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