BRACKETOLOGY

NCAA Basketball's postseason tournament has created a whole new science called bracketology. WIKIPEDIA has a definition that is useful.

"Bracketology is the process of predicting the field of the NCAA Basketball Tournament, named as such because it is commonly used to fill in the tournament brackets for the postseason. It incorporates some method of predicting what the NCAA Selection Committee will use as its Ratings Percentage Index in order to determine at-large (non-conference winning) teams to complete the field of 65 teams, and, to seed the field by ranking all teams from first through sixty-fifth. ESPN's Joe Lunardi is the inventor of the term "bracketology", starting first as the owner and editor of the Blue Ribbon College Basketball Yearbook and ending up with a gig as the resident bracketologist on ESPN."

It is a fairly sophisticated process having to do with binary functions (whatever they are) and since mathematics still largely remains a mystery, I won't attempt an explanation. Bracketology is essentially an educated guess as to the best teams in America and how they compare to one another. In there are strange words like RPI, "bubble," "body of work" that generally have different meanings as to how they are used in bracketology compared to the rest of life.

Bracketology then leads to predicting, as you work your way through the match-ups to predict the Final Four. This year's number one seeds: Kansas, Syracuse, Duke, Kentucky. Number two seeds: my beloved Buckeyes, Villanova, Kansas State, West Virginia.

My Final Four predictions?

OHIO STATE (ELIMINATING KANSAS)

KANSAS STATE (ELIMINATING SYRACUSE)

KENTUCKY

VILLANOVA

And the winner?(Sorry Buckeyes) KENTUCKY

Have fun