I’ve got Wake #38, 10 seed. UNC #32, an 8-seed — and had them one team behind us before they beat Duke. I think a similar overall record against a harder schedule, that win being better than anything we have, 15-5 in conference and the 3 seed, and moving ahead of us in most analytic rankings probably overrides the h2h win by Wake, but it’s not by a ton.
#44-47 is the Dayton teams, so we aren’t well ahead of there, and it’s possible I’ve let my Wake bias (I think this team is really good) leak in even while working hard not to let it influence too much.
I don’t care about clicks or whatever, but if you click on QP on the bracket matrix, that’s me. It’s my 6th time officially predicting the brackets, though I’ve done it unofficially for probably the last 20 years, so far more thought than it’s worth about what goes into group decision making, etc. The last time I filled this out was 2017 (the last time we were in the mix) and I finished 2nd place if you click on his standings there. I’ve had a below average year too, so don’t take anything I say as gospel.
