Championship Week Rankings Part 1

Because these will change quickly by next Monday, I will do another ranking Thursday. For right now, the teams in Bold are the top seed in the conference tournament (or highest remaining seed) and the teams in Bold Italics have locked their bid.

1: Kansas (Big 12)
2: Duke (ACC)
3: Syracuse (Big East)
4: West Virginia
5: Kansas State
6: Kentucky (SEC)
7: Pittsburgh
8: Villanova
9: Georgetown
10: Tennessee
11: Texas A&M
12: Baylor
13: Purdue (Big 10)
14: Wisconsin
15: Maryland
16: New Mexico (MWC)
17: Vanderbilt
18: California (Pac 10)
19: Michigan State
20: Louisville
21: Ohio State
22: Temple (A-10)
23: Xavier
24: Texas
25: Clemson
26: Butler (Horizon)
27: Oklahoma State
28: Wake Forest
29: Richmond
30: Florida State
31: Georgia Tech
32: Missouri
33: Brigham Young
34: Northern Iowa (MVC)
35: Gonzaga (WCC)
36: Utah State (WAC)
37: San Diego State
38: Dayton
39: Florida
40: Marquette
41: Notre Dame
42: Rhode Island
43: UTEP (C-USA)
44: Washington
45: Memphis
46: Old Dominion (Colonial)
47: UAB
48: Kent State (MAC)
49: Arizona State
50: Siena (MAAC)
51: Cornell (Ivy)
52: Oakland (Summit)
53: Weber State (Big Sky)
54: Wofford (SoCon)
55: Sam Houston State (Southland)
56: East Tennessee State (A-Sun)
57: UC-Santa Barbara (Big West)
58: Murray State (OVC)
59: Troy (Sun Belt)
60: Morgan State (MEAC)
61: Winthrop (Big South)
62: Stony Brook (Am. East)
63: Lehigh (Patriot)
64: Quinnipiac (NEC)
65: Jackson State (SWAC)

Just Missed It (Needs a big win or someone else's big loss): UNLV, Virginia Tech, Wichita State, St. Mary's.

Some interesting notes:
- The rankings had just one Pac-10 team (California) all season and now there are three (Washington and Arizona State). The weakness of the Pac-10 is still real, they just took awhile to get rolling in the conference season... plus going 1-11 in the Pac-10/Big 12 Hardwood Series really hurts.
- The only real upset in the early tournaments so far was #5 seed ETSU winning the Atlantic Sun... but when the #1, #3, and #4 lose in round one (and the #2 in round two) it's bound to happen. Of all the conferences, the leader of this one switched multiple times. I've primarily had Jacksonville in the rankings, and sometimes Belmont (and Lipscomb was actually the #1 seed), so was this a strong conference or a really weak one?
- St. Mary's is out. They'll stay out if they don't beat Gonzaga in the WCC Championship tonight. That will make them 0-for-7 against the Zags in the last 3 years.
- All the bubble teams are praying for Gonzaga, Utah State, UTEP, Kent State, and Butler (and no ridiculous upsets in other tournaments, either)... all five of those teams may not need to win their tournament to get in.