How important are early-season results?

    When it comes to teams in the Big 6 (BCS) conferences, you can argue that early-season NCAA basketball games are not absolutely critical to post-season aspirations.  That’s true to a point, assuming the team in question wins enough conference games or beats enough of its league’s heavyweights.  But without some significant out-of-conference wins, NCAA selection becomes more questionable.  That’s why Bracketville posts Key Games throughout the season as a way to look at potentially meaningful games.