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.
With the major conference tournaments starting this week, I thought I’d run down who is in and out as of Sunday’s final regular season showdowns.
The first part is fairly easy…(Red=earned berth)
There are a few things I should qualify.
Championship games make it hard to project the field sometimes. There are a few things that could happen today. Mississippi State killed another Bubble team with the SEC title, sorry Zona.
Your One-School Conference Bids (21):
America East- Binghamton
Atlantic Sun – East Tennessee State
Big Sky – Portland State
Big South- Radford
Big West- Cal State Northridge
Colonial – VCU
Conference USA – Memphis
Ivy -Cornell
MAAC- Siena
MAC – Akron
MEAC – The POWERFUL Morgan State
Northeast – Robert Morris
Ohio Valley – Morehead State
Patriot – American
Southern – Chattanooga
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 -
Your Multiple Bid Leagues (in order of finish…in conference tourneys):
A-10 (3) – Temple, Xavier, Dayton
ACC (7) – Duke, FSU, UNC, Wake Forest, Clemson, Maryland, Boston College
Big East (7) – Louisville, Syracuse, West Virginia, Marquette, Pitt, UConn, Villanova, Providence
Big 10 (7) – Ohio State, Purdue, Michigan State, Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan
Big 12 (6) – Missouri, Oklahoma State, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Texas A&M
Horizon (2) - Cleveland State, Butler
Missouri Valley (2) - Northern Iowa, Creighton
Mountain West (2) – Utah, BYU,
Pac 10 (6) – USC, Arizona State, Washington, UCLA, Cal
SEC (2) -Mississippi State, Tennessee, LSU
And just missing the cut:
Arizona, Penn State, San Diego State, Auburn, UNLV, Florida, St. Mary’s, Davidson
And your 1-seeds:
UNC, Louisville, Memphis and Pitt
Bubble Burst:
Florida – Sloppy late play against Auburn likely puts them in the NIT
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I still think that both Creighton and St. Mary’s deserved in over Arizona. I’m not sure who I’d take if I had to pick between those two, but I sure wouldn’t pick Arizona.
I do know that I blame the SEC for sucking and allowing Mississippi State to win their tourney. Or the A-10 for Dayton and Xavier failing to even make the finals. guyinthecorner(Quote)
Penn State’s meh non-conference schedule hurt them.
Gophers need to play after 2pm CDT! HawkEye19(Quote)
vitale is getting pwnd by bilas and digger. jpmanahan(Quote)
there is really an effort to defend st. mary’s out there. jpmanahan(Quote)
At least Bobby Knight is defending Penn State Johnny(Quote)
Bob Knight is an asshat, but Penn St. was definitely robbed. How can you take Michigan and Minnesota over them? That’s not right. knightwhosaysni(Quote)
Is anyone else going to play the hardcourt challenge on ESPN. Sorta like the gridiron challenge was for the NFL playoffs. I already set my roster and I think it’s pretty killer. knightwhosaysni(Quote)
nit brackets are out… jpmanahan(Quote)
holy poop, Purdue got screwed. sparty(Quote)
kwsn i set up a sparty group last week for that
same group name and password as the bracket
http://games.espn.go.com/hardcourt/group?groupID=1152
Group: Sparty and Friends
Password: spartan sae(Quote)
I don’t think so Sparty. Purdue’s draw is very winnable. Michigan State’s draw is very easy. knightwhosaysni(Quote)
ok sae. I’m in. It’s just you vs me so far. knightwhosaysni(Quote)
By the way I have Michigan State over Purdue in the final four and then winning the national championship. knightwhosaysni(Quote)
kwsn- the draw isn’t bad for Purdue, but the seed should be an insult to them. I like our draw, and being in Dayton, a lot of fans will travel. However, I don’t like Louisville, I don’t think we can beat them. sparty(Quote)
Louisville won’t get out of the first weekend. knightwhosaysni(Quote)
Also 4 or 5 doesnt really matter, they just play eachother anyway. They weren’t going to get a 3 so a 5 is fine. Wisconsin as a 12 is strange when Michigan and Minnesota are 10s. knightwhosaysni(Quote)
The 6 game losing streak got Wisconsin a 12. It also allows for a 12 over 5 upset. They try to create those instead of them just happening. Okay, more tomorrow. sparty(Quote)
Oklahoma over Pitt on the other side of my bracket. I don’t care who knows what my picks are. knightwhosaysni(Quote)
Wow Penn State didn’t even get a number 1 in the NIT
Oh well at least they’re on a collusion course for Trey’s Gators Johnny(Quote)
half price shoes vs Free Shoe U sae(Quote)
Is there some sort of bracket challenge I can get into? JRod(Quote)
yeah, mikey set one up at espn
group is Sparty and Friends
password is spartan sae(Quote)
Awesome thanks! JRod(Quote)
Is there an NIT bracket challenge? Johnny(Quote)
Johnny…Tomorrow, be here at 9:30AM…we might be able to help you with that. GatorTrey(Quote)
That shouldn’t be a problem NASA is on spring break so there will hardly be anybody in the office this week Johnny(Quote)
i already edited my lineup. jpmanahan(Quote)
let’s just say WKU will be back in the sweet 16. jpmanahan(Quote)
and i really like the spartans against the cardinals. jpmanahan(Quote)