Tournament Bracketology: Week Three
December 1st, 2009
by Shawn Siegel
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The weekly Bracketology field is based on how the tourney looks "as of this moment." My weekly Bracketology updates are usually released later on Mondays. In late February into March, I release Bracketology updates daily as the season approaches crunch time.
Why should you care what I have to say? Did you know in 2007 & 2008, I was considered to have one of the Top 2 or 3 brackets amongst 53 national experts including Joe Lunardi, Gary Parrish and the like. (Admittedly my 2009 final bracket was rather weak.. not sure what happened. Can't win 'em all.)
Movement:
This is the second update of the season (missed last week due to the holidays).. hence a ton of changes. Arrows indicate movement by seed. Green indicates new to the field this week. Too many changes to run through them all this week..
ONE
Duke**
Texas**
TWO
THREE
FOUR
FIVE
SIX
SEVEN
Marquette
Portland**
Florida State
UNLV**
EIGHT
NINE
Miami
Georgia Tech
TEN
Notre Dame
ELEVEN
Siena**
Temple**
TWELVE
William & Mary**
Tulane**
Missouri State**
Loyola (Ill)**
THIRTEEN
San Jose St**
Cornell**
Western Kentucky**
Eastern Michigan**
FOURTEEN
Western Carolina**
Long Beach St**
Montana**
Belmont**
FIFTEEN
Sam Houston St**
IUPUI**
VMI**
Eastern Kentucky**
SIXTEEN + ONE
Boston University**
Army**
Morgan St**
LIU** / Texas Southern**
** = Automatic Bid
Bold = Locked Up Tournament Bid (only relevant in March)
League Leaders/Winners (31)
- Leaders throughout the season are merely the first place team in the standings as of the update, and not projected winners. Up until conference play begins, 1st place is given to the highest RPI team. New teams this week in green.
America East - Boston U.
A-10 - Temple
ACC - Duke
Atlantic Sun - Belmont
Big 12 - Texas
Big East - West Virginia
Big Sky - Montana
Big South - VMI
Big Ten - Wisconsin
Big West - Long Beach St
CAA - William & Mary
Conference USA - Tulane
Horizon - Loyola (Ill)
Ivy - Cornell
MAAC - Siena
MAC - Eastern Michigan
MEAC - Morgan St
MVC - Missouri St
MWC - UNLV
Northeast - LIU
Ohio Valley - Eastern Kentucky
Pac-10 - Washington
Patriot - Army
SEC - Vanderbilt
Southern - Western Carolina
Southland - Sam Houston State
SWAC - Texas Southern
Summit - IUPUI
Sun Belt - Western Kentucky
WAC - San Jose St
WCC - Portland
*** = Locked Up Automatic Bid
Last In:
Michigan, Notre Dame, Seton Hall, Maryland
Last Out: Northwestern, Pittsburgh, St. John's, South Carolina
Further Four: Richmond, Illinois, Tulsa, New Mexico
Dropped Out In Latest Update (at-large): Arizona State, Illinois, Mississippi State, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tulsa, UCLA, Wake Forest, Xavier
Comments
until conference play
Submitted by Shawn Siegel on Tue, 2009-12-01 18:57.
until conference play starts,i post the rpi leader from each conference as the projected champ. this makes it slightly more "objective" and takes my predictions of who will or wont be good out of it.
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San Jose State?
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 2009-12-01 19:30.
Really? Do you think San Jose can get passed teams like Utah State and even Lousiania Tech?
read the above post and the
Submitted by Shawn Siegel on Tue, 2009-12-01 19:48.
read the above post and the header of the conference champs section..
San Jose State winning the WAC?
Submitted by Travis Mason-Bushman (not verified) on Wed, 2009-12-02 18:08.
Seriously?
They've shown sparks and they're definitely going to be better, but atop the conference? I don't see it happening. It's going to be Utah State, Nevada and Idaho battling for the autobid.
Whoops, and I'm a moron
Submitted by Travis Mason-Bushman (not verified) on Wed, 2009-12-02 18:10.
But I don't think SJSU was ever atop the standings, and definitely not on Dec. 1. Louisiana Tech had the WAC's best record (5-1) as of that date, with Idaho at 4-1 in second place.
before losing to smc the
Submitted by Shawn Siegel on Wed, 2009-12-02 18:56.
before losing to smc the other night, they were slightly ahead of nevada. even though they only had 1 d1 win, because pacific was 50th in rpi at the time sjsu beat them and they played at #13 washington, they're SOS was one of the top 2-3 in the country. just a statistical oddity
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what happened to kansas ??
i see you changed the big 12 pick to texas , i still think jayhawks run the table in the big 12 this year