March Madness: Scientifically Predicting The NCAA Basketball Tournament National Championship

Can a computer predict the winner of the NCAA basketball tournament, called March Madness by fans and the NCAA corporate juggernaut alike? If so, Science 2.0 will save you some time: third seed Florida will be your national champion. The prediction is from Georgia Tech's Logistic Regression/Markov Chain (LRMC) college basketball ranking system, a computerized model that has correctly chosen the men's basketball national champ in three of the last five years.  read more

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