March Madness 2026 First Round Projections

Introduction and methodology Last year I released my initial batch of March Madness projections for 2025! I tend to be decently good at the Kaggle competition for March Madness at least, and other people found them useful as well. While I am releasing these a bit late for anyone to really bake them into a bracket (blame a hectic spring training), I did want to share my predictions for the upcoming…