It’s Championship Week and the best league in the country,
the ACC, begins its conference tournament today in Brooklyn. The stakes are
high, but the bubble has greatly contracted. Only a couple of teams are in play
for the last few automatic bids and they can either play themselves in or out
this week.
In this latest edition of bracketology, here’s a look at the
NCAA Tournament field as if the season were to end today.
Caution: The predicted field/seeding is highly likely to
change from day to day or minute to minute.
*Automatic bids in italics.
1 SEEDS: Kansas; Villanova; North Carolina; Gonzaga.
2 SEEDS: Oregon; Baylor; UCLA; Louisville.
3 SEEDS: Kentucky; Duke; Florida State; Arizona.
4 SEEDS: Butler; Florida;
West Virginia; Purdue.
5 SEEDS: Virginia;
Cincinnati; Notre Dame; SMU.
6 SEEDS: Iowa
State; Wisconsin; Minnesota; Creighton.
7 SEEDS: Miami;
St. Mary’s; Dayton; Maryland.
8 SEEDS: Oklahoma
State; South Carolina; Virginia Tech;
Michigan.
9 SEEDS: Wichita State; Michigan State;
Northwestern; VCU.
10 SEEDS: Arkansas;
Marquette; Seton Hall; Wake Forest.
11 SEEDS: Xavier;
Vanderbilt; USC vs. Rhode Island; Syracuse vs. Providence.
12 SEEDS: Middle Tennessee State; North Carolina Wilmington;
Nevada; Texas Arlington.
13 SEEDS: Vermont; Akron; Princeton; East Tennessee
State.
14 SEEDS: Bucknell; Winthrop; CSU Bakersfield; Florida
Gulf Coast.
15 SEEDS: Northern Kentucky; Iona; Texas Southern;
Nebraska Omaha.
16 SEEDS: UC Irvine; Jacksonville State; Mount St.
Mary’s vs. NC Central; North Dakota
vs. New Orleans.
LAST FOUR IN: USC;
Syracuse; Providence; Rhode Island.
FIRST FOUR OUT: Illinois
State; California; Kansas State; Georgia.
NEXT FOUR OUT: Illinois;
Iowa; Houston; Indiana.
CONFERENCE BREAKDOWN:
ACC (10); Big East (7); Big Ten (7);
Big 12 (5); SEC (5); Pac 12 (4); Atlantic 10 (3); AAC (2); West Coast (2).
Note: Automatic bids are determined by the conference tournament
champion or the highest seeded team remaining in their conference tournament.
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