Wednesday, February 28, 2007

NCAA Tourney and NIT Bracket Projections ( Feb 28th )







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Tourney

Last Five In: Oklahoma State, Texas Tech, Drexel, Illinois, Old Dominion

Last Five Out: Georgia Tech, West Virginia, Purdue, Florida State, Alabama

Big East ( 7): Pittsburgh, Marquette, Louisville, Georgetown, Notre Dame, Villanova, Syracuse

ACC ( 6 ): North Carolina, Virginia Tech, Virginia, Boston College, Duke, Maryland
Pac-10 ( 6 ): UCLA, Washington State, Arizona, Oregon, Stanford, Southern Cal
Big Ten ( 5 ): Wisconsin, Ohio State, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan State
Big 12 ( 5 ): Kansas, Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Oklahoma State
SEC ( 4 ): Florida, Vanderbilt, Kentucky, Tennessee
MVC ( 3 ): Southern Illinois, Creighton, Missouri State
MWC ( 3 ): Air Force, UNLV, BYU
CAA ( 3 ): Virginia Commonwealth, Old Dominion, Drexel
Horizon ( 2 ): Butler, Wright State


NIT

Last Five In: South Carolina, Santa Clara, Bucknell, St. Louis, North Carolina State

Last Five Out: Auburn, Kent State, Wichita State, Nebraska, Oklahoma


SEC ( 7 ): Alabama, Georgia, Arkansas, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, South Carolina, LSU
ACC ( 4 ): Georgia Tech, Florida State, Clemson, North Carolina State
Big East ( 3) : West Virginia, Providence, DePaul
Big Ten ( 3 ): Purdue, Michigan, Iowa
A-10 ( 2 ): UMass, St. Louis
Big 12 ( 2 ): Kansas State, Missouri
MVC ( 2 ): Bradley, Northern Iowa
Pac-Ten ( 2 ): Washington, Cal
WAC ( 2 ): Utah State, New Mexico State

It's pretty unbelievable that the SEC could have every team make the postseason in some form. Has a conference ever had that happen before?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

bucknell fan from before here - what makes you pick bucknell now for the NIT and not before?

also as someone who truely hates UCONN - was wondering why no postseason for them?

ebl said...

Even though their only good win was Holy Cross during their 12 game winning streak ( and 15 of 16 ), I couldn't resist putting the Patriot co-champ who split with Holy Cross in at this point.

Also, I thought it was worth it to truly reward a team that dominates their conference than a team ( UConn ) who struggles throughout and really doesn't have any better wins than Bucknell does. With all of that said, the Huskies would still probably be about my sixth team out.

ebl said...

Also, I know I have LSU, South Carolina and North Carolina State in who are all 4-10 in their conferences. That doesn't jive with my "truly reward a team that dominates their conference than a team ( UConn ) who struggles throughout", but it's tough to overlook combined wins over Texas A&M, at Southern Cal, Tennessee, at Mississippi State, Florida, North Carolina, and a sweep of Virginia Tech.

If Connecticut can get a marquee win ( at Georgetown perhaps ), they'll be in the NIT.