Bracketology: 5 biggest questions for rest of 2019-20 season

No topic gets talked about with NCAA Basketball as much as Bracketology does. What are the top questions concerning teams and their efforts to make the Big Dance?

The non-conference portion of the 2019-20 season has been absolutely crazy. Massive upsets happening on a nightly basis have had a big Bracketology impact of respective resumes and what it’ll mean down the road. The early returns include speculation regarding how many bids certain conferences would get, as well as big named programs already starting to sweat it out.

Throughout the week, I’ve been doing a roundtable series involving each of the top individual conferences for NCAA Basketball. But this one will be a bit special, focusing solely on the bracketology implications.

For this piece, I needed special help within the Busting Brackets staff of writers. Luckily, I know a trio of guys who work on their own daily Bracketology projections. They include fellow site-expert Lukas Harkins (@hardwiredsports), who releases weekly bracketology updates for the site (daily later in the season, Zach Stearman (@prochetcbb), author of “Prophet Ratings“, and Andrew Dieckhoff (@andrewdieckhoff), who does the Dieckhoff Power Index “DPI”. You definitely should follow these three now, and especially once the bubble talk starts heating up to see where your favorite teams stand.

For this piece, I asked five questions all focused on Bracketology to the participants. And with their own knowledge based on their individual concepts, look for some in-depth answers on a complicated and ever-changing topic in college basketball. What might be right today could be dead wrong within a week. Without further ado, here are the answers and questions for Bracketology.