Ready for A Bracketology Blind Test? Can You Pick OSU and Are They In?
STILLWATER – It’s not quite like those Pepsi or Coke taste tests. I could alway spot Coke because I was always a Coke over Pepsi guy. Nothing personal because growing up in Dallas I had some good friends who had parents that worked for Pepsico. They also, at the time, had FritoLay and you know I loved Fritos and Ruffles. They have ridges as do a number of teams trying to get into the NCAA Tournament.
For your personal testing here are 10 teams that are either in the first four in, the first four out, or the next four out according to one of the two top bracketologist in America in ESPN’s Joe Lunardi and CBS Sports’ Jerry Palm.
Oklahoma State is one of those teams. Even after the 61-47 loss to Texas in the Big 12 Tournament quarterfinal, Lunardi had the Cowboys in, barely, and that could change before this story is even published. Palm had the Pokes out.
Here is our blind test. After you look it over and pick four you feel deserve in. Then you can go look and see who you picked.
| Team | Level | Record | Home | Road | Neutral | Net | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | SOS |
| A | Power 5 | 20-12 | 13-4 | 4-7 | 3-1 | 55 | 6-6 | 4-5 | 4-1 | 6-0 | 43 |
| B | Power 5 | 21-11 | 12-4 | 4-6 | 4-2 | 46 | 4-8 | 3-3 | 5-1 | 8-0 | 57 |
| C | Power 5 | 17-15 | 12-4 | 3-7 | 2-4 | 54 | 3-12 | 5-2 | 5-0 | 4-1 | 24 |
| D | Group of 5 | 24-7 | 14-4 | 6-4 | 1-2 | 22 | 1-4 | 8-1 | 13-0 | 1-2 | 23 |
| E | Power 5 | 18-15 | 11-5 | 4-7 | 3-3 | 41 | 6-12 | 4-2 | 3-1 | 5-0 | 12 |
| F | Power 5 | 20-13 | 12-2 | 4-7 | 4-2 | 44 | 1-8 | 6-4 | 7-0 | 6-0 | 18 |
| G | Power 5 | 21-11 | 10-5 | 7-6 | 4-0 | 65 | 4-5 | 4-5 | 5-0 | 8-1 | 76 |
| H | Group of 5 | 23-8 | 13-1 | 5-6 | 4-1 | 27 | 3-4 | 8-2 | 6-2 | 5-0 | 27 |
| I | Group of 5 | 23-8 | 13-2 | 7-5 | 3-1 | 34 | 2-4 | 8-3 | 7-1 | 6-0 | 40 |
| J | Group of 5 | 22-10 | 13-1 | 6-7 | 2-2 | 36 | 4-6 | 4-2 | 10-2 | 3-0 | 22 |
Pick your top four and try not to cheat and reveal identities. I know it is hard if you are a close follower of the numbers. You can find the team identities at the end of the game notes from the OSU loss to Texas in the Big 12 Tournament.