The debate over expanding the NCAA men's basketball tournament isn’t really a debate. It's just a math equation. While the consensus in college sports is that expansion from 68 teams to 72 or 76 is ...

The main criticism of jumping from a 68-team field to a 72- or 76-team field is that power conferences would get the new spots over mid-majors. The debate over NCAA tournament expansion continues to ...

Two months after tabling a proposal to expand the National Collegiate Women’s Hockey Championship tournament from eight to 10 teams, the NCAA Division I Competition Oversight Committee is set to once ...

Because SEC commissioner Greg Sankey and a gang of television executives are angling to expand the NCAA tournament from 68 to 72, 76 or 80 teams, we are forced to consider not merely who’ll make this ...

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 edition of Bracket Math includes games through Feb. 19. Rankings reflect an up-to-date S-curve from yours truly, posing as one hypothetical member of the NCAA men's basketball committee. Notes on ...

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.