Bracketology: UW and SDSU In, Memphis and ASU Out

Alright..

-- Washington & San Diego St are the new editions. I'm still not convinced the committee is terribly high on SDSU, but bubble teams keep losing by the bunch, so eventually they'll simply get in by default. Washington has won 10 of 12 and is now 49th in the RPI. If they win tonight, and knock off Stanford to move to the Pac-10 title game, they'll be looking at a bid.

-- Those two replace Memphis and Arizona St, both who blew games against rather tame opponents in the opening round of their respective tournaments. For Memphis, it was their 2nd lost to Houston, and 4th against a team below 125th in the RPI.. not good. Compared to those 4 losses, Memphis only has 2 Top 50 wins, and both of those are against a fading UAB side.

-- Illinois is obviously weak in RPI (76th) and aloss to Wisconsin would drop them to 18-14, which hardly looks tourney-worthy. The question though is what remaining bubble team is deserving? Rhode Island and Wichita St have the best RPIs (41 & 42), but URI struggled late, while Wichita st has only one quality win the entire season. The opening is certainly there for a URI or Dayton with a strong showing in the A10 tournament.

-- Off the bubble, the big winners of the day are Marquette & Notre Dame who each move up 2 seeds each. Both have soared 12+ spots in the RPI since the Big East tournament began (over 20 spots in the case of ND) are certainly locks.

-- Georgetown also moved up 2 seeds, thanks to beating Syracuse. More importantly, their RPI is now 9th.. which is too high to ignore. Perhaps also the committee will take into account Austin Freeman's struggles for a bit and discount one of their later losses.

-- Georgetown's surge knocks down Temple & BYU despite those teams not losing. Also near the top, Baylor becomes a 3 seed for the first time as they replace Pitt. Baylor has soared to 7th in the RPI, while Pitt lost in the Big East quarterfinals.

That's all for now. What do you think today?