A special college hoops edition of the link dump:

— If you haven’t gotten caught up on the potential interplay between efficiency margin and tournament prediction, here’s an article from John Gasaway at Basketball Prospectus that talks about it.  (Basketball Prospectus)

—  Storming The Floor breaks down the Midwest, South, and East regions. I assume the West is coming soon, so check back. (Storming The Floor)

— Rush The Court has a handy guide to the tournament times, if you haven’t seen it already. (Rush The Court)

—  The announcing schedule for the NCAA Tournament First Round. Ugh, Billy Packer is doing the IU game. Also, here’s the schedule for the NIT (like you care). (Awful Announcing)

— Since you were all dying to know, here is the Bracket Project’s final matrix, as well as the overall standings using several different rubrics. While this was a better year for me personally, I didn’t even crack the top 10 in the scoring systems…which is disappointing, but I’ll live with it. Last year, the NetWire bracket (the precursor to this blog) finished in a tie for 5th place overall in the Parrish rubric.

Also noteworthy — check out the comments in the second link. There’s been quite a bit of talk that ESPN’s Joe Lunardi had a source on the committee, based upon his sudden inclusion of Villanova on Saturday night. As Bracket Project noted:

 I didn’t take a look at Lunardi’s brackets on Sunday until his final one but according to his “Bracket Math” blog entries:

At 1 am ET Sunday, he had Villanova as the 3rd team out.

At 3 pm ET Sunday, he had Villanova as the 2nd to last team in.

What changed in 14 hours? I’m not sure. You’ll have to ask him.

A big thanks to Bracket Project for all their (or rather, his) hard work in putting this thing together. Awesome stuff.