FiveThirtyEight.com Gives the Cats a 50% Chance of Victory

by:Jonathan Schuette04/06/14
[caption id="attachment_155919" align="alignnone" width="600"]via Salon.com via Salon.com[/caption] Throughout the NCAA Tournament, famed political predictor Nate Silver and his team of statisticians have been giving live win probability updates for every team remaining in the field. And after the dust had settled in Dallas North Texas last night, Silver gave his final prediction on who had the highest probability to win the NCAA tournament. Unlike Vegas, Silver's model thinks tomorrow night's contest is a coin flip, giving each team a 50% chance to cut down the nets. [caption id="attachment_155951" align="alignnone" width="175"]via FiveThirtyEight.com via FiveThirtyEight.com[/caption] The interactive bracket can be found by following the link below. [FiveThirtyEight.com] [Updated from earlier when FiveThirtyEight's model said Kentucky had a 55% chance to win.]

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