Brad-ketology: February 24th Edition
Posted by deaconcat08 on February 24, 2013
Here are my latest NCAA and NIT bracket projections. 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. 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 Fridays and Sundays) and more often than that when it gets closer to tourney time. These bracket projections are included in the prestigious bracket project poll that can be found at: http://bracketproject.50webs.com/matrix.htm.
NCAA Tourney Field:
1-seeds: Indiana, Duke, Gonzaga, Michigan
2-seeds: Florida, Kansas, Miami-FL, Arizona
3-seeds: Georgetown, Louisville, Syracuse, New Mexico
4-seeds: Michigan State, Kansas State, Oklahoma State, Ohio State
5-seeds: Wisconsin, Marquette, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh
6-seeds: Butler, Oregon, NC State, Oklahoma
7-seeds: UNLV, Saint Louis, San Diego State, Cincinnati
8-seeds: Colorado State, Wichita State, VCU, Memphis
9-seeds: Minnesota, Illinois, North Carolina, UCLA
10-seeds: Missouri, Colorado, California, Iowa State
11-seeds: Creighton, La Salle, Temple, Villanova
12-seeds: Middle Tennessee, Belmont, Kentucky, Ole Miss, Saint Mary’s, Boise State
13-seeds: Louisiana Tech, Akron, Bucknell, Stephen F. Austin
14-seeds: Detroit, South Dakota State, Harvard, Davidson
15-seeds: Stony Brook, Long Beach State, Montana, Mercer
16-seeds: Robert Morris, Niagara, Northeastern, NC Central, Southern, Charleston Southern
NIT Tourney Field:
1-seeds: Baylor, Charlotte, Maryland, Louisiana Tech
2-seeds: Virginia, St. John’s, Arizona State, Indiana State
3-seeds: Alabama, Southern Miss, Brigham Young, Stanford
4-seeds: Akron, Arkansas, Iowa, Air Force
5-seeds: Bucknell, Tennessee, UMass, Stephen F. Austin
6-seeds: Detroit, Ohio, Northern Iowa, Wyoming
7-seeds: Washington, Texas A & M, Richmond, Xavier
8-seeds: St. Joe’s, Providence, Florida State, New Mexico State
Ranking of Other Postseason Contenders: Valpo, LSU, South Dakota State, Harvard, Davidson, Rutgers, Denver