March 4 Bracketology thoughts...

Maroon Eagle

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RPI rankings from realtimerpi.com....

1-seed
1 Duke
x7 Indiana
x4 Kansas
x2 New Mexico

Power conference teams and New Mexico, which leads the #1 RPI conference.

2-seed
x3 Miami
x6 Florida
8 Michigan State
x9 Gonzaga

I don't see the Zags as a 1-seed...

3-seed
x11 Georgetown
5 Louisville
12 Marquette
10 Michigan

Yeah, I've got three Big East teams as 3-seeds. I don't think that'll happen at the end but I'm thinking this at the moment...

4-seed
15 Syracuse
16 Minnesota
18 Kansas State
20 North Carolina

5-seed
x28 Saint Louis
x19 Memphis
13 Arizona
14 UNLV

6-seed
21 Ohio State
25 Oklahoma State
x23 Belmont
30 UCLA

7-seed
x36 Creighton
22 Oklahoma
24 North Carolina State
x26 Middle Tennessee

8-seed
31 Virginia Commonwealth
29 Butler
27 Colorado
x49 Oregon

9-seed
32 San Diego State
33 Missouri
34 Southern Miss
37 St. Mary's

10-seed
35 Illinois
38 Pittsburgh
42 Temple
41 Wisconsin

11-seed
45 La Salle
43 California
40 Wichita State
44 Boise State

12-seed
x46 Akron
x48 Louisiana Tech
47 Notre Dame
50 Cincinnati

13-seed
x52 Bucknell
x62 Valparaiso
-------------------- Play-in
51 Kentucky vs.
54 Massachusetts
53 Iowa State vs.
64 Virginia

I'm not a fan of the Wahoos taking the last spot but they are 10-6 in the ACC...

14-seed
x63 Stephen F. Austin
x69 Stony Brook
x74 South Dakota State
x76 Davidson

Seeing the quality of teams at the 14-seed spot is making me think that a chance of a 14-over-3 win is decent.

15-seed
x100 Montana
x114 Robert Morris
x115 Princeton
x118 Long Beach State

On the other hand, the 15-seed teams all have RPIs at 100 or worse.

16-seed
x122 Niagara
x133 Mercer
------------------- Play-in
x159 Northeastern vs.
x181 Texas Southern
x171 Norfolk State vs.
x188 Charleston Southern

Outside looking in... Villanova, Detroit, Alabama, Tennessee, Ole Miss, BYU, and Baylor...
 
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There's an NCAA Tournament this year?

With the pups struggling so much, I'd kinda forgotten about it. This must be what it's like to be an Auburn or Mississippi basketball fan.