We here at Sparty and Friends love to get things wrong. Joe Lunardi is the resident Bracketologist at ESPN, and his claim to fame is that he gets them all right (on selection Sunday…).Well I don’t have the time to seed them and put them in brackets with the playing locations of the teams to be named, but I can give ya who is in and who is out.
The first part is fairly easy…
Your One School Conference Bids (23) :
America East – Binghampton
Atlantic Sun – Belmont
Big Sky – Weber State
Big South- Radford
Big West – Long Beach State
Colonial – VCU
Conference USA – Memphis
Horizon- Butler
Ivy -Cornell
MAAC- Siena
MAC – Buffalo
MEAC – The POWERFUL Morgan State
Missouri Valley – Creighton
Northeast – Robert Morris
Ohio Valley – Tennessee-Martin
Patriot – American
Southern – Davidson
Southland – Stephen F. Austin
Southwestern – Alabama State
Summit – North Dakota State
Sun Belt – Western Kentucky
WCC- Gonzaga
WAC – Utah State
Here is where it gets tricky, there are a lot of good teams with good wins out there. And there is always some 13 loss team the selection committee throws in so people can bitch about it, but here’s how I see it finishing…
Your Multiple Bid Leagues (in order of finish):
A-10 (2) – Xavier, Dayton
ACC (7) – UNC, Clemson, Wake Forest, Duke, FSU, Virginia Tech, Boston College
Big East (8) – UConn, Pitt, Villanova, Louisville, Marquette, Syracuse, West Virginia, Cincinnati
Big 10 (7) – Michigan State, Illinois, Purdue, Ohio State, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan
Big 12 (6) – Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, Texas, Texas A&M, Oklahoma State
Mountain West (3) – Utah, BYU, UNLV
Pac 10 (5) – UCLA, Washington, Arizona State, Arizona, Cal
SEC (4) -LSU, Tennessee, Florida, , South Carolina
And just missing the cut:
USC, Miami, Temple, Maryland, Penn State, Kentucky, UAB, George Mason
And your 1 seeds:
UConn, UNC, Oklahoma, and Pitt
Out This Week:
USC – 4 losses in 5 games could end up killing the Trojans when it comes to selection Sunday.
Miami – 3-7 in their last 10…enough said….
Bubble Burst:
Georgetown – 10 losses in the Big East …going 2-8 in theior last 10 with wins over Rutgers and South Florida. A promising start has ended badly for the Hoyas.
Popularity: 9% [?]
Memphis is going to end up with a 1 seed.
(Quote)
if it is Memphis, then who drops out?
(Quote)
Oklahoma.
(Quote)
At the rate Memphis is going, I’d hafta agree with a 1 seed…I think they’ll get Pitt’s 1 seed.
(Quote)
Problem with Duke, UNC, Pitt and UConn is that it will be tough or impossible to win out. Now if Pitt loses to UConn in the BE title game then maybe both get 1 seeds, if not, I see a team like Memphis sneaking in there if they can win out.
My goals are to see Cornell win a first round game – will probably be impossible unless they are at least a 13 or 14 seed but they most likely will be a 16 seed. Then again, to be the first 16 seed to beat a 1 seed would be awesome.
I don’t have a gut feeling on Syracuse this year. They have had great teams knocked out in the first round (lost as a 2 seed to Richmond once) or have a marginal Sweet 16 caliber team make it to the finals (96 John Wallace team). They are actually a very talented and well rounded team that can sink the 3’s or jam it inside. The problem is inconsistent play, stupid turnovers and sloppy passing. On a good day, they can beat anyone, on a bad day, they can lose to (gulp) Cleveland State.
(Quote)
Oh come on now PSU has gotta be in the tourny just so i can ruin my bracket
(Quote)
you know, that north dakota team might burst some brackets come tourney time,
speaking of which, yahoo has already set it up the league for it.
(Quote)