Andy

What is Vermont's resume looking like? Is it different enough that they'd be in a different spot on our curve? Good God, they played two top 100 teams. Lost vs Cornell and beat Fairfield at home. Their second best win OOC was at Rutgers. They did sweep Boston U.

I just moved UTEP down several spots on my list of 28 and squeezed Minnesota out - but the Gophers can jump back into my list if they beat Purdue later.

I think VaTech just got squeezed out by Houston, personally.

I would put them between Sam Houston St and Ohio at the bottom there.

UTEP is in.

Houston is 18-15. Good wins: UTEP 2x, Memphis 2x. No good OOC wins, didn't play anyone in RPI top 60 OOC. Maybe they should be lower than above Oakland.

That looks fine to me. Their resume looks bad but C-USA is well better than any of the leagues at the bottom.

I think Kentucky pretty much has that spot on lockdown.

Well, I'm going to have to retool my list of 28 a bit if Houston gets it done here.

Yeah, I don't think Illinois would get bumped. I think Minnesota needs another win to be safe.

You mean like this? I assumed you meant switching the actual regions that both teams went to. -------------------------------------- Midwest Region - St. Louis, MO -------------------------------------- -- March 18/20 -- Oklahoma City, OK 1 Kansas 16 8 9 -- March 19/21 -- Spokane, WA 4 Butler 13 5 Maryland 12 -- March 19/21 -- Milwaukee, WI 2 Ohio State 15 7 10 -- March 18/20 -- San Jose, CA 3 New Mexico 14 6 Texas A&M 11 -------------------------------------- West Region - Salt Lake City, UT -------------------------------------- -- March 19/21 -- Milwaukee, WI 1 Kentucky 16 8 9 -- March 18/20 -- Providence, RI 4 Michigan State 13 5 Georgetown 12 -- March 18/20 -- New Orleans, LA 2 Purdue 15 7 10 -- March 18/20 -- Providence, RI 3 Villanova 14 6 Texas 11 -------------------------------------- South Region - Houston, TX -------------------------------------- -- March 19/21 -- Buffalo, NY 1 Syracuse 16 8 9 -- March 18/20 -- San Jose, CA 4 Tennessee 13 5 Temple 12 -- March 18/20 -- Oklahoma City, OK 2 Kansas State 15 7 10 -- March 19/21 -- Jacksonville, FL 3 Wisconsin 14 6 Clemson 11 -------------------------------------- East Region - Syracuse, NY -------------------------------------- -- March 19/21 -- Jacksonville, FL 1 Duke 16 8 9 -- March 19/21 -- Spokane, WA 4 Pittsburgh 13 5 Vanderbilt 12 -- March 19/21 -- Buffalo, NY 2 West Virginia 15 7 10 -- March 18/20 -- New Orleans, LA 3 Baylor 14 6 BYU 11

FWIW, I think Georgetown could easily swap spots with Pittsburgh if they win the Big East tournament.

My early recommendations for the 5/6 seeds: -- Georgetown can't go to San Jose or Pitt's Spokane pod due to Big East bracketing rules, so they go to Providence with MSU (both teams relatively close by). -- Temple goes to San Jose with Tennessee to balance out Syrcause's relatively weak bracket thus far. -- Maryland to Spokane opposite Butler since bracketing rules prohibit them from being 2 rounds away from Duke. -- That leaves Vandy to take the last spot opposite Pitt in Spokane. -- A&M would go to Jacksonville in Duke's bracket, but Baylor's already there. They go to San Jose with New Mexico. -- BYU would also go to Jacksonville, but they must be in a Thur/Sat pod. So they go to New Orleans opposite Wisconsin. -- Clemson wouldn't otherwise go to Jacksonville, but Texas would end up there otherwise, and Baylor can't play them in round 2. So Clemson goes there, which might be slightly unfair to Baylor, but not egregiously so. -- That leaves Texas opposite Villanova in Providence. That leaves the bracket below. Any problems? -------------------------------------- Midwest Region - St. Louis, MO -------------------------------------- -- March 18/20 -- Oklahoma City, OK 1 Kansas 16 8 9 -- March 19/21 -- Spokane, WA 4 Butler 13 5 Maryland 12 -- March 19/21 -- Milwaukee, WI 2 Ohio State 15 7 10 -- March 18/20 -- San Jose, CA 3 New Mexico 14 6 Texas A&M 11 -------------------------------------- West Region - Salt Lake City, UT -------------------------------------- -- March 19/21 -- Milwaukee, WI 1 Kentucky 16 8 9 -- March 18/20 -- Providence, RI 4 Michigan State 13 5 Georgetown 12 -- March 18/20 -- New Orleans, LA 2 Purdue 15 7 10 -- March 18/20 -- Providence, RI 3 Villanova 14 6 Texas 11 -------------------------------------- South Region - Houston, TX -------------------------------------- -- March 19/21 -- Buffalo, NY 1 Syracuse 16 8 9 -- March 18/20 -- San Jose, CA 4 Tennessee 13 5 Temple 12 -- March 18/20 -- Oklahoma City, OK 2 Kansas State 15 7 10 -- March 18/20 -- New Orleans, LA 3 Wisconsin 14 6 BYU 11 -------------------------------------- East Region - Syracuse, NY -------------------------------------- -- March 19/21 -- Jacksonville, FL 1 Duke 16 8 9 -- March 19/21 -- Spokane, WA 4 Pittsburgh 13 5 Vanderbilt 12 -- March 19/21 -- Buffalo, NY 2 West Virginia 15 7 10 -- March 19/21 -- Jacksonville, FL 3 Baylor 14 6 Clemson 11

Duke can basically sleepwalk to the ACC title and WVU didn't have to play a seed higher than 7 in the Big East tourney. Assuming both teams get it done, I'm guessing those tournaments won't play one iota into which one of them gets that last 1 seed.

Tory, that was a horrid decision. Horrid. Good effort, but unfortunately it's probably gonna put us in the 8/9 game.

Da'Sean Butler is going to drop 40. Everything he tosses up is going in.

Georgia Tech is probably in, loath as I am to admit it. I hate seeing below-.500 conference teams get in, but GT's resume is too good. SDSU will be in too if they manage to beat UNM.

I had Wisconsin significantly ahead of Baylor (though I may have underrated the Bears).

I don't know about Baylor, but if UNM wins the MWC I don't have a problem with them ahead of Wisconsin.

I don't know if I'd say everyone, as Jerry Palm still has them out and John Gasaway/Joe Sheehan had them well out prior to today (and even guys who had them in like Glockner and Lunardi had them as the last team in not including the result of today's game). But now with 4 top 25 wins (3 of them away from home), it'd be difficult to envision a scenario where they don't make it, unless there are a ton of upsets in the remaining conference tourneys (say, Northwestern, Miami, Georgia, San Diego State, UCLA, Nevada, Rhode Island and Southern Miss all winning their respective tourneys). Yeah, they're in now. I was leaving them out up til this point, but they've earned the benefit of the doubt. Thing is, they're perfectly capable of beating OSU tomorrow too if the Buckeyes play like they did today.

Can't say I have a quarrel with any of that, although I do think along with snood that the committee generally tries to put the 'weakest' 2 seed with the top 1.

For some reason Illinois was already in prior to this according to, well, everyone. But now I'd say you can't keep them out.

So Kansas State goes to Oklahoma City pod then right? That's the only one I think is a reasonable assumption off the top of my head.

Maybe Hinrich's goofy ass can drop some cheap shot on somebody the way he did to Rondo last year. You're the best troll in the world! Seriously, why are posts like these allowed to be made? It's textbook BS that we wouldn't take from a Cardinal fan in reference to the Cubs.

Ok, I'm sure Illinois is a fine team and all (I haven't watched much of them), but I've had the game on 5 minutes and 75 percent of Steve Lavin's comments are basically "Please, committee, for the love of God, put Illinois in".