Bracketology from the Sports Sentimentalist- February 20th Edition
Posted by deaconcat08 on February 20, 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.
Yyou will notice that some of the # 13 seeded conference champions are listed both in the big dance field and the NIT field. Their NIT inclusion simply shows what NIT seed that team would have if they were to lose in their conference tourney. Obviously, if they were to win their respective conference tourneys, then they would be deleted from the NIT field, and little dance at-large spots would open up. 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 thereby get NIT auto bids.
NCAA Tourney Field:
1-seeds: Kansas, Kentucky, Syracuse, Villanova
2-seeds: Purdue, Duke, Kansas State, West Virginia
3-seeds: Vanderbilt, New Mexico, Brigham Young, Michigan State
4-seeds: Pittsburgh, Tennessee, Texas, Gonzaga
5-seeds: Temple, Butler, Georgetown, Ohio State
6-seeds: Baylor, Wisconsin, Wake Forest, Richmond
7-seeds: Maryland, Xavier, Georgia Tech, Texas A & M
8-seeds: Florida State, Northern Iowa, Virginia Tech, Missouri
9-seeds: Clemson, UNLV, Dayton, Illinois
10-seeds: Oklahoma State, UTEP, Louisville, Rhode Island
11-seeds: California, Cornell, Saint Mary’s, Siena,
12-seeds: UAB, Florida, Old Dominion, San Diego State
13-seeds: Charlotte, Utah State, Oakland, Kent State,
14-seeds: Murray State, Sam Houston State, Weber State, , Charleston
15-seeds: Pacific, Belmont, North Texas, Coastal Carolina
16-seeds: Morgan State, Robert Morris, Stony Brook, Lehigh, Jackson State
NIT Tourney Field:
1-seeds: Marquette, Ole Miss, Connecticut, Mississippi State
2-seeds: South Florida, Utah State, Cincinnati, Wichita State
3-seeds: Notre Dame, Memphis, Seton Hall, Arizona State
4-seeds: Saint Louis, Washington, Minnesota, Northeastern
5-seeds: Northwestern, Virginia, William & Mary, Marshall
6-seeds: Tulsa, South Carolina, St. John’s, Texas Tech
7-seeds: North Carolina, Louisiana Tech, Arkansas, VCU
8-seeds: Michigan, Arizona, Miami-FL, New Mexico State
Ranking of Other Postseason Contenders: Illinois State, Nevada, Rutgers, Oklahoma Alabama, Oakland, Kent State, George Mason, Portland, Drexel, Iowa State