Sunday, March 7, 2010

Bracketology 101-picking the field




Here is my field of 65, not seeded yet. Auto winners in Bold. Bubble subject to change as conference tournaments play out.

ESPN and ESPN 2 will air the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) and Metro Atlantic Association Conference (MAAC) title games tomorrow. If Old Dominion and Siena were to fall, it could throw even more chaos into an already chaotic bubble. If Saint Marys wins their Semi-final game tonight, they will play Gonzaga for the WCC Championship tomorrow. Should Saint Mary’s lose tonight, I will remove them off my list and onto the “first four out” list.

Auto-Bids

ACC Duke
American East Stony Brook
Atlantic 10 Temple
Atlantic Sun East Tenn St
Big 12 Kansas
Big East Syracuse
Big Sky Weber St
Big South Winthrop
Big Ten Ohio State
Big West UC Santa Barbara
Colonial Old Dominion
C-USA UTEP
Horizon Butler
Ivy Cornell
MAAC Siena
MAC Kent State
MEAC Morgan State
Mo Valley Northern Iowa
Mountain West New Mexico
NEC Quinnipac
Ohio Valley Murray State
Pac 10 California
Patriot Lehigh
SEC Kentucky
Southern Wofford
Southland Sam Houston St
Summit Oakland
Sun Belt North Texas
SWAC Jackson State
West Coast Gonzaga
WAC Utah State

At-large (21 locks, 3 teams close, 6 bubbles, 4 (last in)=34

LOCKS 21

Maryland
West Virginia
Villanova
Pittsburgh
Georgetown
Wisconsin
Ohio State
Michigan State
Kansas State
Baylor
Texas A&M
Missouri
Texas
Oklahoma State
Tennessee
Vanderbilt
Brigham Young
Temple
Richmond
Clemson
Wake Forest

TEAMS CLOSE 3

Marquette
Louisville
Florida State

BUBBLE 6

Georgia Tech
Virginia Tech
UNLV
Memphis
Notre Dame
Florida

LAST FOUR IN (IN ORDER) 4
St Marys
UAB
Washington
Mississippi

FIRST FOUR OUT (IN ORDER) 4
San Diego State
Arizona State
Mississippi State
Dayton

NEXT LIST OUT
Seton Hall
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Charlotte
Illinois

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