Bracketology Monday: ASU, Memphis, Ole Miss In

-- Arizona St, Memphis, and Ole Miss return to the projected field. Each has been in at some point earlier in the season, but not for many weeks.

-- San Diego St remains just on the edge, despite being in that spot for a few weeks now. The problem with SDSU, despite the high RPI, is that they lack quality wins. The home win over New Mexico is great, the home win over #47 UNLV is mildly impressive, and then their 3rd best win is at home over mediocre Pac-10 team Arizona (87th). 3 Top 100 wins is not terribly impressive. Utah, also in the MWC, has 3 Top 100 teams, already mentioned Arizona has 4. Still, don't count them out by any means.

-- Seton Hall & South Florida both finished 9-9 in the Big East and are hopeful that the committee is willing to take 9 league teams. USF plays DePaul in round 1 of the BE Tournament (a win over the Demons wouldnt change anything), but a 2nd round win over Georgetown would certainly shake things up. Similarly, Seton Hall plays Providence (a dangerous team) and then potentially Notre Dame.

-- UCONN, another BE hopeful, will certainly need to beat St. John's and then Marquette in Round 2 to get back into contention.

-- Purdue retakes its #2 seed after relinquishing it the prior week, thanks to losses by K-State & Villanova. New Mexico also moves up to a #2 seed (for the first time this season), but anything short of an MWC tourney win and they'll fall back.

-- A lot of the Bubble teams have faltered late, but the problem is that there haven't been any hot teams to take their place. Besides URI, UCONN, and UAB who fell out of the field this week, Illinois, Florida, and Georgia Tech have all stumbled in recent weeks but are lucky that there's simply no one else around to take their spots.

What do you think about today's Bracketology?

What is it going to take to get Tennessee up to a #4? They're a #4 in most brackets already.

Vanderbilt, Wisconsin, Maryland, and Temple all have better resumes than Tennessee thats why. Yes the Vols did beat both Kansas and Kentucky but both were at home and they have nothing else that stands out to you. Their best road win is against Memphis which is only looking better as of late. They were 4-4 in away games in conference. They beat Mississippi State, South Carolina, Alabama, and LSU. They lost to Vanderbilt by 19, being one of their 2 losses to the Commodores this year. They lost to Florida which would have been a sweep if not for Scotty Hopson's late heroics for the Vols at home. They also lost to Kentucky, non competitive against Georgia and USC killed them by 22 when the Vols were at full strength. The SEC just isn't that strong of a conference once again this year and Tennessee doesn't have that much to show besides two home wins against Kansas and Kentucky.

If the committee takes into consideration the injury to Jon Leuer, which left Wisconsin without their best player for 9 conference games (Without Leuer they still crushed healthy Purdue and Michigan St. teams at home and barely lost to both on the road) and they still only finished 1 game behind the three-way tie for first, then Wisconsin deserves to be a 3 or 2 seed. Seriously, look at their non conference wins compared to the other Big Ten teams...they beat the best the ACC has to offer in Maryland and Duke. They are absolutely rolling now with Leuer back and healthy, after Ohio St., they should be the highest seeded Big Ten team.

How in the world is Texas A&M listed as a dropping sixth seed?

memphis and ole miss wouldn't even get consideration if they were midmajors. this is laughable, their resume's consist of nothing