Mascots? Color? Caitlin Clark!!! Statistics Suggest Picking Your NCAA Bracket By Mascot or Color. Good Idea? What's It Like to Be the Men Who Guard Caitlin Clark? March Madness Is Here!

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Filling out brackets for the NCAA tournament is a rite of March. It’s also a famously inexact science, where the grandmother who picks teams based on their mascots has as good a chance of winning as the analytics geek who spent hours poring over team sheets.

You could reference the Madness Machine, The Wall Street Journal’s bracket generator based on reams of data from the NCAA and basketball statistician Ken Pomeroy. Or you could go for a more subjective approach: Is red your favorite color? Are you more of a dog person or an ornithophile? Do you like to watch teams where super tall players dominate?

As it turns out, there is a way to quantify whimsy. The Journal looked at all-time results from the NCAA tournament since 1985, when the field expanded to 64 teams, to determine which mascots and colors performed the best, and whether bigger was indeed better come March. It’s an objective look at subjectivity.

This paragraph comes from the Wall Street Journal. The article is titled: "Cats vs. Birds: The Whimsical Way to Fill Out Your NCAA Tournament Bracket." The article is written by Rosie Ettenheim and Laine Higgins. You can read the full article here:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/cats-vs-birds-ncaa-tournament-bracket-march-madness-b91b86ec

Zac and Don discuss the merits of filling out an NCAA tournament bracket according to historical data on mascots, color, and height. Zac and Don also discuss the men who have to guard Caitlin Clark in practice.

You can read the Caitlin Clark article here:

https://theathletic.com/5190331/2024/01/30/caitlin-clark-kamilla-cardoso-juju-watkins-practice-players/