Bracketology from the Sports Sentimentalist- February 26th Edition
Posted by deaconcat08 on February 26, 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, Purdue
2-seeds: Duke, Villanova, Kansas State, New Mexico
3-seeds: West Virginia, Vanderbilt, Texas, Brigham Young
4-seeds: Georgetown, Ohio State, Wisconsin, Michigan State
5-seeds: Pittsburgh, Tennessee, Temple, Gonzaga
6-seeds: Butler, Richmond, Xavier, Baylor
7-seeds: Maryland, Florida State, Wake Forest, Missouri
8-seeds: Texas A & M, UNLV, UTEP, Clemson
9-seeds: Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech, Rhode Island, California
10-seeds: Florida, Illinois, Oklahoma State, Louisville
11-seeds: Northern Iowa, Cornell, Saint Mary’s, UAB
12-seeds: Marquette, Siena, Old Dominion, Connecticut
13-seeds: Mississipppi State, Utah State, Kent State, Oakland
14-seeds: Murray State, Weber State, Sam Houston State, Wofford
15-seeds: UC Santa Barbara, North Texas, Coastal Carolina, Jacksonville
16-seeds: Stony Brook, Morgan State, Robert Morris, Lehigh, Jackson State
NIT Tourney Field:
1-seeds: Utah State, Charlotte, Dayton, Ole Miss
2-seeds: Arizona State, Notre Dame, San Diego State, Cincinnati
3-seeds: Memphis, Seton Hall, Washington, South Florida,
4-seeds: Saint Louis, Marshall, Wichita State, VCU
5-seeds: Minnesota, Northwestern, St. John’s, Texas Tech
6-seeds: Tulsa, Miami-FL, William & Mary, Virginia
7-seeds: Northeastern, New Mexico State, South Carolina, Boston College
8-seeds: Louisiana Tech, Illinois State, Kent State, Oakland
Ranking of Other Postseason Contenders: North Carolina, Nevada, NC State, Rutgers, George Mason, Arkansas, Washington State, Portland, Alabama