NCAA Bracket Prediction

Last Updated March 17, 2013

The Major conference tournaments are wrapping up and 27 teams have clinched their spots in the field of 68. Check out the Conference Tournament Tracker page to help keep track of the automatic bids.

Ole Miss's run to the SEC Championship game has propelled them into the field. La Salle's loss to Butler in the first round of the A-10 tournament drops them out, for now.

Duke dropped off the 1-seed line after losing to Maryland but is the #5 overall seed in the bracket. Gonzaga, Louisville and Kansas have 3 of the 4 #1 seeds locked up, with Indiana, Duke, New Mexico, Miam, and Florida in contention for the 4th and final top spot. I gave the edge to Indiana due to their lack of bad losses.

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Here is how my bracket looks:
West Region

1. Gonzaga vs 16. NC A&T/Liberty
8. Cincinnati vs 9. Iowa St
5. St Louis vs 12. California/Tennessee
4. Wisconsin vs 13. Akron
6. UCLA vs 11. Oklahoma
3. Ohio St vs 14. Iona
7. Creighton vs 10. Temple
2. Georgetown vs 15. Harvard

Midwest Region

1. Louisville vs 16. Southern/James Madison
8. Colorado St vs 9. Illinois
5. Arizona vs 12. Bucknell
4. Kansas St vs 13. New Mexico St
6. Butler vs 11. Villanova
3. Michigan vs 14. Northwestern St
7. San Diego St vs 10. Missouri
2. Duke vs 15. Pacific

South Region

1. Kansas vs 16. LIU-Brooklyn
8. North Carolina vs 9. Minnesota
5. VCU vs 12. Boise St/Kentucky
4. Syracuse vs 13. South Dakota St
6. Notre Dame vs 11. St Mary's
3. Florida vs 14. Montana
7. Oregon vs 10. Wichita St
2. New Mexico vs 15. Florida Gulf Coast

East Region

1. Indiana vs 16. Western Kentucky
8. Memphis vs 9. NC State
5. Marquette vs 12. Belmont
4. UNLVvs 13. Davidson
6. Oklahoma St vs 11. Colorado
3. Michigan St vs 14. Valparaiso
7. Pittsburgh vs 10. Ole Miss
2. Miami (FL) vs 15. Albany


The Bubble

Last Four In
- California
- Boise St
- Tennessee
- Kentucky

First Four Out
- La Salle
- Virginia
- UMass
- Alabama

Next Four Out
- Middle Tennessee
- Southern Miss
- Maryland
- Louisiana Tech

Lowest RPI in Field: Tennessee (RPI 59)
Highest RPI Left Out: Middle Tennessee (RPI 31)

1 comment:

DCWahooFan said...

Hello-

Thanks for these excellent brackets. However to include Villanova , Baylor and St. Johns and Kentucky over Virginia is a travesty. :) I hope you'll be updating this fine bracket on Friday when Virginia takes Duke down in Cville. I am shocked UVa isn't already in your bracket having shown we can go toe to toe at Miami, dispatched the Terps at College Park, took down the Pack and Heels at the JPJ, and paid back the Jackets by 28 this past Sunday, as well as dispatched the badgers at Kohl early on - pretty much without our point guard jontel evans. yes we have some sucky losses - but all due to said PG absence (and other players) and losses at George Mason and Delaware were Nov 9 and 13 respectively (closing in on 4 months ago) with ZERO POINT GUARDS of three we had coming into season (evans, teven jones, malcom brogdon). And yes - these are excuses - when this team that doesn't exist any more - lost to Delaware we then lost out on two high RPI games at the MSG in the preseason NIT and instead got two wins over lowly rated North Texas and Lamaar - yes our fault - but not intentional weak sister scheduling. :)

The loss to ODU on neutral site in December was a perfect storm of no Jontel Evans, Joe Harris with the flu, a super motivated in-state mid major, a red hot 3 baller, and horrible officiating. yes, excuses all.

Anyway we are not that team anymore. I wonder if you've watched us recently?

Since January - the losses at Clem, Wake and GT just cannot be looked at as terrible losses - see Wake over Miami, and Clem 1 possession from beating mia and ncsu. We scored 82 at the Deane Dome but were beaten by a red hot UNC, and came down to final 6 seconds tied at Miami last week. If you will go find that game and watch it - you'll see we are clearly an NCAA team. (without our disastrous rpi bombing Delaware/NIT debacle I'm confident our RPI would be in the 40's or 50's at worst. Do you follow Ken Pomeroy? We're only ranked 17 there - and 27 in the ESPN BPI power ratings.

anyway, thanks for your work. I look forward to the wahoos inclusion in your esteemed bracket at its next update.

DCWahooFan

February 27, 2013 at 8:57 AM

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