Believe it or not, we now have less than 30 days until the start of the NCAA Tournament. And I’m not referring to the First Four games, either. There are only 29 days until the first Thursday of the Big Dance — one of the best days on the sports calendar.
So, with less than a month until the madness begins, I figured it was a good time to take a look at the college basketball landscape from a futures perspective. Hopefully, I can help you identify where value might lie in what looks like one of the most wide-open years I can remember.
If you examine every national champion’s statistical profile over the past 20 years, it is imperative to assess teams’ performance to the NCAA Tournament.
Any national champion will obviously receive a significant bump in its metrics for winning six additional games — with a few likely against elite competition. That does not help us identify an archetypal profile nor rule of thumb prior to the NCAA Tournament.