Bubble, NCAA and Madness

Bubble Watch 2025: Conference locks for men's March Madness
Teams with Lock status have at least a 95% chance to make the tournament, according to the BPI forecast. (Yes, this means that 5% of the time, a team marked as a lock will miss the tourney. We set the threshold there as a nod to the traditional standard for significance testing.)
March Madness bubble watch: Panic meter for high-major college basketball teams in NCAA Tournament hunt
Life on the March Madness bubble comes with a slim margin for error as college basketball teams set their sights on an at-large berth in the NCAA Tournament. High-profile programs like North Carolina and Arkansas are well-aware of that reality and have been teetering on the projected cut line for much of the season.
Bracketology Bubble Watch: Arkansas, BYU and VCU boost their NCAA Tournament résumés with big wins
BYU was again the big winner among bubble teams in action Saturday. I got a chance to see the Cougars live at Cincinnati two weeks ago. It was not a great performance in a blowout loss to the Bearcats.
NCAA Tournament women’s bubble watch: Virginia Tech, Ivy League and Fairfield
There is a week left in the regular season for the four major conferences and teams have their final few chances to get quality wins and avoid bubble-bursting losses.
March Madness bracket tracker: Latest look at who's in, out and on NCAA Tournament bubble
Here's a look at how the NCAA Tournament bracket projects as men's college basketball heads into late February. Who's in, out and on the bubble?
Bracketology Bubble Watch: Gonzaga is closer to the NCAA Tournament cut line than it is used to
Gonzaga has an unusual tournament résumé. No team in the at-large pool has a big of a difference between how the predictive metrics measure it than the resume quality metrics do. The predictive metrics have the Bulldogs at 11.
Bracketology Bubble Watch: North Carolina, Nebraska stay alive; West Virginia, Georgia look to build résumés
North Carolina beat another ACC also-ran in Florida State on Monday to stay afloat while waiting to get its shot at Duke. The ...
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NHL Bubble Watch: Projecting playoff hopes for all 32 teams
Though a few teams are locked in at the top (and bottom), many spots remain up for grabs. Plus, which players must step up ...
Gonzaga back on the bubble in latest NCAA Tournament projections
It’s odd to see the Gonzaga Bulldogs listed as an NCAA Tournament bubble team, but that’s the situation heading into the final week of the regular season follow ...
A renowned market strategist who called the dot-com bubble warns US stocks are at 'serious risk' as tech analyst optimism starts to sour
Waning analyst optimism "is potentially a big risk when we are at nose-bleed-high valuations and optimism," writes Albert ...
Men’s college basketball bubble watch: TCU arrives, SEC hopefuls take hits in stretch run
This was a big separation week, as we welcomed five more teams into the utopian realm of Lockdom. The bubble is shrinking.
Above, on, or below the bubble? Gauging the Gophers’ tourney hopes
Charlie Creme's updated bracket projection slots the Gophers as a No. 10 seed in the Birmingham Regional, where they would ...
Bubbles that break rules: A fluid discovery that defies logic
A team led by researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill have made an extraordinary discovery that is reshaping our understanding of ...