📄 2036 Dance Partners, Building a Better Bracket w/ EC Hood: Part 4 Mar 11th

Dance Partners, Building a Better Bracket. A bracketology presentation by EC Hood

The final Dance Partners is here, and with just two sims before Selection Sunday, the bracket is coming into focus. UNLV’s win over San Diego State in the Mountain West title game clinches a 1 seed for the Runnin’ Rebels. Connecticut likely needs to win out to hold on to their’s, likewise with Minnesota. Stanford or Colorado is lurking, should one win the Pac-12. Notre Dame toppling Louisville would certainly put them in the discussion for a 1 seed, though the Irish need to take down ACC No. 14 seed Miami (FL) in the semis first. Baylor is also having an outstanding season, especially by the NET rankings, where the Bears are No. 2 in the nation.

Georgia Southern hung on to win the Sun Belt, keeping alive the hopes of many bubble teams. Our last four in right now are South Carolina, DePaul, Missouri and Memphis. California is the first team out and could easily get back in with a win over Stanford in the Pac-12 semis. Evansville, Charleston and Buffalo are out in this bracket, but could all be in where the game is concerned.

The Rules:

1. No two teams from the same conference will play each other before the Elite 8 unless impossible to avoid.
2. No at-large teams will be seeded below the 12 line unless impossible to avoid. The play-in at-large teams will always be the last four at-large teams that made it.
3. Note: Conference champion bid predictions are determined by the team with the best in-conference record, and higher NET ranking if tied, at the time of the update if the league title game hasn’t been played yet.
4. I will tend to give an edge to power conference teams in seeding. This is a personal preference that has more to do with thinking the NET rankings in the game overpower smaller schools and mid majors than anything else.
5. This is not a prediction of what the actual bracket will end up being in the game. It is a prediction of what the bracket would be if this season occurred in real life right now and was picked by the NCAA committee.
6. I’m not quite the NCAA committee – I’m not going to examine every injury to determine if a result was legit or not and I probably won’t have time to drill down into every team sheet. In the end, this is just for fun.

IN GAME DATE: Mar 11th