch to last week’s projections, as two of the teams I had projected on the one line lost twice within the last seven days. There was plenty of movement throughout the bracket, and ...

As has become tradition, I took advantage of an incredibly light slate on the night of the College Football National Championship Game to churn out the first set of in-season bracket projections. The lack of a dominant team has been ...

Over the last four days, I’ve released the 68 teams in my preseason field, but it’s always fun to look at the actual matchups as well. In addition, it’s useful for me to get a little practice in following the ...

2019-20 Preseason Bracketology: 1-4 Seeds

  • Andy Bottoms Nov 4, 2019 3
 

Here are the final sixteen teams in my preseason field. The ACC leads the way with four teams on the protected seed lines, while the Big Ten and Big 12 have three teams a piece. Tomorrow I’ll put together the ...

2019-20 Preseason Bracketology: 5-8 Seeds

  • Andy Bottoms Nov 3, 2019 3
 

Today’s installment of the preseason bracketology series focuses on seed lines five through eight, which are comprised predominately of teams from the major conferences but also features the top teams from the Atlantic-10 and Mountain West. (Previously: 13-16 Seeds and ...