Bracketology 2015...
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Rematches can't take place until the regional semi-finals anyway, so it's impossible. More about the seeds and locations than matchups. Just need to keep winning to get a 3 seed again.
I assume he mainly uses RPI, since his goal is to set a field as closely to how the committee would.
As for Purdue, that team is getting closer, but I wouldn't give an invite above, say, St. John's, which he has out.
Edit: Nor would I put Purdue before N.C. State, either.
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A detail I find interesting about the bracket updates — and I may be alone in this — is with the small-conference auto bids, when it's a school that doesn't commonly make the tournament (or hasn't recently done so), such as Sacramento State, Yale and Colgate.
Seeing teams like Colgate and High Point and VMI always remind me of seeing them when I flipped open a 20 oz of Mountain Dew.
And then they make me sad, because they refuse to bring that promo back.
This is not true any more. They avoid rematches in the First Four and in the Round of 64 if possible after that they have no problem with it. And those aren't even 100% rules, just what they try to avoid. They were getting burned by having to adjust teams seeds too much up or down to avoid rematches. Now they are trying to seed people more to where they are supposed to be and not worrying about rematches as much. http://www.ncaa.com/content/di-principles-and-procedures-selection
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Palm's latest
ISU in Omaha, couldn't meet Kentucky until Final Four. And, like Lunardi's latest, has potential rematch with Arkansas in second round.
Finally, someone seeded KU above Gonzaga. (And Duke.)
ISU in Omaha, couldn't meet Kentucky until Final Four. And, like Lunardi's latest, has potential rematch with Arkansas in second round.
Finally, someone seeded KU above Gonzaga. (And Duke.)
http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/bracketology
Palm's new bracket from tonight. ISU is still a 3 seed in Omaha. The glaring thing I noticed is the last 2 seed, which he has as Maryland. That's a pretty weak 2 seed considering they've lost their last 2 road games by a combined 43 points. If ISU can just get 2-3 more road wins and defend Hilton, they can get that last 2 seed. Iowa winning tomorrow would probably help ISU too
Palm's new bracket from tonight. ISU is still a 3 seed in Omaha. The glaring thing I noticed is the last 2 seed, which he has as Maryland. That's a pretty weak 2 seed considering they've lost their last 2 road games by a combined 43 points. If ISU can just get 2-3 more road wins and defend Hilton, they can get that last 2 seed. Iowa winning tomorrow would probably help ISU too
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Maryland climbing to a 2 probably happened because he dropped Arizona to a 3. Not sure I would do that just yet.
If tournament started next week, and Iowa State was in that region, with those teams and seedings ... that's extremely favorable.
Yea, Arizona and Louisville losing is why Maryland jumped to a 2. It just goes to show that after the top 7 teams that the 8th spot is wide open. Those top 7 teams would have to really screw up to not get a 1 or 2 seeds (UK, Virginia, Gonzaga, Duke, Wisconsin, Kansas, and Villanova).
Lunardi has:
Kansas - 2 seed
Iowa State - 3 (highest 3 seed)
Oklahoma - 4
Baylor - 4
UNI - 5
West Virginia - 6
Oklahoma State - 8
Texas - 8
Iowa - 9
Still seven teams in from the Big 12.
If ISU goes 2-0 this week @ OU and vs. WVU, we are definitely in the conversation for a 2 seed.
Kansas - 2 seed
Iowa State - 3 (highest 3 seed)
Oklahoma - 4
Baylor - 4
UNI - 5
West Virginia - 6
Oklahoma State - 8
Texas - 8
Iowa - 9
Still seven teams in from the Big 12.
If ISU goes 2-0 this week @ OU and vs. WVU, we are definitely in the conversation for a 2 seed.
Still a lot of work left to do after this week though. But 2-0 this week puts ISU in a good spot.
Yep, that 8/9 spot is not very attractive this year.
However i doubt that they would put the big 12 champ in UK's bracket
