Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Brackettown Breakdown

As we approach Championship Week and we continue to look at the bracket it appropriate to put teams in three categories: The "Hamptons" (the high end teams, locked into the touranment), the "Town Square" teams (the middle of the bracket where everybody gathers) and separately the "One Bid Wonders" (leagues that have ZERO teams with at-large profiles). Currently, we have 78 teams on the board and we'll drop and add as teams get hot or cold.

The Breakdown

The Hamptons (16): Tennessee, Memphis, North Carolina, Texas, UCLA, Duke, Kansas, Xavier, Georgetown, Stanford, Wisconsin, Vanderbilt, Connecticut, Indiana, Louisville and Butler.

One Bid Wonders (15, current conference leader listed): Stephen F. Austin (Southland), Oral Roberts (Summit), Cornell (Ivy), Siena (Metro-Atlantic), Maryland-Baltimore County (Am. East), Belmont (Atlantic Sun), Boise State (WAC), American (Patriot), Austin Peay (Ohio Valley), Cal State-Northridge (Big West), Portland State (Big Sky), Winthrop (Big South), Robert Morris (Northeast), Morgan State (Mid-Eastern), Alabama State (SWAC).

Town Square Teams (47 teams for 34 spots, teams in parenthesis are current conference leaders): Michigan State, Notre Dame, Marquette, Purdue, Washington State, Drake (Missouri Valley), Kent State (Mid-American), St. Mary's (West Coast), Gonzaga, BYU (Mountain West), Arizona, Clemson, South Alabama (Sun Belt), Miami (FL), Pittsburgh, Oklahoma, UNLV, Baylor, West Virginia, Arkansas, Umass, Kansas State, Southern California, Mississippi State, Saint Joseph's, Texas A&M, Syracuse, Rhode Island, Maryland, Arizona State, Va. Commonwealth (Colonial), Davidson (Southern), Florida, UAB, Illinois State, Southern Illinois, New Mexico, Wake Forest, Virginia Tech, Houston, Kentucky, Villanova, Oregon, Creighton, California, Mississippi, George Mason.

2 comments:

Eric Allgood said...

Tony, Thoughts on the Huskers post season hopes? Or is this run too little too late?

Tony Chapman said...

They absolutely need a win today against Oklahoma State to have any hopes of a NCAA bid. The NIT appears in hand at this moment if they can just beat Colorado and finish 7-9 in the Big 12.