Seed List:
Seed Team1 Team2 Team3 Team4 Team5 Team6 1 Baylor Kansas Gonzaga San Diego St. 2 Dayton Duke Florida St. Maryland 3 Louisville Seton Hall Kentucky Villanova 4 Auburn Oregon Creighton Penn St. 5 West Virginia Michigan St. Colorado Butler 6 Iowa Ohio St. Houston Arizona 7 BYU Marquette Michigan LSU 8 Texas Tech Illinois Wisconsin Saint Mary's 9 Florida Rutgers Wichita St. Arizona St. 10 Rhode Island Xavier Utah St. Virginia 11 USC Indiana Richmond Cincinnati Oklahoma Stanford 12 East Tennessee St. Northern Iowa Liberty Yale 13 Stephen F. Austin Vermont North Texas Belmont 14 UC Irvine Wright St. New Mexico St. Colgate 15 Bowling Green Hofstra South Daktota St. E. Washington 16 Ark. Little Rock Siena Radford St. Francis (PA) Prairie View A&M NC A&T
How it's Done:
Adjust 1-4 from the Bracket Preview.
Re-evaluation of 5-11 by Team Sheets.
Bubble consideration for teams with a NET ranking above 65.
List all current conference leaders and "select" them as the projected winners.
Referencing NET and KenPom, find the lowest ranked automatic bid and place at 68.
Work backwards to the last remaining 12 seed.
Balance the bracket on the "point system" assigned to 1-4.
Place remaining teams by top-left, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right, then snake.
Re-assign teams to other regions if a rematch would occur.
Adjust for Duke bias.
Opinion:
First Four Out: Arkansas, Providence, NC State, UCLA
True Seeds:
Seed List:
Seed Team1 Team2 Team3 Team4 Team5 Team6 1 Baylor Kansas Gonzaga San Diego St. 2 Dayton Duke Louisville Maryland 3 Florida St. Seton Hall Villanova Auburn 4 Kentucky West Virginia Penn St. Oregon 5 Butler Michigan St. Creighton Colorado 6 Iowa Arizona Ohio St. Houston 7 Marquette LSU BYU Michigan 8 Illinois Texas Tech Saint Mary's Wisconsin 9 Rutgers Rhode Island Florida Wichita St. 10 Xavier Arizona St. Purdue Utah St. 11 USC Richmond Indiana NC State Virginia Georgetown 12 East Tenn. St. Northern Iowa Stephen F. Austin Liberty 13 Yale Vermont Akron North Texas 14 UC Irvine Wright St. New Mexico St. Colgate 15 Winthrop Hofstra South Dakota St. Montana 16 Ark. Little Rock Austin Peay Robert Morris Saint Peter's Prairie View A&M Norfolk St.
How it's Done:
Adjust 1-4 from the Bracket Preview.
Re-evaluation of 5-12 by Team Sheets.
Bubble consideration for teams with a NET ranking above 65.
List all current conference leaders and "select" them as the projected winners.
Referencing NET and KenPom, find the lowest ranked automatic bid and place at 68.
Work backwards to the last remaining 12 seed.
Balance the bracket on the "point system" assigned to 1-4.
Assign teams to other regions to avoid possible rematches.
Adjust for Duke bias.
Opinion:
First Four Out: Oklahoma, Cincinnati, Stanford, Arkansas
Committee will decide bubble by Road Wins.
True Seeds: Seed List:
Seed Team1 Team2 Team3 Team4 Team5 Team6 1 Baylor Kansas Gonzaga San Diego St. 2 Duke Dayton Louisville Maryland 3 West Virginia Florida St. Seton Hall Auburn 4 Villanova Penn St. Oregon Butler 5 Michigan St. Kentucky Creighton Colorado 6 Arizona LSU Iowa Ohio St. 7 BYU Houston Texas Tech Marquette 8 Illinois Rutgers Michigan Saint Mary's 9 Wisconsin Rhode Island Arkansas Northern Iowa 10 Purdue Florida Wichita St. Oklahoma 11 Cincinnati USC Xavier Virginia Indiana Arizona St. 12 Utah St. East Tennessee St. Stephen F. Austin Yale 13 Akron Vermont North Texas Wright St. 14 Winthrop New Mexico St. Colgate UC Irvine 15 Hofstra South Dakota St. Montana Ark. Little Rock 16 Austin Peay North Florida Robert Morris Saint Peter's Prairie View A&M NC Central
How it's Done:
Adjust 1-4 from the Bracket Preview.
List all current conference leaders and "select" them as the projected winners.
Referencing NET and KenPom, find the lowest ranked automatic bid and place at 68.
Work backwards to the last remaining 12 seed.
Fill 5-12 by some algorithm (in my head) of AP, NET, KenPom, and Sagarin.
Sort 5-16 by Team Sheets.
Balance 8-9 to avoid possible rematches.
Adjust for Duke bias.
Opinion:
Keep local teams away from Dayton!
