March 10, 2014 Bracketology

With the final day of the regular season out of the way we had some movement in the bracket where we saw Nebraska join the projected field for the first time.  Also we saw a lot of action in conference tournaments with Mercer, Wichita St., and Coastal Carolina clinching the automatic bid.  Finally we saw favorites Davidson and Vermont lose adding two new teams into the field.  Yellow denotes teams that have secured the auto-bid from their conference and as always seeds appear in true seed order except in this case SMU/Xavier who had to be moved to the 12 line to fit into the bracket.

  1 Seeds-  Florida,  Arizona,  Wichita St.,  Villanova
  2 Seeds-  Kansas,  Wisconsin,  Michigan,  Creighton
  3 Seeds-  Syracuse,  Iowa St.,  Michigan St.,  San Diego St.
  4 Seeds-  Duke,  Louisville,  St. Louis,  Virginia
  5 Seeds-  Cincinnati,  Oklahoma,  Texas,  Massachusetts
  6 Seeds-  North Carolina,  Baylor,  Ohio St.,  Connecticut
  7 Seeds-  Oregon,  VCU,  New Mexico,  George Washington
  8 Seeds-  Oklahoma St.,  Iowa,  Kentucky,  UCLA
  9 Seeds-  Kansas St.,  St. Joseph's,  Colorado,  Memphis
10 Seeds-  Pittsburgh,  Arizona St.,  Dayton,  Stanford
11 Seeds-  California,  Nebraska,  Providence/Tennessee,  Gonzaga
12 Seeds-  Xavier/SMU,  Harvard,  Stephen F. Austin,  Toledo
13 Seeds-  Southern Mississippi,  North Dakota St.,  North Carolina Central,  Delaware
14 Seeds-  Iona,  Boston U,  Georgia St.,  Eastern Kentucky
15 Seeds-  UC Irvine,  Mercer,  Stony Brook,  Robert Morris
16 Seeds-  Wofford,  Utah Valley,  Weber St./Alabama St.,  Coastal Carolina/Wright St.

Last four byes:  Dayton,  Stanford,  California,  Nebraska
Last four in:  Providence,  Xavier,  SMU,  Tennessee
First four out:  Florida St.,  St. John's,  Arkansas,  Minnesota
Next four out: West Virginia,  Illinois,  Georgetown,  Missouri
Living on a prayer:  Marquette,  Utah,  BYU,  Indiana,  Maryland,  North Carolina St.,  LSU

I will post the entire bracket later on today.  It takes quite awhile to format it correctly with the blogger interface so I will probably post it sometime Monday afternoon.