New Bracketology

Here’s a look at the NCAA Tournament field as if the season ended yesterday.

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; Baylor; Gonzaga; San Diego State.

2 SEEDS: Dayton; Creighton; Maryland; Seton Hall.

3 SEEDS: Villanova; Florida State; Duke; Louisville.

4 SEEDS: Penn State; Oregon; Kentucky; Michigan State.

5 SEEDS: Ohio State; Colorado; Butler; Auburn.


6 SEEDS: Wisconsin; Michigan; Iowa; West Virginia.

7 SEEDS: Arizona; Illinois; Marquette; BYU.

8 SEEDS: Florida; Texas Tech; Houston; LSU.

9 SEEDS: Rutgers; Saint Mary's; Providence; Indiana.

10 SEEDS: Xavier; NC State; Virginia; Wichita State.

11 SEEDS: Rhode Island; Arizona State; USC vs. Oklahoma; Alabama vs. Stanford.

12 SEEDS: East Tenn. State; Northern Iowa; Yale; Vermont.

13 SEEDS: Liberty; Stephen F. Austin; North Texas; Northern Colorado.

14 SEEDS: Belmont; UC Irvine; Hofstra; Colgate.

15 SEEDS: South Dakota State; New Mexico State; Wright State; Bowling Green.

16 SEEDS: Little Rock; Radford; NC A&T vs. Siena; Prairie View A&M vs. St. Francis PA.


LAST FOUR IN: Stanford; Oklahoma; Alabama; USC.

FIRST FOUR OUT: Purdue; Utah State; Mississippi State; Cincinnati.

NEXT FOUR OUT: Arkansas; UCLA; Richmond; Syracuse. 


Note: Automatic bids are determined by current conference standings or the highest NET ranking. 

Way Too Early Top Seeds

It’s still too early, of course, but there were a host of great match-ups and great games that added intrigue and shuffled the top seeds just a little bit. Add to that, the debut of the NCAA’s new NET rankings, and you might as well start decorating for bracketology season.

Here are my top 4 seed lines for the NCAA Tournament as of today:

1 SEEDS:

Gonzaga (6-0) Best win: vs. Duke, 89-87.

Duke (5-1) Best win: vs. Auburn, 78-72.

Kansas (5-0) Best win: vs. Michigan State, 92-87.

Michigan (6-0) Best win: at Villanova, 73-46.

2 SEEDS:

Virginia (6-0) Best win: vs. Wisconsin, 53-46.

Michigan State (5-1) Best win: vs. Texas, 78-68.

Auburn (5-1) Best win: vs. Arizona, 73-57.

Nevada (6-0) Best win: BYU, 86-70.

3 SEEDS:

Virginia Tech (5-0) Best win: vs. Purdue, 89-83.

Texas Tech (6-0) Best win: vs. Nebraska, 70-52.

Tennessee (4-1) Best win: vs. Louisville, 92-81.

Wisconsin (5-1) Best win: vs. Oklahoma, 78-58.

4 SEEDS:

Texas (5-1) Best win: vs. North Carolina, 92-89.

North Carolina (6-1) Best win: vs. UCLA, 94-78.

Ohio State (6-0) Best win: at Creighton, 69-60.

Florida State (5-1) Best win: Florida, 81-60.

NCAA Tournament Top 16 Seeds

In honor of the NCAA Basketball Selection Committee biting the meaningless college football selection sneak previews, here are my top 16 seeds as of today, February 11, 2017.

1 SEEDS: Villanova; Kansas; Baylor; Gonzaga.

2 SEEDS: Florida State; North Carolina; Butler; Virginia.

3 SEEDS: Louisville, Kentucky; Creighton; Duke.

4 SEEDS: West Virginia; Florida; Oregon; Arizona.

Of course, this will all change in about two hours.