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Joe Lunardi provides the latest look at his S curve, looking at the new bubble statuses of teams like Washington, Northwestern and Texas.

Blog | Conversation | March 09, 2012

Joe Lunardi provides the latest look at his S curve, and it's officially moving day on the bubble with the ACC, Big Ten, MWC, SEC and WAC tournaments getting underway.

Blog | Conversation | March 08, 2012

Joe Lunardi provides the latest look at his S Curve, and it's a big day in the Big East, with Seton Hall and South Florida both needing to advance and impress in the conference tournament in order to feel some security on Selection Sunday.

Blog | Conversation | March 07, 2012

Joe Lunardi provides the latest look at his S Curve, which has Northwestern, Seton Hall, Drexel and Xavier as the current "Last Four In" teams.

Blog | Conversation | March 06, 2012

ESPN Insider and Bracketologist Joe Lunardi looks ahead and writes a checklist that bubble teams must meet if they wish to secure one of the final 13 NCAA tournament bids.

Story | Conversation | March 05, 2012

Joe Lunardi provides the latest look at his S Curve, which shows the Creighton Bluejays doing bubble teams a big favor by winning on Sunday.

Blog | Conversation | March 04, 2012

Joe Lunardi provides a glimpse into the selection committee's daunting task by taking you inside a wild Tuesday night of college hoops that dramatically shifted the S-Curve.

Blog | Conversation | February 22, 2012

Joe Lunardi says there could be more than three teams that make this year's NCAA tournament despite a losing conference record, and that's a problem.

Blog | Conversation | February 20, 2012

Joe Lunardi provides his midweek Seed Curve update. UConn, Alabama and West Virginia find themselves in an untimely skid, while Texas may be hitting its stride.

Blog | Conversation | February 15, 2012

Joe Lunardi provides his first S-curve update of the season. See how your team is situated for the NCAA tournament as of this very moment. For UConn Huskies fans, there's no need to worry just yet.

Blog | Conversation | February 01, 2012

Joe Lunardi looks at some of the most surprising (Georgetown) and disappointing (Arizona) teams of the season thus far.

Blog | Conversation | January 16, 2012

Joe Lunardi provides an early examination of the bubble picture as the bracket begins to take shape.

Story | Conversation | December 15, 2011

When Jim Calhoun stated his UConn Huskies should be in the nation's top basketball conference, the implication was that he was referring to the ACC or the Big East. But Joe Lunardi shows that the nine-team Big 12 may be the nation's best.

Blog | Conversation | September 22, 2011

According to Joe Lunardi, the proposed Texas A&M-SEC move may be the latest in a chain of events that leads to the elimination of non-Division I football schools from BCS conferences and radically alters the format of the NCAA tournament.

Blog | Conversation | September 08, 2011

You can't get an NCAA tournament berth in November, but Joe Lunardi still found 16 games in the season's first month that will shake things up come March, including VT vs. KSU, Duke vs. Marquette and the 2K Sports Classic Championship.

Blog | Conversation | November 01, 2010

Joe Lunardi's Saturday Bracket Math update.

Blog | Conversation | March 14, 2010