Brad-ketology: January 25th Edition
Posted by deaconcat08 on January 24, 2010
Here is this week’s edition of Brad-ketology. There are just a couple of things you need to know if you haven’t read this column before. The teams are displayed below on an 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 and CIT seedings, but with so many teams electing not to play in that tourney, it makes it nearly impossible to predict the field.
NCAA Tourney Field:
1-seeds: Kentucky, Kansas, Syracuse, Villanova
2-seeds: Texas, Michigan State, Duke, Purdue
3-seeds: West Virginia, Georgetown, Tennesee, Kansas State
4-seeds: Brigham Young, Gonzaga, Temple, Pittsburgh
5-seeds: Wisconsin, Ole Miss, Georgia Tech, Butler
6-seeds: Clemson, Connecticut, Northern Iowa, Vanderbilt
7-seeds: Ohio State, Baylor, Missouri, Mississippi State
8-seeds: Florida State, Wake Forest, Xavier, New Mexico
9-seeds: Saint Mary’s, North Carolina, Rhode Island, California
10-seeds: UAB, Oklahoma State, Dayton, Texas A & M
11-seeds: UNLV, Virginia Tech, Cornell, Siena
12-seeds: Maryland, Richmond, Minnesota, Arizona State
13-16 seeds: mid-major conference champions
NIT Tourney Field:
1-seeds: Cincinnati, Louisiana Tech, Louisville, Illinois
2-seeds: Notre Dame, Washington, Wichita State, Florida
3-seeds: Northwestern, William & Mary, Tulsa, Virginia
4-seeds: Old Dominion, Seton Hall, St. John’s, Miami-FL
5-seeds: Charlotte, Texas Tech, Harvard, San Diego State
6-seeds: Marquette, Marshall, Northeastern, Michigan
7-seeds: VCU, Illinois State, UTEP, Memphis
8-seeds: Providence, George Mason, Washington State, NC State
Ranking of Other Postseason Contenders: Alabama, Iowa State, Oklahoma, Western Carolina, Charleston, Saint Louis, Nevada, Utah State, South Carolina, Boston College, South Florida, Stanford