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Bracketology: February 20th
February 20th, 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:
Previous update was February 18th. Arrows indicate movement by seed. Two arrows equals a change of two seeds, etc..
Dayton, Creighton, and Tennessee-Martin are our new conference leaders. Creighton has won six in a row and is now a serious at-large contender. Davidson is our biggest loser today, as a home loss to Citadel puts them down at 56th in the RPI. A lot of the team's the moved up seeds, merely did because of other team's pitfalls instead of great wins. On the bubble, Miami and UNLV drop out of the field in place of Penn St and Kansas St.
ONE
TWO
THREE
FOUR
FIVE
SIX
LSU*
SEVEN
EIGHT
Utah*
NINE
TEN
ELEVEN
Creighton* (new today)
TWELVE
Penn St (new today)
THIRTEEN
Kansas St (new today)
VCU*
Western Kentucky* (new today)
Buffalo*
FOURTEEN
North Dakota St*
American*
Weber St*
Vermont*
FIFTEEN
Belmont*
CS Northridge*
Cornell*
Texas A&M - CC*
SIXTEEN + ONE
Robert Morris*
Tennessee-Martin* (new today)
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 - Dayton**
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 - Creighton**
MWC - Utah
Northeast - Robert Morris
Ohio Valley - Tennessee-Martin**
Pac-10 - Washington
Patriot - American
SEC - LSU
Southern - Davidson
Southland - Texas A&M-CC
SWAC - Alabama St
Summit - North Dakota St
Sun Belt - Western Kentucky**
WAC - Utah St
WCC - Gonzaga
** = New conference leaders
Last In: Wisconsin, Kentucky, Miami, Cincinnati (last)
Last Out: Michigan, UAB, Temple, Saint Mary's
Further Four: USC, Providence, UNLV, Miami
Dropped Out Today (at-large): Miami (for Penn St, Kansas St)
Comments
Michigan should be in at
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 2009-03-10 21:13.
Michigan should be in at this point. RPI, SoS, big wins and recent win over Minnesota.
Anonymous, this is from 3
Submitted by Shawn Siegel on Tue, 2009-03-10 21:34.
Anonymous, this is from 3 weeks ago.
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Clemson a 2 seed?
Only if wake is too. I realize Clemson has the higher RPI, but Wake has the head to head and Two more wins against RPI top 25 teams. One can argue about Clemsons impressive win over Duke, or Wakes questionable loss, but unless they are further apart in the rankings, Wake will get the nod over Clemson for a 2 seed. All this won't matter after Clemson comes to Winston-Salem to play the Deacs