A little less than one month from selection Monday, the NCAA baseball tournament bubble is starting to take shape. Projected at the top are season-long stalwarts like UCLA and Georgia Tech. However, ...

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The race for the NCAA Tournament’s No. 1 seeds is nearly settled. In his latest bracket projections, FOX Sports bracket forecaster Mike DeCourcy projects Duke, Florida, Michigan and Arizona on the top ...

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Maps distort reality because the Earth is a three-dimensional sphere, and any attempt to represent it on a flat surface requires compromise. It's like trying to make a rectangle out of an orange peel.

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As the calendar flips toward March, the NCAA Tournament picture has started to crystallize. For weeks, the prevailing belief across men's college basketball has been simple: A trio of No. 1 seeds are ...

In college basketball, about the only thing certain is uncertainty. The final NCAA men's tournament bracket still won’t be announced for over a month, and it will in all likelihood look quite ...

But to say they have an 87.5% chance of making the playoffs entering the season — FanGraphs might need to take a deeper look at its projection formula after spitting out those results. — This article ...

Noah Giansiracusa dispels a myth about the world's largest island. In Slate, he explains why a Mercator projection makes Greenland look far larger than it is, and why this matters. "While the choice ...

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