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Bracketology: January 26th
January 26th, 2009
by Shawn Siegel
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2009 Final Four
Bracketology: January 26th
This is the week marks the tipping point when the weekly Bracketology slowly begins to morph into a Daily Field of 65. Expect updates every 2-3 days for the next 2 weeks before the daily updates begin. The Bracketology field is based on how the tourney looks "as of this moment." Arrows indicate a team that moved up or down based on last week's performance. (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:
Arrows indicate movement by seed. Two arrows equals a change of two seeds, etc..
ONE
Duke*
TWO
THREE
FOUR
FIVE
SIX
SEVEN
EIGHT
Missouri (new)
NINE
Virginia Tech (new)
TEN
Utah State* 
UNLV* (new)
ELEVEN
TWELVE
Virginia Commonwealth* (new)
THIRTEEN
Northern Iowa*
South Carolina (new)
Western Kentucky*
North Dakota St*
FOURTEEN
Texas A&M - CC* (new)
Portland St*
Buffalo* (new)
Vermont* (new)
FIFTEEN
Long Beach St*
Cornell*
VMI*
American*
SIXTEEN + ONE
Austin Peay*
East Tennessee St*
Morgan State*
Robert Morris* / Alabama St* (new)
* = Conference champion
Bold = Tournament Bid
League Winners (31)
- Winners are merely the first place team as of today. Ties are given to the higher RPI team.
America East - Vermont**
A-10 - Xavier
ACC - Duke
Atlantic Sun - East Tennessee St
Big 12 - Oklahoma
Big East - Marquette
Big Sky - Portland State
Big South - VMI
Big Ten - Michigan State
Big West - Long Beach State
CAA - Virginia Commonwealth**
Conference USA - Memphis
Horizon - Butler
Ivy - Cornell
MAAC - Siena
MAC - Buffalo**
MEAC - Morgan State
MVC - Northern Iowa
MWC - UNLV**
Northeast - Robert Morris
Ohio Valley - Austin Peay
Pac-10 - Washington**
Patriot - American
SEC - Kentucky**
Southern - Davidson
Southland - Texas A&M-CC
SWAC - Alabama St
Summit - North Dakota St
Sun Belt - Western Kentucky
WAC - Utah St
WCC - Gonzaga
** = New RPI leaders this week
Last In: Oklahoma State, Notre Dame, USC, South Carolina (last)
Last Out: Illinois State, Wisconsin, Utah, Boston College
Comments
As I mentioned in the
Submitted by Shawn Siegel on Tue, 2009-01-27 11:30.
As I mentioned in the similar post in the Butler UGroup, Lunardi would justify this by saying he's trying to mimic the committee, and the committee is biased against mid-major leagues. but agreed 6th is completely ridiculous for Butler as besides the gaudy ranking, they're 8th in the RPI right now. Unfortunately that will go down as the season goes on and Butler plays Detroit, Valpo, etc again
My problem with Butler is
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 2009-01-27 13:38.
My problem with Butler is the same I have with Utah in football. They are good enough to beat a good team occasionally, but could they win consistently vs. top competetion? They have a good win at Xavier,ok wins at home against Northwestern(2-5 in Big Ten) by 4 and UAB by 4 (3-2 in Conf. USA). I am not sure how their RPI is 8. I think they would be lucky to be .500 against your 4-6 seeds.
Keep up the good work-I think your site is the best on the web!!!
but does anyone outside of
Submitted by Shawn Siegel on Tue, 2009-01-27 13:46.
but does anyone outside of the top 3-4 teams in the country win consistently against top competition? Sure, if Butler was in the Big East and played ND's schedule they'd have 3-4 losses easy now, but then again so would Oklahoma, Clemson, etc..
thanks for the kind words about the site!
Error Note!
Submitted by Shawn Siegel on Tue, 2009-01-27 15:53.
By mistake, Miami was omitted from the originally posted Bracketology on the 26th. They've been re-included in their rightful place, which knocks Illinois St into the first out pile. Apologies to any disgruntled Miami fans!
Temple
Submitted by Dan (not verified) on Wed, 2009-01-28 10:33.
If Temple wins their next 3 against URI, Richmond, and Xavier are they in?
interesting scenario.. hard
Submitted by Shawn Siegel on Wed, 2009-01-28 12:13.
interesting scenario.. hard to say as it would depend on what other's do. If I'm a Temple fan, I'd just hope the team doesnt worry about Xavier and focuses on the upcoming URI game. They haven't been able to win a road game against a quality team like URI yet
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Butler's record
Can sommeone with an ESPN profile comment on Bracketology? They have Butler as being 17-1 (8-0) instead of 18-1 (9-0)...as well as a six seed, which is comical.
Honestly, I have no idea why I even check what those so called experts have to say, it usually just irritates me.
You're right Joe Lunari, they play in the Horizon League. Judging by what you have as their record that's about the only thing you know about them, jackass!