When CBS unveils the bracket for the 2021 NCAA men's basketball tournament at 6 p.m. ET on Sunday, all analysis and regional breakdowns will come with a caveat: Nobody knows anything.
Or, at least, we don't know as much as we typically do at this time of year, when we set out to find overrated and underrated teams entering March Madness. One of the many offshoots of this COVID-infected season has been a dearth of non-conference games, and therefore a dearth of cross-reference points. How can we tell how good a given team and its opponents are in the grander scheme of college basketball if they've spent 80% of their seasons beating up on one another?