Bracket Update- 11/24

A Few Notes From Early Season Action
North Carolina is the clear national champ favorite and virtually unstoppable but they do have problems with defensive focus and injuries and if they run into an up-tempo team (like Kansas last year) then they could lose.

Duke has virtually the same team and style as last year meaning they will lose to any team in March that can rebound well especially offensively and has a halfway decent PG.

Louisville hasn't played that much so far but they are still an interesting team. Last year, they were a borderline NCAA team when Padgett and to lesser extent Palacios got injured and now both gone so inside game might be a weakness depending on how good Samuels is in Big East play.

Kentucky lost to a very fast VMI team but I still think they will be in the bracket come March. If they face an up-tempo team though, they could be in trouble since it looks like Patterson can be taken out of those types of game.

San Diego also stays in the bracket because they return almost everyone from a tournament team last year and they were very competitive at UNLV even though four rotation players were suspended.

1 seeds
UNC (ACC)
Notre Dame (Big East)
Texas (Big 12)
UConn

2 seeds
Louisville
Oklahoma
Purdue (Big Ten)
Duke

3 seeds
UCLA (Pac-10)
Memphis (C-USA)
Georgetown
Baylor

4 seeds
Tennessee (SEC)
Kansas
Pitt
Gonzaga (WCC)

5 seeds
Florida
Michigan St.
Xavier (A-10)
UNLV (Mt. West)

6 seeds
St. Mary’s
Wake Forest
Marquette
Creighton (MVC)

7 seeds
Villanova
Arizona St.
Wisconsin
Clemson

8 seeds
Miami
USC
BYU
Miss St.

9 seeds
West Virginia
Virginia Tech
Texas A&M
Syracuse

10 seeds
Ohio St.
Davidson (Southern)
UAB
Michigan

11 seeds
Washington St.
Maryland
LSU
Kentucky

12 seeds
San Diego
Nebraska
Nevada (WAC)
Siena (MAAC)

13 seeds
SFA (Southland)
Cleveland St. (Horizon)
Kent St. (MAC)
VCU (CAA)

14 seed
Pacific (Big West)
Cornell (Ivy)
North Dakota St. (Summit)
Idaho St. (Big Sky)

15 seeds
Belmont (A-Sun)
American (Patriot)
North Texas (Sun Belt)
Binghamton (Am East)

16 seeds
UT-Martin (OVC)
Radford (Big South)
Delaware St. (MEAC)
Mount St. Mary’s (NEC)*
Jackson St. (SWAC)*

*- play-in game

Big East- 9
ACC- 7
Big 12- 6
Big Ten- 5
SEC- 5
Pac-10- 4
WCC- 3
C-USA- 2
Mt. West- 2

In
Michigan
Washington St.
Maryland
LSU
Nebraska

Out
San Diego St.
Alabama
Vandy
Temple
Utah

Last Four In
LSU, Kentucky, San Diego, Nebraska

First Four Out
Cincy, Florida St., Missouri, San Diego St.

Also Considered
Dayton, Temple, Vandy, Alabama, Utah, South Carolina, OK St., Minnesota, Illinois, Penn St., Seton Hall, Texas Tech, NC State, Rutgers, Arizona, Southern Illinois, Stanford, Virginia, Mercer, Georgia Tech, Charleston, Providence, Illinois St., VMI, BC, St. John’s, Ole Miss, Northeastern, Washington, Oregon, Drake, UMass, Southern Miss