Well – it wasn’t meant to be. Iowa ruined my hopes for some type of Big 10 title, as they just played better basketball today. Purdue turned the ball over too many times and ended up playing catch-up most of the game. Congratulations to the Hawkeyes.
So at that point, I have my final bracketology. Because I was watching the game, I didn’t put teams into regions – I might go back and do that based on the bracketing rules. But with it being so close to before the bracket gets released, I didn’t want to get caught up with that task.
I believe that the top seeds will be Gonzaga, Arizona, Kansas and Baylor. As for the bubble, I think the bubble breakdown in
Final 4 At-Large before Play-ins: Texas A&M, Marquette, Seton Hall, Davidson
Final 4 At-Large Teams: Indiana, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, Miami FL
First 4 Out: SMU, Rutgers, Wake Forest and Dayton
Next 4 Out: Xavier, Florida, Wyoming, BYU
Here is the bracket broken up by the Lunatic’s S-curve – I am sure the committee probably will disagree with me. But so exciting – the Selection Show is in 6 minutes!!!!!!!!
| 1) Gonzaga (WCC) | 2) Arizona (Pac 12) | 3) Kansas (Big 12) | 4) Baylor (AL 1) |
| 5) Auburn (AL 2) | 6) Kentucky (AL 3) | 7) Villanova (Big East) | 8) Tennessee (SEC) |
| 9) Duke (AL 4) | 10) Purdue (AL 14) | 11) UCLA (AL 5) | 12) Texas Tech (AL 6) |
| 13) Wisconsin (AL 7) | 14) Arkansas (AL 8) | 15) Illinois (AL 9) | 16) Houston (American) |
| 17) St. Mary’s (AL 10) | 18) Providence (AL 11) | 19) Connecticut (AL 12) | 20 Iowa (Big 10) |
| 21) Texas (AL 13) | 22) Murray St (OVC) | 23) USC (AL 15) | 24) North Carolina (AL 16) |
| 25) Boise St (Mt West) | 26) Alabama (AL 17) | 27) Colorado St (AL 18) | 28) Ohio St (AL 19) |
| 29) LSU (AL 20) | 30) TCU (AL 21) | 31) Memphis (AL 22) | 32) Creighton (AL 23) |
| 33) Iowa St (AL 24) | 34) Michigan St (AL 25) | 35) Virginia Tech (ACC) | 36) Loyola IL (MVC) |
| 37) Michigan (AL 26) | 38) San Diego St (AL 27) | 39) San Francisco (AL 28) | 40) Texas A&M (AL 29) |
| 41) Marquette (AL 30) | 42) Seton Hall (AL 31) | 43) Davidson (AL 32) | 44) Indiana (AL 33) / Notre Dame (AL 34) |
| 45) Oklahoma (AL 35) / Miami FL (AL 36) | 46) UAB (Conf USA) | 47) Chattanooga (Southern) | 48) New Mexico St (WAC) |
| 49) Vermont (Am East) | 50) South Dakota St (Summit) | 51) Richmond (Atl 10) | 52) Akron (MAC) |
| 53) Colgate (Patriot) | 54) St Peter’s (MAAC) | 55) Montana St (Big Sky) | 56) Jacksonville St (Atl Sun) |
| 57) Longwood (Big South) | 58) Delaware (Colonial) | 59) Yale (Ivy) | 60) CSU Fullerton (Big West) |
| 61) Norfolk St (MEAC) | 62) Georgia St (Sun Belt) | 63) Wright St (Horizon) / Texas Southern (SWAC) | 64) Bryant (NEC) / Texas A&M – CC (Southland) |