Publisher Citation Rankings - AI March Madness 2026

Publisher-level analysis of AI citation patterns during the 2026 NCAA Tournament. Ranks news outlets and analytics platforms by total citations across GPT-4o, Gemini 2.5, and Perplexity Sonar Pro, showing which publishers each AI model trusts most for basketball predictions.

Top cited publishers include ESPN, CBS Sports, KenPom, The Athletic, Barttorvik, Sports Illustrated, and NCAA.com. The citation share per model reveals whether an AI's predictions are effectively weighted toward one publisher's analysis.

As the tournament progresses, win-rate data is layered onto publisher rankings to show which cited sources correlate with correct predictions. This creates an empirical ranking of publisher reliability for NCAA Tournament forecasting.

Citation Share

The percentage of a model's total citations that come from a specific publisher domain.

Publisher Reliability

The win rate of predictions that cite a specific publisher, measuring whether citing that source correlates with accuracy.