Full Court Press Bracketology

2020 Projection - 3/8

Seed	Team1	Team2	Team3	Team4	Team5	Team6
1	Kansas	Gonzaga	Baylor	Dayton
2	San Diego St.	Florida St.	Villanova	Maryland
3	Duke	Creighton	Louisville	Seton Hall
4	Kentucky	Oregon	Michigan St.	Ohio St.
5	Penn St.	Auburn	Wisconsin	Butler
6	Iowa	Colorado	BYU	Michigan
7	West Virginia	Illinois	Virginia	Arizona
8	Houston	Marquette	LSU	Saint Mary's
9	Florida	Indiana	Arizona St.	Oklahoma
10	USC	Rutgers	Texas Tech	Stanford
11	Xavier	Utah St.	Providence	Wichita St.	Richmond	NC State
12	East Tennessee St.	Liberty	Yale	Stephen F. Austin
13	Vermont	Akron	North Texas	Belmont
14	New Mexico St.	Bradley	UC Irvine	Colgate
15	Wright St.	South Daktota St.	E. Washington	Ark. Little Rock
16	Siena	Winthrop	William & Mary	St. Francis (PA)	Prairie View A&M	NC A&T

How it's Done:

Note 1-4 seeds from the Bracket Preview.
Re-evaluation of 1-11 by Team Sheets.

Emphasis on Q1 wins and SOS.

List all current conference leaders and "select" them as the projected winners.

Conference tournaments take precedent.

Bubble tiebreaker determined by Q3/Q4 losses.
Referencing NET and KenPom, find the lowest ranked automatic bid and place at 68.
Re-align "like" teams to a seed line, if possible.

First Four Out:

Cincinnati, Texas, Memphis, Northern Iowa

Notes:

Only the Seed List will be (continuously) posted until Selection Sunday.
If you want to manually "preview" the bracket, do as follows:

Assign each section of the bracket by a Quadrant Number (1, 2, 3, 4)
Slot each 1 seed by the Seed List matching the QN
Slot the top 2 seed into QN 2
Slot each remaining 2 seed into 1-3-4 respectively

2020 Projection #5

Seed	Team1	Team2	Team3	Team4	Team5	Team6
1	Kansas	Baylor	Gonzaga	San Diego St.
2	Dayton	Florida St.	Seton Hall	Villanova
3	Maryland	Duke	Louisville	Creighton
4	Kentucky	Oregon	Auburn	Michigan St.
5	Ohio St.	Penn St.	Iowa	Butler
6	Colorado	BYU	Michigan	Wisconsin
7	West Virginia	Arizona	Illinois	Houston
8	Marquette	Virginia	LSU	Saint Mary's
9	Florida	Indiana	Arizona St.	Texas Tech
10	Oklahoma	Rutgers	USC	Stanford
11	Xavier	UCLA	Providence	Wichita St.	Utah St.	Richmond
12	East Tennessee St.	Liberty	Yale	Stephen F. Austin
13	Vermont	North Texas	Belmont	New Mexico St.
14	Bradley	UC Irvine	Wright St.	Colgate
15	Bowling Green	Hofstra	South Daktota St.	E. Washington
16	Ark. Little Rock	Siena	Winthrop	St. Francis (PA)	Prairie View A&M	NC A&T

How it's Done:

Note 1 seeds from the Bracket Preview.
Re-evaluation of 2-11 by Team Sheets.

Emphasis on Q1 wins and SOS.

Bubble consideration for teams with a NET ranking above 70.
List all current conference leaders and "select" them as the projected winners.

Conference tournaments take precedent.

Referencing NET and KenPom, find the lowest ranked automatic bid and place at 68.

First Four Out:

Cincinnati, NC State, Texas, Arkansas

Notes:

Only the Seed List will be (continuously) posted until Selection Sunday.
If you want to manually "preview" the bracket, do as follows:

Assign each section of the bracket by a Quadrant Number (1, 2, 3, 4)
Slot each 1 seed by the Seed List matching the QN
Slot the top 2 seed into QN 2
Slot each remaining 2 seed into 1-3-4 respectively

2020 Projection #4

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

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