Is March NOT the best month of the year for basketball? Every year college hoops fans go into the NCAA® tournament with the high hope of creating a perfect bracket, and the more realistic aspiration that every game in the tournament will be a nail-biting thrill. This year, even more so than years past, the madness has delivered.
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The Round of 16 is upon us, and all four No. 1 seeds are still alive. Lost among the chatter of Michigan State’s upset is that the No. 1 seeded team in the Midwest is actually alive and well. Our finals prediction of Kansas over North Carolina remains intact and our 3rd NCAA® Final Four® entrant, Duke, is also still alive. We’ll preview the 2nd weekend of basketball, but first a quick summary of how we did in the initial...
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With the arrival of spring, everyone knows it is time for warmer weather, blooming flowers, and beating your friends with your March Madness® brackets. While we can’t help with picnic plans or allergy relief, Bing Predicts returns again to provide forecasts and insights into this year’s NCAA® tournament for both men’s and women’s draws to help you fill out your bracket.
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As the official bracketologist of the NCAA, we wanted to make sure we could create a bracket experience that understood the needs of bracket builders of all types. Use Bing Predicts to get this edge this March.
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Since we began Bing Predicts in 2014, we’ve made lots of predictions around some of the most important cultural moments. Today, we’re announcing that we’ll be partnering once again with the NCAA to build off the great work we did with them last year, and expand our ability to deliver Bing predictions to passionate college basketball fans. Together with the NCAA, Bing is creating the NCAA® March Madness® bracket experience.
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Three weeks ago, we launched the site Are We In?, which gives you the latest status for whether your favorite college basketball team will or won’t make the tournament. Early feedback has been positive, and some users had questions around the insight for how probabilities match with our projections. In this blog we’ll describe in more detail the numbers and use visualizations from the newly-released Power BI “Publish to Web&rdquo...
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The Bing intelligent bracket experience put Bing Predicts technology to work in perhaps the most challenging arena in sports, the NCAA Men’s and Women’s Division I College Basketball Tournament. With 9.2 quintillion possible combinations, this has been by far one of the most difficult set of predictions we have done to date. And we picked a great year to start: since the NCAA matchups were announced just three weeks ago, March Madness has lived up...
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March Madness® is here! And the Bing team has been cooking up something special for all you bracket builders out there. For the first time ever, Bing has partnered with the NCAA® to gain unprecedented access to over 10 seasons worth of Division I basketball data – and we’re putting that knowledge to work for you. Combined with the industry-leading predictions of our Bing Predicts team, we’re giving bracket builders the ultimate March Madness...
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At Bing, we’re constantly looking for ways to help people find the information they need to make confident decisions. From the 2014 midterm elections, to the NFL season, and more recently, the Grammy’s and Oscars, Bing has taken on some exciting moments with these major events. With the arrival of spring, we have one thing on our minds: March Madness. Many of us here at Bing are gearing up to fill out our March Madness brackets and we know we aren...
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With the NCAA college basketball tournament teams selected Sunday, people across the country will be filling out their brackets. To get in the spirit, we are rolling out dedicated content experiences to the Bing Sports app so you can get the most out of the tournament. Bing Sports App for Windows 8 You can keep up to date with what’s happening with your team with up to the minute NCAA news, a schedule of the games and a dynamic bracket that...
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