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March 22, 2024, Expert in the radio segment on WORT-FM entitled “Math and March Madness .”
March 19, 2024, Expert in news segment on WISN (ABC affiliate in Milwaukee, WI) to discuss March Madness and bracketology
February 2, 2024, Featured Guest on Live At Four on WISC-TV in Madison, WI to discuss football analytics
April 4, 2023, featured guest on Federal News Network to discuss a data literacy bill for K12 education.
April 3, 2023, appearance on Live at Four on WISC-TV to discuss rule changes in Major League Baseball.
March 15, 2023, appearance on Live at Four on WISC-TV in Madison to discuss bracketology and how to fill out a bracket .
March 15, 2023, appearance on the evening news on Fox-6 in Milwaukee to discuss bracketology and how to fill out a bracket .
March 15, 2023. Featured on Wisconsin Radio Network segment: New pitch clock could speed up MLB games this season says UW Expert .
March 16, 2022. March Madness Bracket Help segment on Live at Four on WISC-TV in Madison.
July 30, 2021. Guest on news on WISN-TV in Milwaukee to discuss National Football League Covid planning for the 2021 season.
July 23, 2021, Guest on NBC-15 news about Olympic athletes testing positive for Covid.
July 22, 2021, Guest on WISC-TV, “Olympic athletes testing positive for Covid .”
January 28, 2021. Invited guest on the “Perpetual Notion Machine ” program on WORT-FM to discuss sports analytics and the NFC championship game, election security, and industrial engineering research, Madison, WI.
December 9, 2020. Schedule changes come quickly and often in college basketball amid pandemic . The Washington Times.
July 27, 2020. Featured expert in “MLB Already Has a Coronavirus Outbreak. What Happens Now? ” The Ringer.
July 23, 2020. Interview on 1050 Bascom Podcast, “Bringing baseball back! COVID-19 Modeling, Testing, and Contact Tracing .”
July 11, 2020. Featured expert in “America isn’t ready to bring back sports ,” Huffington Post.
June 25, 2020. Featured expert in “MLB Has a Plan for Games. But What About a Plan for Safety? ” the Ringer.
May 26, 2020. Featured expert in “Is MLB Going to Be Able to Pull This Back?” Health Experts Break Down Baseball’s Plan , the Ringer.
October 5, 2019. “UW sports analytics, bracketology and solving the opioid crisis ,” feature article about me in Bucky’s 5th Quarter on SBNation.
June 13, 2019. I was on the MIT Sports Analytics Podcast “Counterpoints” to discuss the College Football Playoff .
March 20, 2019. Using Mathematical Models To Fill Out Your March Madness Bracket , Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR), Central Time.
March 19, 2019. Filling out your NCAA bracket: Do you go with your gut or look at the statistics? Evening news segment on WISC-TV (CBS affiliate in Madison).
May 12, 2018. Whad’ya Know podcast interview with Michael Feldman
March 30, 2018. Know your Madisonian: Analytics keep UW-Madison professor running , Wisconsin State Journal by Rob Schultz
March 14, 2018. “WN@TL – Advanced Analytics for Emergency Response, Bracketology, & Beyond ” lecture viewable on YouTube . Note: this episode aired on Wisconsin Public Television’s University Place series on July 23, 2018 at 4:07pm on the Wisconsin Channel . [Link ]
March 8, 2018. Interest Down Ahead of NCAA Tournament, But Bracket Playing About Steady by Edward Graham, Morning Consult
January 2018, ASEE PRISM Magazine. “Organized chaos: From the classroom to research on emergency response to guiding graduate students, a systems engineer finds imaginative ways to make things work ” by Jennifer Pocock
March 30, 2017. 30 minute interview on WORT FM Radio 89.9 Madison on “Perpetual Notion Machine .
March 14, 2017. NBC15 in Madison. 6 o’clock and 10 o’lock news segment “UW professor talks NCAA bracket odds “
March 14, 2017. “Live at Four” WISC-TV (CBS affiliate in Madison, WI) to talk about bracketology. “Professor helps you build the perfect bracket .”
March 13, 2017. WKOW 10 o’clock evening news segment. “UW bracketology expert surprised by Badgers’ 8 seed ” My blog post about this is here .
March 13, 2017. Wisconsin State Journal: “University of Wisconsin professor offers tips for a winning March Madness bracket ,” by Nico Savidge.
March 24, 2016: Laura Albert McLay and Badger Bracketology were quoted in a blog post on Research2Reality entitled “March Madness Math: Sports Stats Put You Ahead of the Game ” by Malgosia Pakulska.
March 18, 2014: Interview on the Madison NBC affiliate evening news about the NCAA men’s basketball tournament entitled “Odds of winning lottery 1,000x greater than picking perfect NCAA bracket”.
October 22, 2014: “Gophers seventh-most likely team to make college football playoff, says U of Wisconsin statistical model ” in the StarTribune blog RandBall by Michael Rand.
October 23, 2014: “Computer model picks Gophers in top seven for college football playoff ” in the StarTribune by Michael Rand.
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November 23, 2015: “On Campus: Badger Bracketology uses model to predict the College Football Playoff ” in the Wisconsin State Journal by Nico Savidge
January 1, 2016: Interview on the Advanced Football Analytics Podcast. Access through iTunes here .
Guest on Wharton Moneyball on Wharton Business Radio (SiriusXM), February 3, 2016.
Q & A interview article in the Capital Times , February 14, 2016 (online), February 17, 2016 (print).Q & A interview article in the On Wisconsin alumni magazine , Spring 2016 issue.