Bracketology from the Sports Sentimentalist- March 9th Edition
Posted by deaconcat08 on March 9, 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. The bolded teams have already won an auto bid to either the NCAA or NIT tournament. 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 will 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 (ex: Lipscomb).
NCAA Tourney Field:
1-seeds: Kansas, Kentucky, Syracuse, Purdue
2-seeds: Duke, West Virginia, Villanova, Kansas State,
3-seeds: New Mexico, Ohio State, Michigan State, Wisconsin
4-seeds: Pittsburgh, Vanderbilt, Tennessee, Temple
5-seeds: Brigham Young, Butler, Xavier, Maryland
6-seeds: Baylor, Georgetown, Richmond, Gonzaga
7-seeds: Texas A & M, Louisville, Missouri, California
8-seeds: Texas, Northern Iowa, Oklahoma State, UTEP
9-seeds: Marquette, UNLV, Virginia Tech, Florida State
10-seeds: Wake Forest, Clemson, Saint Mary’s, Georgia Tech
11-seeds: Notre Dame, Old Dominion, Siena, Cornell
12-seeds: Utah State, Florida, Illinois, San Diego State
13-seeds: Memphis, Ole Miss, Kent State, Murray State
14-seeds: Oakland, Wofford, Weber State, Sam Houston State
15-seeds: UC Santa Barbara, Morgan State, Troy, East Tennessee State
16-seeds: Quinnipiac, Vermont, Lehigh, Winthrop, Jackson State
NIT Tourney Field:
1-seeds: Seton Hall, Arizona State, South Florida, Washington
2-seeds: UAB, Mississippi State, Minnesota, Rhode Island
3-seeds: Connecticut, Dayton, Marshall, Saint Louis
4-seeds: Cincinnati, Charlotte, Tulsa, Wichita State
5-seeds: Northwestern, William & Mary, VCU, Northeastern
6-seeds: Miami-FL, St. John’s, Kent State, Oakland
7-seeds: North Carolina, New Mexico State, Texas Tech, Nevada
8-seeds: NC State, Coastal Carolina, Stony Brook, Lipscomb
First 4 out of NIT: Louisiana Tech, Alabama, Illinois, Arizona