NCAA MOCK TOURNEY FIELD
It was mentioned here that it was a waste of time and money, but since sports fans are accustomed to that, for informational purposes, below is the mock seeding to waste some more of your time.
As mentioned here previously, a group of 20 media members and conference officials, moderated by NCAA tourney director, Greg Shaheen, spent 10 hours on February 17 and another four on February 18 appraising all the tourney candidates.
Among the willing participants were CBS and SI.com’s Seth Davis, ESPN’s Joe Lunardi, Colonial Athletic Association deputy commissioner Ron Bertovich (a former Atlantic 10 commissioner), Sports Illustrated’s Andy Glockner, the Houston Chronicle’s Jeffrey Martin, Conference USA’s Chris Woolard, the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference’s Ken Taylor, CBS Sports’ Steve Scheer, the Big East Conference’s Tom Odjakjian, the Big Ten Network’s Mike Hall, the Dallas Morning News’ Kate Hairopoulos, Yahoo Sports’ Jason King and HoopsReport.com’s Ryan Feldman.
In this mock seeding, the First Four at-large teams that will play at the University of Dayton (OH) Arena would be Georgia, Butler, Florida State, and Gonzaga (#41-44). The last four seeds going to Dayton would be Texas Southern, Buffalo, Maine, and Northwestern State (#65-68).
Here’s the breakdown of the field, seeded 1 through 68 (predicted conference tourney winners in all CAPS):
1. Ohio State
2. TEXAS
3. Pittsburgh
4. Kansas
5. Duke
6. BYU
7. San Diego State
8. Georgetown
9. UConn
10. Notre Dame
11. PURDUE
12. Wisconsin
13. Florida
14. VILLANOVA
15. KENTUCKY
16. Vanderbilt
17. North Carolina
18. Xavier
19. St. John’s
20. Texas A&M
21. Louisville
22. Syracuse
23. Missouri
24. Arizona
25. West Virginia
26. Tennessee
27. Temple
28. George Mason
29. WASHINGTON
30. ucla
31. Illinois
32. Old Dominion
33. unlv
34. Memphis
35. Kansas State
36. VIRGINIA TECH
37. Cincinnati
38. St. Mary’s
39. Utah State
40. Minnesota
41. Georgia
42. Butler
43. Florida State
44. Gonzaga
45. RICHMOND
46. UAB
47. CLEVELAND STATE
48. Princeton (Ivy League regular season champs)
49. BELMONT
50. VCU
51. OAKLAND
52. NORTHERN IOWA
53. PORTLAND
54. BUCKNELL
55. FAIRFIELD
56. MONTANA
57. FLORIDA ATLANTIC
58. FURMAN
59. PACIFIC
60. NEW MEXICO STATE
61. MURRAY STATE
62. LIBERTY
63. HAMPTON
64. QUINNIPIAC
65. TEXAS SOUTHERN
66. BUFFALO
67. MAINE
68. NORTHWESTERN STATE
As mentioned above, the consensus conference tourney winners (30 of them - Ivy League has no tourney) are in CAPS. I am real curious how these consensus tourney winners will compare to the actual tourney winners. The Crier is lucky if he can predict one-half of the conference tourney winners, so how will these folks or quasi-experts do.
After Selection Sunday, the Peanut Gallery will reprint the above list and compare it to the actual seedings. Stay tuned!
MIKE IN DA
HMW
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NCAA MOCK TOURNEY FIELD
In Wednesday’s (3/2) Peanut Gallery, we talked of the 68-team field for the NCAA Tournament at the mock selection committee meeting of February 17-18 held in Indianapolis, IN.
As mentioned here previously, a group of 20 media members and conference officials, moderated by NCAA tourney director, Greg Shaheen, spent 10 hours on February 17 and another four on February 18 appraising all the tourney candidates.
Among the willing participants were CBS and SI.com’s Seth Davis, ESPN’s Joe Lunardi, Colonial Athletic Association deputy commissioner Ron Bertovich (a former Atlantic 10 commissioner), Sports Illustrated’s Andy Glockner, the Houston Chronicle’s Jeffrey Martin, Conference USA’s Chris Woolard, the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference’s Ken Taylor, CBS Sports’ Steve Scheer, the Big East Conference’s Tom Odjakjian, the Big Ten Network’s Mike Hall, the Dallas Morning News’ Kate Hairopoulos, Yahoo Sports’ Jason King and HoopsReport.com’s Ryan Feldman.
In this mock seeding, the First Four at-large teams that will play at the University of Dayton (OH) Arena would be Georgia, Butler, Florida State, and Gonzaga (#41-44). The last four seeds going to Dayton would be Texas Southern, Buffalo, Maine, and Northwestern State (#65-68).
Here’s the breakdown of the field, seeded 1 through 68 (predicted conference tourney winners in all CAPS):
1. Ohio State
2. TEXAS
3. Pittsburgh
4. Kansas
5. Duke
6. BYU
7. San Diego State
8. Georgetown
9. UConn
10. Notre Dame
11. PURDUE
12. Wisconsin
13. Florida
14. VILLANOVA
15. KENTUCKY
16. Vanderbilt
17. North Carolina
18. Xavier
19. St. John’s
20. Texas A&M
21. Louisville
22. Syracuse
23. Missouri
24. Arizona
25. West Virginia
26. Tennessee
27. Temple
28. George Mason
29. WASHINGTON
30. ucla
31. Illinois
32. Old Dominion
33. unlv
34. Memphis
35. Kansas State
36. VIRGINIA TECH
37. Cincinnati
38. St. Mary’s
39. Utah State
40. Minnesota
41. Georgia
42. Butler
43. Florida State
44. Gonzaga
45. RICHMOND
46. UAB
47. CLEVELAND STATE
48. Princeton (Ivy League regular season champs)
49. BELMONT
50. VCU
51. OAKLAND
52. NORTHERN IOWA
53. PORTLAND
54. BUCKNELL
55. FAIRFIELD
56. MONTANA
57. FLORIDA ATLANTIC
58. FURMAN
59. PACIFIC
60. NEW MEXICO STATE
61. MURRAY STATE
62. LIBERTY
63. HAMPTON
64. QUINNIPIAC
65. TEXAS SOUTHERN
66. BUFFALO
67. MAINE
68. NORTHWESTERN STATE
As mentioned above, the consensus conference tourney winners (30 of them - Ivy League has no tourney) are in CAPS. I am real curious how these consensus tourney winners will compare to the actual tourney winners. The Crier is lucky if he can predict one-half of the conference tourney winners, so how will these folks or quasi-experts do.
After Selection Sunday, the Peanut Gallery will reprint the above list and compare it to the actual seedings. Stay tuned!
MIKE IN DA
HMW
Email: houstonmediawatch@yahoo.com
Blog: http://www.houstonmediawatch.com/
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/lesbiancraig
Facebook Search: HMW Shelton
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