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Monday, March 9, 2009

Sports - Tourney projections through 3/14 games

Here is my prediction. It's the DeHaven-Lunardi challenge. A point off for every seed off and 5 points off if you missed the team. We'll see how I stack up. Creighton is my last at-large team. I feel like the real bubble is St. Mary's, Creigthon, SD St., Maryland, and Penn St. I have the first two in and the last three out. Lunardi currently has St. Mary's out and Maryland in as the only difference. We'll see if he makes any last second switcheroos.

1's North Carolina, Connecticut, Pittsburgh, Louisville
2's Michigan St., Duke, Memphis, Oklahoma
3's Villanova, Wake Forest, Kansas, Missouri
4's Syracuse, Washington, Gonzaga, Florida St.
5's Illinois, Xavier, Purdue, UCLA
6's Arizona St., West Virginia, Tennessee, Clemson
7's LSU, Butler, Utah, Marquette
8's California, BYU, Oklahoma St., Ohio St.
9's Texas A&M, Texas, Sienna, USC,
10's Boston College, Michigan, Wisconsin, Utah St.
11's Dayton, Minnesota, St. Mary's, Miss. St.
12's Creighton, Temple, VCU, Cleveland St.
13's Akron, Western Kentucky, North Dakota St., Northern Iowa
14's American, Binghamton, Stephen F Austin, CS Northridge
15's E Tenn St., Radford, Cornell, Portland St.
16's Morgan St., Morehead St., Robert Morris, Play in game

Next in line (in order) San Diego St., Maryland, Penn St., Arizona, Auburn

The bubble is shrinking. If the team isn't listed here, it has no at large hopes. The committee has been accused of creating interesting pairings, ones with subplots that will draw attention. If they did so with WV, the obvious choice would be Michigan. Perhaps a 6-11 WV-UM matchup is in order? Starting with the 10 seeds, the field is on thin ice and could be mixed up a number of ways for seeding purposes.

2 comments:

  1. 7 in from the big 10. Is this conference really that strong. It'll be interesting how this low scoring,defense-oriented league competes in the tournament.

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  2. It is actually 8 from the Big 10. However, only 3 of the 8 are projected as the better seed with the other 5 being seeded 9-11. This means that 5 of the 8 still have not locked up a bid. I would imagine one or two of those teams will lose in the first round of the Big 10 tournament and miss the NCAA tourney. I expect no noise from the Big 10 deep into the tournament.

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