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Bracketology: February 18th
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February 18th, 2009
by Shawn Siegel
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2009 Final Four
The Bracketology field is based on how the tourney looks "as of this moment." Arrows indicate the amount of seeds a team moved since the last update. (Just because a team won or lost doesn't necessarily mean they'll move substantially though.)
Why should you care what I have to say? Did you know, last year I was considered to have one of the Top 2 or 3 brackets (depending on the scoring rubric) amongst 53 national experts including Joe Lunardi, Gary Parrish and the like).
Movement:
Last update was February 16th. Arrows indicate movement by seed. Two arrows equals a change of two seeds, etc..
Belmont is the lone new conference leader. Pitt has the #1 RPI now (and moves up to the #1 seed here), but trails UCONN by a half game in the BE. The biggest gain over the last 2 days is probably by Texas A&M, a team not even listed. They are at least back in the bubble conversation. Purdue moves up to the top rated 5 seed, but doesn't jump to a 4 despite being MSU. Texas falls yet again, to the benefit of Davidson & Utah. Kentucky needs to beat Tennessee coming up.
ONE
TWO
THREE
FOUR
FIVE
SIX
LSU*
SEVEN
EIGHT
Utah*
NINE
Boston College
TEN
ELEVEN
San Diego St
TWELVE
THIRTEEN
VCU*
Northern Iowa*
Buffalo*
UALR*
FOURTEEN
North Dakota St*
American*
Weber St*
Vermont*
FIFTEEN
Belmont* (new today)
CS Northridge*
Cornell*
Texas A&M - CC*
SIXTEEN + ONE
Robert Morris*
Morehead St*
Morgan State*
Radford* / Alabama St*
* = Conference champion
Bold = Tournament Bid
League Winners (31)
- Winners are merely the first place team in the standings as of today. Ties are given to the higher RPI team.
America East - Vermont
A-10 - Xavier
ACC - North Carolina
Atlantic Sun - Belmont**
Big 12 - Oklahoma
Big East - UCONN
Big Sky - Weber St
Big South - Radford
Big Ten - Michigan State
Big West - CS Northridge
CAA - VCU
Conference USA - Memphis
Horizon - Butler
Ivy - Cornell
MAAC - Siena
MAC - Buffalo
MEAC - Morgan State
MVC - Northern Iowa
MWC - Utah
Northeast - Robert Morris
Ohio Valley - Morehead St
Pac-10 - Washington
Patriot - American
SEC - LSU
Southern - Davidson
Southland - Texas A&M-CC
SWAC - Alabama St
Summit - North Dakota St
Sun Belt - UALR
WAC - Utah St
WCC - Gonzaga
** = New conference leaders
Last In: Wisconsin, Kentucky, Miami, Cincinnati (last)
Last Out: Kansas St, Penn St, UAB, Saint Mary's
Further Four: Providence, USC, Temple, Creighton
Dropped Out Today (at-large): none
Comments
I think NDSU wins a
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 2009-02-18 19:57.
I think NDSU wins a game....GO BEN WOODSIDE
I think your last in and
Submitted by code2tc (not verified) on Thu, 2009-02-19 09:53.
I think your last in and last out might be mixed just a bit. Miami has a worse chance than Kansas State and Penn State. KSU knocked off both Texas and Missourri and Penn State held number 16 Illinios to 33 points. They are more of a chance to make the tournament.
Agreed
Submitted by Shawn Siegel on Thu, 2009-02-19 13:42.
These rankings were done before last night's results. No doubt next update (tomorrow morning), that Miami will get the axe and Penn State will get more love.
Why so much love for the
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 2009-02-19 13:57.
Why so much love for the Mountain West vs the Atlantic 10. If you compare the top 4 from both the A-10 is very comparable if not better yet only has 2 in with one on the bubble.
Team Rec RPI SOS 1-50 51-100 Big Win
Xavier 21-4 7 25 5-3 5-1 Mizzou
Utah 19-7 11 20 4-4 6-1 Gonzaga
Dayton 23-3 25 123 2-0 5-1 Marquette
BYU 20-5 31 62 2-3 5-2 Utah St
Temple 16-9 37 44 1-4 4-3 Tenn
SDSI 18-6 43 77 1-4 3-2 Utah
UNLV 19-7 57 92 4-3 3-2 Louisville
URI 19-8 61 114 1-5 3-2 Penn St
Good post. I think in the
Submitted by Shawn Siegel on Fri, 2009-02-20 02:29.
Good post. I think in the end it will even out and both league's will get 3. I have a feeling neither of Xavier/Dayton will win the league tourney. UNLV got the axe in the latest update today so it's 3-2 now, with Temple up to the 3rd team out.
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I'm already pencilling in an upset...
LSU, as a 6 seed to lose first round.
I also think VCU could beat any of those 4 seeds.