Sports have the power to bring friends and family together, unite
communities and inspire future generations. That’s why we’re so excited
to be partnering with the NCAA® to make Google Cloud its official public
cloud provider.
As part of its journey to the cloud, the NCAA is migrating 80+ years of
historical and play-by-play data, from 90 championships and 24 sports,
to
Google Cloud Platform (GCP). To start, the NCAA will tap into decades of historical basketball data using BigQuery, Cloud Spanner, Datalab, Cloud Machine Learning and Cloud Dataflow,
to power the analysis of team and player performance. In partnership
with Turner Sports, our team will build a data-driven bracketology
competition using historic NCAA data that will be integrated with public
datasets, and data captured from live broadcasts. Fans and NCAA members
will be able to search, compare and analyze team and player
performance, as well as receive near real-time simulations for
tournament analysis and forecasting. This will all kick off ahead of
March Madness in 2018.
The NCAA also plans to use this data to create analysis workflows to
build descriptive, predictive and diagnostic outputs that will help
objectively determine and analyze the selection and seeding process
across men’s and women’s sports. As part of this collaboration, we’ve
also become the official NCAA Cloud Partner, in partnership with Turner
Sports and CBS Sports, starting with the 2017-18 NCAA Division I men’s
and women’s basketball seasons.
and
students. We’re proud to support that mission by helping the NCAA use
data and machine learning to better engage with its millions of fans,
nearly half-million college athletes and more than 19,000 teams. Game
on!
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