You can't make all of your tourney-pool decisions based on statistics. No magic numbers exist -- not efficiency, not adjusted scoring margin, and especially not the average salary of a school's ...

When the NCAA tournament bracket is released, Andrew Mansheim, an associate professor of mathematics at Black Hawk College, gets down to the analytics. “Every year, there’s gonna be upsets, there’s ...

This is no easy season for picking an NCAA tournament champ. By mid-February, I usually have a gut feeling about which team I'm going to put on the final line in my bracket. In 2017 that was Kansas.

Warning, analytics lovers: The next three weeks will not be easy. Like most sports, college basketball has been steadily infiltrated by math types who have built careers on analyzing every win, every ...

There’s math to the Madness. With college basketball’s wildly popular March Madness tournament starting next week, a North Carolina-based stats whiz is urging fans to crunch their numbers before ...

Despite statistical methods that help sports fans improve their brackets, the probability of a perfect bracket remains something of a mystery in mathematics. Photo illustration by Smithsonian.com; ...