Tourney Field, March 14th

On this edition, I have added Geographic Locations. Although I tried my best to obey the committee's guidelines, I pretty much disregarded the guideline that states that teams that played earlier this year shouldn't be placed in the same mini-pod. The reason is because I don't have every teams schedule memorized, and it would be quite painstaking to look it up.

Projected Tournament Field, March 14th, 1:00 AM CT
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Dayton 1 Louisville 16 CS-N'ridge 8 Cal 9 . Okla St. Miami 4 Florida St 13 American 5 Arizona St. 12 St. Mary's Boise 3 Missouri 14 . Akron 6 Utah 11 Boston C. Minneapolis 7 Marquette 10 Creighton 2 Mich St. 15 Cornell

Kansas City 1 Memphis 16 Morehead St. 8 Texas 9 USC Philadelphia 4 Syracuse 13 ND St 5 Purdue 12 VCU Miami 3 Wake Forest 14 S.F. Austin 6 Xavier 11 Siena Philadelphia 7 Ohio State 10 Tex A&M 2 UCONN 15 Radford

Greensboro 1 UNC 16 Morgan St. 8 BYU 9 Minnesota Portland 4 Gonzaga 13 West. Ky 5 UCLA 12 Cleve. St Minneaplis 3 Villanova 14 ETSU 6 Clemson 11 Dayton Kansas City 7 Tennessee 10 Michigan 2 Oklahoma 15 Portland St

Dayton 1 Pittsburgh 16 ASU/Chat 8 Butler 9 S.D. State Boise 4 Kansas 13 N. Iowa 5 Illinois 12 Temple Portland 3 Washington 14 Binghamton 6 WVU 11 Utah St Greensboro 7 LSU 10 Wisconsin 2 Duke 15 Rob. Mor.

Notes: Due to the many seeding issues that arise when trying to place teams into actual geographic locations, I took the liberty of using the committee's "One Seed Rule". The following teams were moved, and their true seed is noted:

Creighton (11)
Utah State (10)
Temple (11)
Siena (12)




The ever-shrinking Bubble:

1. Penn St.
2. So. Car
3. Maryland
4. Arizona


All Done, and It Doesn't Look Good:

1. Florida
2. New Mexico
3. Providence
4. Davidson
5. UNLV


Bids by Conference - Big 10 (7), Big East (7), ACC (6), Big 12 (6), Pac 10 (5), MWC (3), Atlantic 10 (3), SEC (2), MVC (2), WCC (2), Horizon (2)

Moving Up - Ohio State, Utah, , USC, Florida St


Moving Down - Florida, So. Car, Dayton, Wisconsin

New Additions - Akron
Happy Trails - Buffalo

And for your consideration, an NIT bracket:

1 seeds - Penn State, South Carolina, Maryland, Arizona
2 seeds - Florida, Providence, Davidson, Auburn
3 seeds - New Mexico,Virginia Tech, Illinois St., Kansas St.
4 seeds - Mississippi St., Miami Fl, Baylor, Northwestern
5 seeds - Niagara, Kentucky, Tulsa, Notre Dame
6 seeds - UAB, Georgetown, Washington St., Nebrask
7 seeds - Cincinnati, Rhode Island, Nevada, Weber St.
8 seeds - Duquesne, UT-Martin, Bowling Green, Jacksonville

And why not, how about a CBI:

1 seeds - UWGB, Wyoming, UTEP, Northeastern
2 seeds - Houston, Charleston, Miami Oh, Boise St.
3 seeds - St. Joe's, Bradley, Old Dominion, Wright St.
4 seeds - UALR, Oakland, Hofstra, Portland


Due to Virginia's experience last year in the CBI, and the thought that major conference schools are unlikely to draw their dissappointed fanbase to the arena to make up for the entry cost of the tournament ($60,000), I have omitted the following teams:

Vanderbilt, Ole Miss, N.C. State