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This story originally appeared in the Jackson Free Press. It was added to the Mississippi Free Press website in 2025.
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It’s February, and this is the best time of the year for college basketball fans. The ordeal of college football recruiting is past us (how did your favorite school do?), and the college fan can focus her/his attention on college hoops. It’s about a month now until the national obsession we call March Madness gets underway.

Some people can’t wait for the NCAA to choose the field. No fear, there are several Web sites out there that offer weekly predictions on who will make the NCAA Tournament, how they will be seeded and where they might play. The prospects of these conjectures coming true are dubious. But Dr. S loves to see how teams move up and down in the projected seedings.

There are several sites, but here are two of the best Dr. S has found:
http://espn.go.com/ncb/bracketology/
http://collegerpi.com/

Mississippi native Donna Ladd and partner Todd Stauffer founded the Jackson Free Press in 2002 in the capital city. The heavily awarded local newspaper did many investigations heralded across the state and nation and served as a paper of record due to its diversity, inclusion, in-depth reporting and deep connection to readers and dedication to narrative change in and about Mississippi. In 2022, the nonprofit Mississippi Free Press, founded by Ladd and JFP Associate Publisher Kimberly Griffin in 2020, purchased the journalism assets and archives of the Jackson Free Press. A Google grant through AAN Publishers enabled Newspack's integration of the JFP archives into the Mississippi Free Press website to become part of a more searchable archive of recent Mississippi history and essential journalism.