As I have mentioned before, this is a lazy attempt to seed things without taking up much time or effort.  I tried to keep close to the poll rankings – the top seeds actually stay pretty close to it – which makes sense – if the 65 AP members and 32 coaches think Kansas is the top team, it is not a far stretch to think the 10 committee member will agree.  I then used some basic schedule rankings to rank the rest.  I will say, the lack of tournaments makes this hard.  For example, I suspect that if Florida State won the ACC tournament, and Baylor did not win the Big 12 tournament, the Seminoles would leap into the final #1 spot.  But that is a lot of ifs for something that didn’t happen…..

So, without further ado, the Lunatic’s preliminary bracket.  Top seed is listed in my ranking order, and then the remaining seeds are in that order (since Kansas is my Midwest region top seed, the Midwest region will always get listed first).  This will be the final one if I give up on finding a more analytical way to do this…..  I have all these pie in the sky goals that likely will give way to more important things.  I might also break some bracketing rules as I am doing this crazy quick…..

1 – Kansas (MW), Gonzaga (W), Dayton (E), Baylor (S)

2 – Michigan St (MW), San Diego St (W), Creighton (E), Florida St (S)

3 – Villanova (MW), Duke (W), Kentucky (E), Maryland (S)

4 – Louisville (MW), Oregon (W), Wisconsin (E), Seton Hall (S)

5 – Ohio St (MW), Auburn (W), West Virgina (E), Virginia (S)

6 – BYU (MW), Iowa (W), Illinois (E), Butler (S)

7 – Houston (MW), LSU (W), Penn State (E), Providence (S)

8 – St Mary’s (MW), Utah State (W), Arizona (E), Michigan (S)

9 – Marquette (MW), Oklahoma (W), Florida (E), UCLA (S)

10 – Cincinnati (MW), USC (W), Rutgers (E), Arizona St (S)

11 – Colorado (MW), Texas Tech vs Wichita St (W), Richmond (E), Mississippi St vs Northern Iowa (S)

12 – Stephen F Austin (MW), New Mexico State (W), Vermont (E), East Tennessee St (S)

13 – Akron (MW), Bradley (W), Yale (E), Liberty (S)

14 – Belmont (MW), North Texas (W), Hofstra (E), Winthrop (S)

15 – Eastern Washington (MW), UC-Irvine (W), Boston Univ (E), Ark-Little Rock (S)

16 – NC Central vs Robert Morris (MW), North Dakota St vs Prairie View (W), Siena (E), Northern Kentucky (S)

 

I am sure that I will probably keep tweaking this.  I feel like with some time (and my normal pouring through team sheets, I can do better.   But this at least has me covered in case the NCAA comes out with a bracket……..