Erik Haslam

Your #AnalyticallyFinal cheat sheet once again for the college basketball season. Will pin it to my profile for easy access.

Numbers have been uploaded, the final time-dependent numbers have been posted, and I've shut down the Haslametrics.com scheduled tasks for the season. You may now officially consider this season #AnalyticallyFinal. 🫡✌️

Two teams left, one game to go. Florida and Houston (8:50pm ET, CBS) for all the marbles. Here is your LAST Haslametrics.com analytical projection of the 2024-25 NCAA season: Cougars by roughly 1-1/2 with an O/U of 141.5.

Just two games remain in the college basketball season. Today brings us the title game of the CBB Crown, matching #55 Nebraska against #59 UCF. Our projection has the teams separated by less than a point. Florida-Houston tomorrow for the National Title, then we rest for seven months. 😏☀️

The early Haslametrics.com projection for Monday night.

We nap in April.

Final Four Semifinal #2 (8:49pm ET, CBS) features our top two teams in the country, #1 Duke and #2 Houston. The #1 offense (Duke) vs. the #1 defense (Houston). Here is the Haslametrics.com automated preview for that contest. Very tight projection here -- Duke by just half a point, O/U of 133.

Final Four Semifinal #1 (6:09pm ET, CBS) features #3 Florida taking on #4 Auburn. The teams met just once this season back on 2/8, with the road Gators taking down the Tigers, 90-81. Here is the Haslametrics.com automated preview for tonight's contest. We have Florida favored by 1 to 1-1/2 points.

Your Haslametrics.com analytical projections for Saturday, April 5th, 2025 start out with a couple of semifinal matchups from the CBB Crown, the undercard for the main event NCAAT clashes later on in the evening.

The NIT Championship goes down tonight in Indy as #82 UC Irvine takes on #100 Chattanooga for the title. A couple of CBB Crown quarterfinal matchups are on the slate here as well. Here are your Haslametrics.com analytical forecasts for Thursday, April 3rd, 2025.

Just 11 games total remain in the 2024-25 college basketball season. Two more get knocked out today as we start the quarterfinal round of the CBB Crown. Three days until the Final Four. Here are the Haslametrics.com analytical forecasts for Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025.

Today brings us the NIT Semifinals in Hinkle Fieldhouse, as well as more first-round action from the CBB Crown. There's also Cornhole on ESPNU. Here are the Haslametrics.com projections for Tuesday, April 1st, 2025.

No NCAAT games until Saturday, but there's CBB Crown action for the diehards. Four first-round games today including two very close, 3.5-star projections in Nebraska-ASU and Butler-Utah. Here are your Haslametrics.com forecasts (sorted by tip time) for Monday, March 31st, 2025.

The Final Four fills out today as we determine the champs of the Midwest and South Regions. Two of these teams will join Florida and Duke in San Antonio. Here are your Haslametrics.com forecasts for Sunday, March 30th, 2025.

We crown the champs of the West and East Regions today and send the first two teams to the Final Four. Here are your Haslametrics.com analytical forecasts for Saturday, March 29th, 2025.

Another four games this evening with three of our top-five teams in the mix. We'll be down to the Elite Eight after tonight's contests. Here are your Haslametrics.com forecasts for Friday, March 28th, 2025.

Alabama-BYU #AnalyticallyFinal, 103-83 w/ 3:39 remaining.

The NCAA Tournament resumes tonight with four quality Sweet Sixteen contests. We'll trim the field back to 12 after this evening. Seven of the eight teams competing tonight fall within our top-15. Here are your Haslametrics.com forecasts for Thursday, March 27th, 2025.

The long-awaited, much-anticipated CBI Championship goes down today with #149 Cleveland State facing off against #108 Illinois State. Two NIT Quarterfinal games also on the slate. Yeehaw. Here are the Haslametrics.com projections for Wednesday, March 26th, 2025.

Another slow night of college hoops as we creep towards the Sweet Sixteen on Thursday. A pair of NIT Quarterfinal games and a pair of CBI Semifinal games for you on this day. Here are your Haslametrics.com analytical forecasts for Tuesday, March 25th, 2025.

CBI Quarterfinal action today and nothing else. Good day to catch up on sleep. Here are the Haslametrics.com analytical projections for Monday, March 24th, 2025.

We'll be down to the Sweet Sixteen after today's games conclude. It's the final eight games of the second round with a little bit of NIT and CBI action tossed into the mix. Enjoy your Sunday! Here are all the Haslametrics.com forecasts for March 23rd, 2025.

Purdue has gone #AnalyticallyFinal on McNeese at the 5:46 mark, leading 71-47.

It took Purdue less than seven minutes to score 20 points vs. McNeese. It took Clemson 25-1/2 minutes.

Per our analytics, Michigan State still hasn't had a negatively rated performance since February 11th, a four-point home loss to Indiana. They have now outperformed their season norm in a whopping 10 straight games. An interesting contrast vs. the first dozen or so games of their season.

The second round of the NCAAT gets underway today. Lots of chalk in the opening round translates to some awesome second-round clashes, including Houston-Gonzaga (two top-10 teams) and Auburn-Creighton. Here are all your Haslametrics.com projections for Saturday, March 22nd, 2025.

Day Two of the first round of the NCAAT forthcoming. Hopefully, some more competitive finishes than Day One -- maybe even an overtime or two. Here are all your Haslametrics.com analytical projections for Friday, March 21st, 2025.

It's time.

Another 11 games today, the two NCAAT play-ins and nine matchups from the NIT. Xavier-Texas (9:10pm ET, truTV) is the 3.5-star game of the day. Tomorrow begins the real Madness. Here are all your Haslametrics.com analytical forecasts for Wednesday, March 19th, 2025.

North Carolina's win over SDSU on Tuesday earned the Tar Heels a huge +56.1 game efficiency score, the team's highest all season. It was also UNC's best-rated defensive performance of the year and their third-best offensive performance of the year. UNC is now #3 nationally in our Momentum metric.

North Carolina's win over SDSU on Tuesday earned the Tar Heels a huge +56.1 game efficiency score, the team's highest all season. It was also UNC's best-rated defensive performance of the year and their third-best offensive performance of the year. UNC is now #3 nationally in our Momentum metric.

North Carolina has gone #AnalyticallyFinal on San Diego State at the 11:31 mark with the Tar Heels leading 69-36. Game over. Watch Trading Places on AMC.

We start off the real postseason with nine games today, two play-ins for the NCAA Tournament and seven contests in the NIT. North Carolina-San Diego State is the obvious attraction of the day, earning 3.5 out of four stars. Here are all your Haslametrics.com forecasts for Tuesday, March 18th, 2025.

Haslametrics.com Top-15 Defensive Efficiency (points per 100 possessions) going into today -- NCAAT teams only. Efficiencies displayed are for possessions where game outcome is still in doubt (i.e. an #AnalyticallyFinal has not yet been achieved).

Haslametrics.com Top-15 Offensive Efficiency (points per 100 possessions) going into today -- NCAAT teams only. Efficiencies displayed are for possessions where game outcome is still in doubt (i.e. an #AnalyticallyFinal has not yet been achieved).

The tentative analytical projections from Haslametrics.com have been released for the NCAA Tournament. Here are the first four days, sorted by tip time.

The final set of home-brewed Bracketology Deserves this season. A reminder that the Deserves are uniquely based on a blanket algorithm and utilize criteria similar to the Selection Committee's -- except that all the metrics used are sourced from Haslametrics.com.

Wisconsin-Michigan is a mason's convention.