Bracketology from the Sports Sentimentalist- February 28th Edition
Posted by deaconcat08 on February 28, 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.
You 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: Syracuse, Kansas, Kentucky, Purdue
2-seeds: Duke, Kansas State, Villanova, West Virginia
3-seeds: Vanderbilt, New Mexico, Ohio State, Wisconsin
4-seeds: Michigan State, Pittsburgh, Tennessee, Georgetown
5-seeds: Temple, Gonzaga, Butler, Brigham Young
6-seeds: Richmond, Xavier, Texas, Baylor
7-seeds: Texas A & M, Maryland, Missouri, Oklahoma State
8-seeds: California, UTEP, Northern Iowa, Florida State
9-seeds: Clemson, Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech, Wake Forest
10-seeds: UNLV, Louisville, Cornell, Saint Mary’s
11-seeds: UAB, Rhode Island, Marquette, Illinois
12-seeds: Florida, Siena, Utah State, Old Dominion
13-seeds: Connecticut, Notre Dame, Kent State, Oakland
14-seeds: Murray State, Weber State, Sam Houston State, Wofford
15-seeds: North Texas, UC Santa Barbara, Coastal Carolina, Stony Brook
16-seeds: Jacksonville, Morgan State, Robert Morris, Lehigh, Jackson State
NIT Tourney Field:
1-seeds: Mississippi State, Dayton, San Diego State, Ole Miss
2-seeds: Seton Hall, Minnesota, South Florida, Memphis
3-seeds: Cincinnati, Charlotte, Washington, Arizona State
4-seeds: Saint Louis, Marshall, Wichita State, Northwestern
5-seeds: Tulsa, William & Mary, Virginia, VCU
6-seeds: New Mexico State, Northeastern, Texas Tech, Miami-FL
7-seeds: North Carolina, NC State, St. John’s, Louisiana Tech
8-seeds: Kent State, Oakland, Nevada, Illinois State
Ranking of Other Postseason Contenders: Rutgers, South Carolina, Boston College, Arizona, Portland, Washington State, Alabama