Tony Natoci is back this year to provide bracket updates as we lead up to the NCAA Tournament. This is Tony’s eighth year as a Bracket Matrix contributor and his sixth year writing Bracket Watch columns for UM Hoops. He publishes his own bracket at Heartbreak City and will outline where Michigan stands in current bracketology models, both in his own bracket and notable national brackets, along with updates and insights about the process, key bubble games to watch, and more.
It should come as no surprise that March is my favorite month of the year. The two-week stretch between the start of conference tournaments and the end of the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament is utterly perfect. It’s life-affirming. It always delivers. Add to that the fact that my partner and I both have mid-March birthdays, and the whole month quickly turns into a haze of drinks, rich dinners and chocolate cake. Picture me drifting off on the couch to the dulcet tones of a breathless Jon Rothstein talking about the Mountain West Tournament quarterfinals on CBS Sports Network.
But as wonderful as March is, February’s got a lot going for it, too. The steady drumbeat of the season is getting heavier and heavier, and the pressure is starting to wear on the coaches of teams on the bubble. February is not the month of true desperation, panic, or resignation — it’s not quite time for that. But it is the month of something that might be even more compelling — the buildup to it. February is when all of our deepest feelings start to become real. There’s no containing them anymore. The hope that this might be the year. The dread that it might not be. And the realization that it’ll all be over in the blink of an eye.
We’ve entered the business end of the college basketball season. The stories we’ll tell for years are beginning to come into focus. So why don’t you go ahead and return those seats to their upright and locked positions, folks — it’s time for our first Bracket Watch of 2025.
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