So – we all know that I have my bracketology page. We all know that I will likely do horrible at predicting who will be in the tournament. And yet, we all know that I will continue to try and come up with a bracket.

Well, this was a fun weekend for me and my family. Elizabeth is a huge fan of NSYNC and Joey Fatone. And we found out that Joey was doing a limited starring in Broadway’s & Juliet. I love Broadway shows. Elizabeth loves Joey Fatone. How could we possibly pass this opportunity up? So, we dragged Katie and Charlie with us Saturday morning on the train to New York so we could see Joey Fatone. To be fair, the kids were willing participants and had a great time.

Of course, this meant that we would spend a large portion of our weekend on the train. And so while I still need to fix my data pull scripts, I decided that I would create my version of the Bubble Watch.

I was angry with ESPN because of their analytical model – it seems ridiculous to me that it basically thinks 14 of the 16 SEC teams are going to make the tournament. It has finally started to push the teams in 13th and 14th place to somewhere between 30-40%, some of those teams were over 50% before the weekend began.

So, I decided that I would make my own bubble watch. It was a tremendous amount of work, but thanks to delays, I also had 17 hours of time on the train with poor internet access.

So my bracketology page has begun for 2025 – in the format of tracking the bubble teams. It is long and rambling and a pretty good tracker of all the teams on the bubble (and a few teams that really have no chance). I still have to catch up my comments on the Mountain West and Atlantic 10, but I am so tired. It was a really fun weekend, but it also was a long weekend. And I can’t let myself get too sleep deprived just yet. I am getting older and simply can’t stay up as late as I used to – lets save that sleep deprivation for at least when the conference tournament games are happening.

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