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AJ Dybantsa led the entire NCAA in scoring at 51% efficiency without missing significant time. The debate about whether he is the safest No. 1 pick in 2026 should have ended months ago. It hasn't, and that tells you more about our appetite for boom-or-bust narratives than it does about Dybantsa.
By Rook Calloway · 3 min read
Federal prosecutors charged 26 people on April 9 for fixing 29 college basketball games across 17 schools. The NCAA had prior investigations into nearly all of them. That detail is the whole story.
By Rook Calloway · 3 min read
Only 1 of the last 10 No. 1 overall seeds has won the NCAA Tournament. Duke just collapsed by 19 points as a -220 favorite. The bracket keeps telling us the same thing, and we keep ignoring it.
By Rook Calloway · 3 min read
Travis Steele couldn't get a return call from power programs two years ago. Now his Miami of Ohio team holds opponents under 41% effective field goal percentage and bracketologists still reach for chalk. The gap is real. The format is not.
By Rook Calloway · 3 min read
The NIL clearinghouse got hit with legal pressure yesterday over rejected deals while Arch Manning earns $5.4 million and nobody can legally define what a prohibited payment looks like. This is not an enforcement problem. It is a taxonomy problem, and building rules on undefined terms produces exactly the chaos we are watching.
By Jax Moreno · 3 min read
Analytics models are not failing March Madness—the first round's single-elimination, low-possession format is deliberately amplifying variance beyond any model's reach. The question was never whether upsets happen; it is whether predicting which ones is even the right ask.
By Jax Moreno · 3 min read
The 2025 NCAA Tournament produced only the second all-No.-1-seed Final Four in history, and the 2026 odds board is even more lopsided. NIL and the transfer portal built this top-heavy monster. The value isn't in fighting it, it's in finding the one or two teams the market priced wrong inside it.
By Nina Torres · 4 min read