Everybody makes bold predictions before and during the NCAA Basketball season, but no one checks back on how accurate their predictions were. We’re doing that.
The NCAA Basketball season is officially in the books following Virginia‘s first national championship and, as we reflect on the season that was, it’s also time to look back at all the things we thought were going to happen.
Every sport is unpredictable but college basketball is a different animal due to the random nature of the game and inconsistency of the college athletes playing it. That doesn’t deter us from trying, though.
One of the biggest criticisms of prediction-makers and the like is the fact that no one holds them accountable to what they say. How many times have you heard someone say one thing and then say something completely contradictory the next day? Or throw something outlandish out there for whatever reason only to have it be forgotten about by the next news cycle?
That’s not going to happen here! This of the first of what will be an annual “prediction review” where I go back through all the big predictions I made during the year so you can either see how smart I am or have more proof that I don’t know anything.
I wrote three predictions columns this year – one before the start of the season, one before the start of conference play, and one before the start of the NCAA Tournament. How’d I do on those? Let’s find out.