Brad-ketology: January 23rd Edition
Posted by deaconcat08 on January 23, 2012
These bracket projections are now included in the prestigious bracket project poll that can be found at: http://bracketproject.50webs.com/matrix.htm. 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.
Also, just to clarify, my bracket projection is intended to project the NCAA Tournament field if it was chosen today. Unlike some bracketologists, I am not trying to predict how each team will finish the season and then seed the teams based on that. There is one slight exception to this rule, however, and that is that I have always chosen to award the projected automatic bid for each conference to my projected best team in that conference, and not the team who is currently leading the conference standings. Given how unbalanced conference schedules are, it just seems like common sense to project that the best team in a conference will win the league championship, not the squad currently in first place.
Brad-ketology columns will be published at least twice a week (typically on Mondays and Fridays) and more often than that when it gets closer to tourney time. Please feel free to comment or debate.
NCAA Tourney Field:
1-seeds: Kentucky, Syracuse, Missouri, Ohio State
2-seeds: North Carolina, Kansas, Baylor, Duke
3-seeds: Georgetown, Michigan State, UNLV, Indiana
4-seeds: Marquette, Creighton, Seton Hall, Florida
5-seeds: UConn, Virginia, Gonzaga, Kansas State
6-seeds: Illinois, San Diego State, Michigan, Vanderbilt
7-seeds: Wisconsin, Saint Mary’s, West Virginia, Murray State
8-seeds: Mississippi State, Louisville, Wichita State, Florida State
9-seeds: Temple, Harvard, Purdue, Alabama
10-seeds: Dayton, Memphis, Minnesota, California
11-seeds: Xavier, New Mexico, Southern Miss, Cincinnati
12-seeds: Iowa State, NC State, Arkansas, Saint Louis, Stanford, Northwestern
13-seeds: Oral Roberts, Long Beach State, Davidson, Iona
14-seeds: Middle Tennessee, Cleveland State, Nevada, VCU
15-seeds: Belmont, Weber State, Akron, Bucknell
16-seeds: Norfolk State, UNC-Asheville, LIU-Brooklyn, UT-Arlington, Stony Brook, Mississippi Valley State
NIT Tourney Field:
1-seeds: Notre Dame, Brigham Young, Texas, Central Florida
2-seeds: Oregon, Colorado State, Marshall, Oklahoma
3-seeds: Northern Iowa, La Salle,Ole Miss, Arizona
4-seeds: Virginia Tech, LSU, Colorado, New Mexico State
5-seeds: UMass, Ohio, St. Joe’s, South Florida
6-seeds: Miami-FL, Wyoming, Washington, Denver
7-seeds: Missouri State, Maryland, Rutgers, South Dakota State
8-seeds: Loyola-MD, Iowa, Pittsburgh, Valparaiso
First 4 out of NIT: Wagner, Charleston, St. Bonaventure, Drake