Weekly Bracketology: Missouri, Notre Dame, Vandy Gain Bids
January 12th, 2010
by Shawn Siegel
Final Four 2010
The weekly Bracketology field is based on how the tourney looks "as of this moment." . In late February, I release Bracketology updates daily as the season approaches crunch time.
Why should you care what I have to say? 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.)
Notes:
Arrows indicate movement by seed. Green indicates new to the field this week. Conference champions are not my end of season predictions, but the current RPI leader at the time of the posting (this switches to conference record once all leagues have started.)
ONE
Kentucky**
Kansas**
TWO
Purdue**
Duke**
THREE
FOUR
Gonzaga**
FIVE
Temple**
SIX
SEVEN
EIGHT
UAB**
Butler**
NINE
St. Mary's
Vanderbilt
TEN
William & Mary**
M
issouri
ELEVEN
Notre Dame
Cornell**
TWELVE
Rhode Island
THIRTEEN
Siena**
Western Kentucky**
Nevada**
Murray State**
FOURTEEN
Western
Carolina**
Kent St**
Northern Colorado**
Oakland**
FIFTEEN
Vermont**
Radford**
UTSA**
Morgan St**
SIXTEEN + ONE
Army**
Long Beach St**
ETSU**
Quinnipiac** / UAPB**
** = Automatic Bid
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 - Vermont
A-10 - Temple
ACC -
DukeAtlantic Sun - ETSU
Big 12 - Kansas
Big East - West Virginia
Big Sky - Northern Colorado
Big South - Radford
Big Ten - Purdue
Big West - Long Beach St
CAA - William & Mary
Conference USA - UAB
Horizon - Butler
Ivy - Cornell
MAAC - Siena
MAC - Kent St
MEAC - Morgan St
MVC - Northern Iowa
MWC - New Mexico
Northeast - Quinnipiac
Ohio Valley - Murray St
Pac-10 - California
Patriot - Army
SEC - Kentucky
Southern - Western Carolina
Southland - UTSA
SWAC - UAPB
Summit - Oakland
Sun Belt - Western Kentucky
WAC - Nevada
WCC - Gonzaga
*** = Locked Up Automatic Bid
Last In:
Rhode Island, USC, Texas Tech, Florida
Last Out:
Cincinnati, Washington, Louisiana Tech, Wichita StFurther Four: Ohio St, Missouri St, Memphis, Northwestern
Dropped Out Of Field (at-large): Cincinnati, Ohio St, Washington
Comments
Who is the fraud?
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 2010-01-12 20:46.
Mizzou a fraud, really?!?!?? First of all, the richmond game was in a 200 seat gym in S. Padre Island. It was a neutral site game. Neutral, like the split crowd in St. louis where Mizzou ripped Illinois 81-68. So, MU is either 1-3 non-home games or 0-2 in "away" games." Not 0-3. Mizzou did blow it vs. ORU, losing by 1 in Tulsa. led by 15 late, but missed free throws adn, of course, the crowd prayed the titans to the win. of course, ORH also beat Stanford (leading the pac 10) and New Mexico (everyone's darling just a week ago) by double digits in that same arena. MU lost to Vandy, a possession from winning at end, but that's no easy task to win at mem Gym (just ask Fla.). most important, MU's losses were more than a month ago. They started 5-3. They've won 8 straight. This is a TEAM (vs. a collection of mcDonald All-Americans), give it at least two weeks to gel. Like they have. And like they did last year. meanwhile, at home Mizzou is darn good, most recently winning vs. KState. But, also look at the 39 pt win vs. Oregon (who is now among leaders of Pac10) and 28 pt slaughter of Georgia just 10 days ago. Winning on the raod in the Big 12 isn;t easy, but Mizzou did it more than most last year, and will likley snag some this year, too.
not sure why the size of the
Submitted by Shawn Siegel on Wed, 2010-01-13 07:46.
not sure why the size of the gym matters, still a loss.. but you're right, the 0-3 line is wrong on my part. ill change that later when i get back in.
Tigers win Big 12 road game, break Tech home streak
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 2010-01-14 00:31.
re: small crowd. it was a freaky atmosphere to start the year, that's all I'm saying (that gym made the old Chaminade gym look huge). In other words, the Tigers didn't fade because of a big hostile crowd...they lost to a good team in final minutes (that was predicted-NCAA bound and beat Florida a week later).
UPDATE: And the Tigers just beat Texas Tech in Lubbock, where the Red Raiders were 10-0 (including win over then ranked Washington). So, make that 1-2 away or 2-3 away or neutral. Next up: OU in Norman.
Mizzou a Fraud|? really? REALLY?
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 2010-01-14 23:35.
This isn't the Quin Snyder era anymore...let's move on and give credit where credit is due. Mike Anderson winning percentage is about .700 since he started and inherited terrible situation. Now he has them winning EVERY game at home (2nd in the nation in terms of home winning streaks) and has this "rebuilding" year off to a bang. Losing early on the road to teams that make the tournament and have knocked off other power conference opponents is not a worry. Now wins over Oregon, Illinois, Georgia, Kansas State and on the road at Texas Tech. This year will surpass expectations with another trip to the tournament with mostly a freshman and sophomore lineup and the #7 recruiting class coming in next year...Mizzou is a force again and these sites and the media will catch up to the facts soon enough. Too bad Mizzou does not have a different name, such as Villanova. Guess they will have to earn it without the appeal of some of those East Coast posers (i.e. GTown, Villanova, GTech....)
Go Mizzou!
USC
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 2010-01-12 12:35.
Hi Shawn. USC has banned itself from postseason play starting this year so they can't play in the PAC 10 tourney or the NCAA tourney. Also do you think that the PAC 10 only bid will be the Post season champ?
Big Ten
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 2010-01-12 16:25.
I see that you only have four big ten teams. I can see leaving Illinois out as they have had some bad non-conference losses, but I would think Ohio St. should be in at this point. Three of their five losses have been without Evan Turner (who is now back with the team). They have some decent wins over Cal on a neutral court and FSU -- and played Minnesota and Butler tough on the road and UNC close at MSG. I can see them eventually getting around a six-seven seed and the big ten getting six teams in.
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NOTES
-- For now, the #1 RPI team in each league is still listed as the conference champ until more leagues have played multiple games.
-- Ohio St & Washington drop out of the field for the first time all season. Pac-10 still has 2 bids as of now, though this is more due to perceived bias that the committee would give to the 2nd team.
-- Missouri's in the field due to respect in the polls, but they're a fraud. They're 0-3 away from home against Richmond, Vandy, and Oral Roberts.
-- Florida, the last team in, has an RPI of 83, the lowest of any in the field.
-- Look out for unlisted Xavier, who has a high RPI (22) and a favorable home schedule coming up.