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Bracketology 2020: Providence, UCLA and Kansas among biggest winners

By Tristan Freeman

LAHAINA, HI - NOVEMBER 25: Cody Riley #2 and Chris Smith #5 of the UCLA Bruins line up on the lane against Kolby Lee #40 of the BYU Cougars during the second half at the Lahaina Civic Center on November 25, 2019 in Lahaina, Hawaii. (Photo by Darryl Oumi/Getty Images)
LAHAINA, HI - NOVEMBER 25: Cody Riley #2 and Chris Smith #5 of the UCLA Bruins line up on the lane against Kolby Lee #40 of the BYU Cougars during the second half at the Lahaina Civic Center on November 25, 2019 in Lahaina, Hawaii. (Photo by Darryl Oumi/Getty Images) /
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LAHAINA, HI – NOVEMBER 26: Dalton Nixon #33 of the Brigham Young Cougars tries to dribble around Udoka Azubuike #35 of the Kansas Jayhawks (Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images) /

Plenty of results from this week have changed the overall Bracketology landscape. Which teams benefitted from the madness the most?

There have been talks about the 2019-20 NCAA Basketball season not having “great” teams, meaning that anyone can lose at any time. When that happens, it can change everything going on in Bracketology. However, the past month has shown little change at the top.

Teams such as Baylor, Kansas, Gonzaga, Dayton and San Diego State just haven’t lost since the start of the new year. The AP top-25 rankings have stayed the same at the top, while four of them (excluding Dayton) have consistently been projected as No. 1 seeds in their respective regions.

That could very well change after this Saturday, with three of those teams all suffering losses. One had to lose since it was Kansas vs Baylor but the difficulty of winning all the games in league play proved to be too much for the mid-major powerhouses. Other programs tried to take advantage but many lost as well in the top-25, including the Big Ten teams continuing to beat one another up.

With just a few weeks left until Selection Sunday, Bracketology will be of the utmost importance the rest of the way. So for this week and going forward, I’ll be presenting the 10 biggest winners of the week rather than five. There are plenty of different ways to “win” though, even if a respective team loses a game this week. Ultimately though, it’s about making the NCAA Tournament for many of the teams not privileged enough to worry solely about seeding.

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