📄 2037 Dance Partners, Building a Better Bracket w/ EC Hood: Part 3 Mar 10th

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

As always, it’s been a fascinating week leading up to Selection Sunday in CBGM, with some possible twists yet to come.

The biggest surprise comes out of the Mountain West Conference, as Wyoming, a team well out of the field as an at-large, tops San Diego State to win the league title and automatic bid. This will hurt the hopes of teams like the Aztecs, Nevada and Utah State in that league, as well as bubble teams like South Carolina, Arkansas and La Salle, depending on what the AI committee ends up doing.

The top four seeds should hold, especially if Colorado wins the Pac-12. Should the Buffaloes falter, a team like Notre Dame or Minnesota could sneak onto the 1 line, but it still looks unlikely. I have VCU as a 2 seed for now, but a loss in the A-10 final to Davidson could see a fall to the 3 line. Texas or Oklahoma State loom as a potential 2 if either wins out in the Big 12.

Troy wins the Sun Belt, and Georgia Southern and Old Dominion are both in as at-large squads. What a year for that conference.

The difference between the 6 seeds and 8 seeds (and even some 9s) isn’t that big this year. Lots of great games are on the slate for the big dance and we can’t wait. Enjoy!

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. 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.
5. 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 10th