Monday, March 28, 2011

Final Rankings - My Tournament

So this is very delayed, but is hard to blog when you have a job that has much less down-time than you are used to. The final rankings are the RPI and SOS numbers from March 13th, and the final AP and ESPN polls from March 7th. I will use a seeded S-curve with the rankings to give you my bracket. The First Four 16: Texas-San Antonio vs. 16: Alabama State 16: Hampton vs. 16: Arkansas-Little Rock 12: Florida State vs. 12: Virginia Commonwealth 12: St. Mary's vs. 12: Colorado State East Regional 1: Kansas vs. 16: UTSA/ASU 2: Brigham Young vs. 15: Bucknell 3: Kentucky vs. 14: Akron 4: Syracuse vs. 13: Princeton 5: Wisconsin vs. 12: Richmond 6: UNLV vs. 11: UAB 7: Texas A&M vs. 10: George Mason 8: Michigan State vs. 9: Old Dominion West Regional 1: North Carolina vs. 16: Hampton/UALR 2: San Diego State vs. 15: Northern Colorado 3: Texas vs. 14: Wofford 4: Connecticut vs. 13: Oakland 5: West Virginia vs. 12: Gonzaga 6: Xavier vs. 11: Butler 7: Tennessee vs. 10: Michigan 8: Washington vs. 9: Memphis Southeast Regional 1: Ohio State vs. 16:UC-Santa Barbara 2: Duke vs. 15: Long Island 3: Pittsburgh vs. 14: Belmont 4: Louisville vs. 13: Indiana State 5: St. John's vs. 12: FSU/VCU 6: Arizona vs. 11: Georgia 7: Villanova vs. 10: Utah State 8: UCLA vs. 9: Temple Southwest Regional 1: Florida vs. 16: UNC-Ashville 2: Notre Dame vs. 15: Boston U. 3: Purdue vs. 14: Morehead State 4: Georgetown vs. 13: St. Peter's 5: Kansas State vs. 12: St. Mary's/CSU 6: Vanderbilt vs. 11: Boston College 7: Penn State vs. 10: Cincinnati 8: Missouri vs. 9: Illinois First 4 Out: Clemson, Marshall, Cleveland State, Harvard Next 4 Out: Alabama, Missouri State, UTEP, Wichita State

Monday, March 7, 2011

Next to Last Rankings

Here's how I determined the ranks this week...
The conference's auto-bid goes to the highest remaining seed in the conference tournament as of this morning (as I speak St. Peter's is beating Iona and VCU is challenging ODU). Bold print means the team is already in.

1: Kansas (Big 12)
2: Ohio State (Big 12)
3: North Carolina (ACC)
4: Pittsburgh (Big East)
5: Brigham Young (MWC)
6: Florida (SEC)
7: Notre Dame
8: Duke
9: Purdue
10: San Diego State
11: Georgetown
12: Kentucky
13: Texas
14: St. John's
15: Wisconsin
16: West Virginia
17: Louisville
18: Kansas State
19: Syracuse
20: Connecticut
21: Vanderbilt
22: Arizona (Pac 10)
23: Villanova
24: Xavier (A-10)
25: Tennessee
26: UNLV
27: Texas A&M
28: UCLA
29: Missouri
30: Illinois
31: Boston College
32: Michigan State
33: Georgia
34: Cincinnati
35: Old Dominion (Colonial)
36: UAB (C-USA)
37: Penn State
38: Colorado State
39: Utah State (WAC)
40: Memphis
41: George Mason
42: Temple
43: Butler
44: Washington
45: Michigan
46: Florida State
47: Marshall
48: St. Mary's (WCC)
49: VCU
50: Harvard (Ivy)
51: Indiana State (MVC)
52: Iona (MAAC)
53: Oakland (Summit)
54: UW-Milwaukee (Horizon)
55: Charleston (Southern)
56: Kent State (MAC)
57: Long Beach State (Big West)
58: Morehead State (OVC)
59: Belmont (A-Sun)
60: Bucknell (Patriot)
61: Long Island (NEC)
62: Northern Coloraho (Big Sky)
63: Boston U (Amer. East)
64: UNC-Ashville (Big South)
65: Mid Tenn State (Sun Belt)
66: McNeese State (Southland)
67: Texas Southern (SWAC)
68: Bethune-Cookman (MEAC)

First 4 Out: Cleveland State, Southern Miss, Clemson, Gonzaga
Next 4 Out: Missouri State, Alabama, Richmond, Princeton