The format of the event will feature a 96 - team open bracket and a 12 -
team championship bracket.
Not exact matches
Especially in the Division I - North
bracket where more than half of the 12 -
team field will have a legitimate shot at advancing to the section
championship series against the South champion.
Xceleration began the tournament 6 - 2, but narrowly missed winning the crossover match that would've propelled the
team into the
championship bracket.
The Troubadours are the defending champion and enter the
championship after upsetting the No. 1
team in the
bracket for the second consecutive season.
The Cal Stars Nike Elite rolled through the Diamond
Bracket, with Mariya Moore MVP of the 16 -
team group, but their reservations made it impossible for them to play the 1 p.m. overall
championship game on July 9.
The table below compares the current
championship odds and implied probabilities at the Westgate Las Vegas Superbook with the latest probabilities from our
bracket simulator in order to find undervalued
teams.
This
team is poised for a big playoff run and I wouldn't be surprised to see them go deep in the
bracket, if not all the way to the
championship.
Last month when we first released our
bracket simulator, we identified several
teams whose odds of winning the national
championship were being undervalued.
Using our
bracket simulator tool, we also found that Duke was one of the most overvalued
teams in the nation while North Carolina is one of the top contenders for the national
championship.
Nearly a year ago, at the conclusion of the CIF State Basketball Championships, I wrote in this space that I may have been a little too harsh on the new Open Division — a new state
championship bracket created to pit the top 8
teams from the North and South, regardless of enrollment division.
We also offer our very own March Madness
Bracket Simulator where you can look at probabilities to advance for every single
team,
championship odds, matchup trends and more.
Although the actual tournament
bracket won't be released until Selection Sunday, I'm able to use Joe Lunardi's weekly Bracketology predictions throughout the regular season and then run 10,000 simulations to determine each
team's probability of winning the national
championship.
FAST BREAKDOWN: It will be a long day Sunday when the CIF sifts through 400
teams (boys and girls, north and south) to come up with the NorCal and SoCal
brackets, but the picture will be a lot clearer after the section
championships wrap up this weekend.
Pool play will take place on Thursday & Friday, and all
teams will then advance to the
championship brackets on Saturday.
The
bracket sets up a potential
championship game pitting two preseason top - 10
teams and semifinal contests featuring four of the winningest
teams in NCAA history.
Playoffs involve picking one
team, with the objective of taking that
team through a playoff
bracket and winning the
championship.