📄 2038 Dance Partners, Building a Better Bracket w/ EC Hood: Part 3 Mar 10th
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Dance Partners, Building a Better Bracket. A bracketology presentation by EC Hood
The final bracketology is here! There are still a few sims left, but this is the last day the Bubble Watch is live, so we’re filling in our brackets early.
We like to keep track of spoilers, i.e. teams that are not at large teams that are still alive with a chance to burst some bubbles.
Villanova is the 7 seed in the Big East and still alive after a quarterfinal upset win over Georgetown. No. 7 West Virginia took out No. 2 Oklahoma State in the Big 12 tourney quarters. And Auburn shocked the world as a 9 seed, taking out No. 1 Missouri in the SEC quarters and No. 4 Arkansas in the semis. Auburn is in the dance if it can knock off Mississippi State in the championship game.
Temple can really help it’s at-large case with a win over SMU in the AAC semis. We have the Owls as one of the last four in right now. Charleston is also in the field despite losing in the CAA tournament. Xavier has squeezed in at 21-11, the final at-large berth.
The Rules:
- No two teams from the same conference will play each other before the Elite 8 unless impossible to avoid.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
