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 ...

Bracket math isn't an exact science, but for years mathematicians have told us that the odds of picking a perfect NCAA tournament bracket are a staggering 1 in 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 (that's 9.2 ...

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 ...

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; ...

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.