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