SportsBeat KC: Joe Lunardi breaks down bracketology, the study he helped create
It’s one thing to watch a college basketball game but if your team is having a good season, you want to know where it might stand in the NCAA Tournament selection pecking order.
That’s where Joe Lunardi comes in. Lunardi has been projecting brackets since the mid-1990s and has helped turn bracketology into its own sport for ESPN. Many project brackets. No one is more popular than Lunardi, How does he do it? What are his concerns? And how did bracketology come up during a golf outing in Ireland?
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Joe Lunardi on the slice of March Madness he helped create, bracketology
Blair Kerkhoff
The Kansas City Star