NCAA Brackets

[Clarkmeister]

My current projections:

Chicago Regional
1. Illinois
2. Oklahoma State
3. Syracuse
4. Louisville

Syracuse Regional
1. Boston College
2. Duke
3. Gonzaga
4. Washington

Albuquerque Regional
1. Wake Forest
2. Kentucky
3. Michigan State
4. Pittsburgh

Austin Regional
1. Kansas
2. North Carolina
3. Arizona
4. UConn

[nolanfan34]

The best part of these is that you have teams playing way far away from the closest region to them, just like the selection committee does it!

My biased gripe - the Huskies (UW) are overrated, and are going to lose in the first or 2nd round of the PAC-10 tournament. I think they are headed for a 5 seed, and a nice 12/5 first round upset.

[Clarkmeister]

My biggest problem was what to do with Pitt. I certainly could understand someone who said they should be a 3 seed.

[MEbenhoe]

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My current projections:

Syracuse Regional
1. Boston College
2. Duke
3. Gonzaga
4. Washington


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I really hope you're right on this one. That regional would mean about a 90% chance of Duke going to the Final 4.

[Clarkmeister]

The other problem is that teams from the same conference can't meet until the regional finals IIRC.

[Clarkmeister]

I could easily be wrong, but I think it's very likely that Illinois and the 3 ACC teams will all be in separate regionals. Given that, how many brackets really scare you? I'm guessing not many.

[Uston]

And with an estimated RPI of 51, I could understand someone who said they should be a six seed.

[Clarkmeister]

More to life than RPI.

17-4

1 really bad loss to Bucknell.
3 other losses, all not good, but none terrible to Georgetown, @St. Johns, @W. Virginia.

But...

Decent non-conference wins vs Memphis and So. Carolina
Swept Syracuse 2-0
Won @ UConn
Beat ND

8-3 in a very deep conference.

A lot will be determined for Pitt in the last few games:

@ Villanova
West Virginia
UConn
@ Boston College
@ Notre Dame

They certainly can book a 3 seed if they go 4-1 in that stretch. More likely is 3-2 and a 4 seed IMO.

[wonderwes]

You still have to predict the upsets. Who knows what there will be this year?

I run a $20 bracket pool on poolhost.com with my friends. I was thinking of making it available also to 2+2'ers.

[Clarkmeister]

This is just a selection of top seeds, not a prediction of anything.

Personally, I think it's a very weak year overall in college hoops and there is a good chance that there will be even more upsets than usual.