MSIS $5303$

NCAA Class Madness Scheduling $2024$ Version $($V$\mathrm{.}1)$

Each year, there are many complaints about how the NCAA Men$$s Basketball Committee seeds

and schedules teams in the $68-$team single elimination tournament to determine the National

Champion. It is inevitable that somebody is unhappy. We will approach a portion of the task by

using our modeling skills to generate an alternative schedule that may or may not differ from the

actual $$ your task is twofold $$ both to generate a schedu

le using OUR parameters in a LP$/$IP

model and then compare this to the actual tournament bracket $($using a variety of metrics$)$