Originally Published: March 18, 2009
Giant Killers: History Lessons
Learning from the past makes forecasting upsets much easier.
As we have rolled out our Giant-Killer predictions for first-round upsets in the NCAA tournament, we've been getting a lot of queries that turn out to be different versions of the same question:
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Giant Killer Stories
- Mar. 18: Finding upsets with history
- Mar. 17: Upsets in the Midwest and West
- Mar. 16: Giant Killing in the East and South
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- Mar. 21: Cleveland State!
- Mar. 20: Licking Our Wounds
- Mar. 20: Saturday Preview
- Mar. 20: Day One: Hot Model
- Mar. 19: Late-Night Musings
- Mar. 18: Last-Minute Reminders
- Mar. 17: Commenting on Comments
- Mar. 16: Killed by the committee?
- Mar. 16: Clearing up confusion
- Mar. 15: First Round: Killer Matchups
- Mar. 15: Now it's for real
- Mar. 15: Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah
- Mar. 14: New Stats, New Thoughts
- Mar. 14: Clean-Up Day
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