Brad’s Inaugural Brad-ketology
Posted by deaconcat08 on January 21, 2010
With college football season over and NFL playoffs as boring as ever, I’m ready to start dreaming about March. Therefore, it is time to publish the first edition of Brad-ketology (my version of NCAA/NIT mock seeding). Brad-ketology is a little different than other NCAA tourney predictors in that it is much more expansive, as it also includes the NIT field and bubble.
As far as formatting goes, teams are displayed on a S-curve, so they are ranked from left to right within each seeding line. The italicized teams are ones predicted to win their conference tourney and gain an automatic bid to the dance. For the conferences who currently have NCAA tourney teams, it is assumed that one of those teams will win their conference tourney. If not, then a stolen bid would result, and the number of at-large bids would drop. If an italicized NIT team wins their conference tourney (as I am predicting), then an at-large spot will open up in the NIT field. However, with the NIT, keep in mind that typically between 5-8 spots will be taken by small conference regular season champs who lose their conference tourneys and therefore get NIT auto bids.In years past, I have also included CBI seedings, but with so many teams electing not to play in that tourney, it makes it nearly impossible to predict the field.
Brad-ketology columns will be published at least once a week (probably on Mondays) and more often than that when it gets closer to tourney time. Let me know if you have any comments or disagreements.
NCAA Tourney Field:
1-seeds: Kentucky, Kansas, Syracuse, Texas
2-seeds: Villanova, Tennessee, Kansas State, Michigan State
3-seeds: Duke, Purdue, West Virginia, Georgetown
4-seeds: Pittsburgh, Brigham Young, Georgia Tech, Gonzaga
5-seeds: Temple, Wisconsin, Ole Miss, Clemson
6-seeds: Mississippi State, Ohio State, Butler, Northern Iowa
7-seeds: Vanderbilt, Connecticut, Baylor, Missouri
8-seeds: Xavier, Florida State, Rhode Island, Wake Forest
9-seeds: Dayton, North Carolina, New Mexico, Saint Mary’s
10-seeds: Texas A & M, UAB, New Mexico, California
11-seeds: UNLV, Washington, Oklahoma State, Cornell
12-seeds: Arizona State, Siena, Louisiana Tech, Virginia Tech
13-seeds: Cincinnati, 3 mid-major conference winners
14-16 seeds: mid-major conference champions
NIT Tourney Field:
1-seeds: Louisville, Wichita State, William & Mary, Illinois
2-seeds: Minnesota, Maryland, Richmond, St. John’s
3-seeds: Notre Dame, Marquette, Florida, Virginia
4-seeds: Tulsa, Northwestern, Marshall, Harvard
5-seeds: San Diego State, Texas Tech, VCU, Charlotte
6-seeds: Michigan, Miami-FL, Old Dominion, NC State
7-seeds: Washington State, Missouri State, Western Carolina, Illinois State
8-seeds: Northeastern, Seton Hall, Providence, George Mason
Ranking of Other Postseason Contenders: UTEP, Iowa State, Memphis, Charleston, Oklahoma, Saint Louis, Oregon, Alabama, South Carolina, Nevada, Boston College, Utah State, Southern Illinois, New Mexico State, La Salle
