Still assuming ISU at 8 is likely, but upon further inspection...
I've been keeping an updated list of my projections for the tournament field, and for the first time tonight, I did an informal bracketing for the first time — mostly discounting anything that happened in Friday's games.
When I got down into 7-8-9 seed range, it got interesting. If you look at the field purely by S-curve, it's one thing. But remember, bracketing (and by extension, seeding) involves a whole lot of other things: conference teams not placed within subregions (for 8-or-fewer-bid leagues); location of first two rounds; and such.
I tried to keep ISU as an 8, but there a cluster of teams in between 7 and 10 run into snags with bracketing procedures if you keep them where they "belong." It was far easier to place Iowa State at 7, the more I looked at it.
It isn't so much an isolated situation w/ Iowa State — some of it is whether teams in ACC, SEC, Big East and Big Ten have to swap between upper and lower. So many multiple teams in those conferences that have either 1 or 2 seed teams and 7-10's.
A few other things I noticed, but I'll stop there. For now. :smile: