Bracketology from the Sports Sentimenalist- February 5th Edition
Posted by deaconcat08 on February 5, 2010
As you can see, I have slightly changed the title of my “brad-ketology” column because it is now being featured on the national Bracket Project Matix under the nickmae “SS” for sports sentimentalist. This matrix is the most comprehensive source of bracektology, as it averages the predictions of the top 55 bracketologists in the country. It is updated daily and can be found here: http://bracketproject.50webs.com/matrix.htm. Since I now have a place on the matrix, I may update my bracketology more frequently so that I can help keep the matrix as accurate as possible.
Just a reminder, the teams below 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.
NCAA Tourney Field:
1-seeds: Kansas, Syracuse, Villanova, Kentucky
2-seeds: Purdue, West Virginia, Texas, Duke
3-seeds: Michigan State, Tennesee, Kansas State, Vanderbilt
4-seeds: Georgetown, Wisconsin, Brigham Young, Gonzaga
5-seeds: New Mexico, Temple, Butler, Northern Iowa
6-seeds: Pittsburgh, Georgia Tech, Baylor, Ohio State
7-seeds: Clemson, Wake Forest, Texas A & M, Missouri
8-seeds: Xavier, Rhode Island, UNLV, Saint Mary’s
9-seeds: Siena, Cornell, Florida State, Ole Miss
10-seeds: Oklahoma State, Maryland, Charlotte, Richmond
11-seeds: Mississippi State, Louisville, California, UAB
12-seeds: Dayton, UTEP, Florida, Virginia Tech
13-16 seeds: mid-major conference champions
NIT Tourney Field:
1-seeds: Old Dominion, Illinois, Virginia, Tulsa
2-seeds: Cincinnati, Connectict, San Diego State, Arizona State
3-seeds: Wichita State, Memphis, North Carolina, Louisiana Tech
4-seeds: Notre Dame, Marquette, South Florida, Minnesota
5-seeds: Northwestern, Washington, South Carolina, Texas Tech
6-seeds: Northeastern, VCU, William & Mary, Seton Hall
7-seeds: Miami-FL, Arizona, Harvard, Providence
8-seeds: George Mason, St. John’s, Utah State, Oklahoma
Ranking of Other Postseason Contenders: Missouri State, Nevada, New Mexico State, Michigan, NC State, Boston College, Marshall, Saint Louis, Alabama, Iowa State, Illinois State, Washington State, Drexel
