Brad-ketology February 1st Edition
Posted by deaconcat08 on February 1, 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: Kansas, Syracuse, Villanova, Kentucky
2-seeds: Michigan State, Purdue, West Virginia, Texas
3-seeds: Georgetown, Duke, Tennesee, Kansas State
4-seeds: Vanderbilt, Pittsburgh, Georgia Tech, Wisconsin
5-seeds: Brigham Young, Gonzaga, Butler, Northern Iowa
6-seeds: Temple, Baylor, Ohio State, Missouri
7-seeds: Clemson, New Mexico, Florida State, Wake Forest
8-seeds: Xavier, Ole Miss, Saint Mary’s, Mississippi State
9-seeds: Rhode Island, UNLV, Connecticut, Siena
10-seeds: Texas A & M, UAB, Oklahoma State, Cornell
11-seeds: North Carolina, California, Charlotte, Dayton
12-seeds: Richmond, Cincinnati, Illinois, Maryland
13-16 seeds: mid-major conference champions
NIT Tourney Field:
1-seeds: Virginia Tech, UTEP, Wichita State, Louisville
2-seeds: Florida, Tulsa, San Diego State, Arizona State
3-seeds: William & Mary, Virginia, Louisiana Tech, Marquette
4-seeds: Minnesota, Notre Dame, Miami-FL, Seton Hall
5-seeds: Washington, South Florida, Northwestern, St. John’s
6-seeds: Memphis, Providence, Harvard, Texas Tech
7-seeds: Old Dominion, VCU, South Carolina, Northeastern
8-seeds: George Mason, Michigan, Marshall, Arizona
Ranking of Other Postseason Contenders: NC State, Illinois State, Utah State, Oklahoma, Missouri State, Nevada, Iowa State, New Mexico State, Boston College, Alabama, Washington State, Saint Louis, Kent State