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If you read part one of my feast week megapreview last week, you’ll remember that I left one tournament off the list: the Players Era Championship . Though it’s just the second year of this event, it looms over the rest of Feast Week like the Burj Khalifa over the Dubai skyline. It’s so astronomically massive that even the best of the “other” events look tiny. Consider that over four days in Las Vegas we’ll see: ·      27 games contested by 18 teams ·      13 of these 18 tea

It’s the largest concentration of college hoops until the maelstrom of Championship Week in early March. It features pivotal neutral site contests that will impact who makes the March Madness field and shape the contours of the bracket. It’s the biggest week (ish) of the nonconference schedule. It overlaps with college football’s rivalry weekend, the regular season’s last gasp, to create an apex moment in the college sports calendar. What is it? It’s Feast Week (is that an ES

It took until Sunday of the first weekend, but the NCAA tournament finally feels like it has arrived. A seemingly abnormal spate of...

Periodically throughout this year's tournament I'll post a random assortment of observations and commentary. I'll major on the pursuit of...

By now, if you've followed this site, you're familiar with my aim , digested my Perfect Bracket Parameters , and received my invitation ...

Just two days remaining until the best weekend in sports: the first two rounds of March Madness! What better way to celebrate than join...

The last week has been a bit of a whirlwind for me, so I wasn’t able to meet my goal of getting a Seedigami post up before Selection...

After a fun (to me, at least… I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did) historical jaunt through past tournaments , it’s now time to do...

Back in my first post , I wrote a de facto vision statement for the Perfect Bracket Project: to make the impossible a reality by...

Crazy as it may sound, we are within a month of Selection Sunday (aka the Greatest Day in the Sports Year). Given that I’ve promised to...

Upsets are as inseparable from the NCAA Tournament as Reese’s cups are from my digestive tract. Trust me, at any given moment there’s at...

Ever since I started filling out NCAA tournament brackets (the halcyon years of the mid-90’s), I’ve dreamt about filling out a perfect...