Joe Lunardi's Final Full 64-Team March Madness Bracketology Projection is Weirdly Soothing

ESPN's Joe Lunardi spends most of his year predicting the field for the NCAA Tournament. He has it down to a science, known as bracketology, and had his predictions ready to go for 2020, just a few days ahead of Selection Sunday.

Then, abruptly (yet expectedly), the NCAA Tournament was cancelled. Yet Lunardi still decided to soldier on and release his final predictions, in what is an oddly soothing sight for fans to see.

He had play kicking off with Louisville taking on Akron, and it is almost painful to go through all the rest of the potential matchups. For the record, he had Gonzaga, Dayton, Baylor, and Kansas as the No. 1 seeds. The soothing part of seeing this in such strange times is thinking about something like basketball for a few minutes, with such specificity. The lines! The times! The locations! Ahh, what could've been.

Lunardi even went a step further and predicted the NIT bracket. This guy is a machine.

Teams can at least look at these brackets from Lunardi and have some sort of consolation knowing they earned a shot at postseason play. This won't remove the disappointment of the whole enterprise being canceled, but it is still something positive in these bizarre times.