Bracketology from the Sports Sentimentalist- February 7th Edition
Posted by deaconcat08 on February 7, 2010
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, Kentucky, Villanova
2-seeds: Purdue, West Virginia, Duke, Kansas State
3-seeds: Tennesee, Texas Georgetown, Wisconsin
4-seeds: Michigan State, Gonzaga, New Mexico, Butler
5-seeds: Northern Iowa, Brigham Young, Vanderbilt, Ohio State
6-seeds: UNLV, Pittsburgh, Temple, Georgia Tech
7-seeds: Wake Forest, Texas A & M, Baylor, Missouri
8-seeds: Rhode Island, Saint Mary’s, Siena, Cornell
9-seeds: Maryland, Richmond, Florida State, Xavier
10-seeds: Clemson, Charlotte, Ole Miss, Dayton
11-seeds: Florida, Louisville, California, UAB
12-seeds: Illinois, Oklahoma State, Virginia Tech, UTEP
13-16 seeds: mid-major conference champions
NIT Tourney Field:
1-seeds: Mississippi State, Connecticut, Notre Dame, Wichita State
2-seeds: Old Dominion, San Diego State, Virginia, Tulsa
3-seeds: Marquette, Louisiana Tech, Cincinnati, Washington
4-seeds: Arizona State, South Florida, Memphis, VCU
5-seeds: Texas Tech, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Northwestern
6-seeds: North Carolina, Northeastern, William & Mary, Utah State
7-seeds: South Carolina, Missouri State, Seton Hall, New Mexico State
8-seeds: George Mason, Miami-FL, Providence, Arizona
Ranking of Other Postseason Contenders: Marshall, Washington State, Saint Louis, Nevada, Drexel, NC State, St. John’s, Iowa State, Illinois State, Alabama, Boston College