January 11th Bracket

	East	Midwest	West	South
1	Syracuse	Kansas	Kentucky	Texas
2	Duke	West Virginia	Villanova	Purdue
3	Pitt	Temple	Kansas St	Georgetown
4	BYU	Connecticut	Northern Iowa	Rhode Island
5	Baylor	Wisconsin	Oklahoma St	New Mexico
6	St Marys	Clemson	Gonzaga	Tennessee
7	Dayton	Vanderbilt	UNLV	Wake Forest
8	Butler	William & Mary	Notre Dame	Louisville
9	Michigan St	UAB	Georgia Tech	Northwestern
10	Mississippi St	Missouri	Miami	Texas A&M
11	Texas Tech	California	Mississippi	Wichita St
12	Virginia Tech	North Carolina	Louisiana Tech	Alabama
13	Harvard	Western Carolina	WKU	Kent St
14	Murray State	Northern Colorado	Pacific	Siena
15	Oakland	ETSU	Morgan St	UTSA
16	Vermont	Arkansas-PB/Army	Radford	Mt St Marys
	In the Mix	In Today	Out Today
	Minnesota	Northwestern	Florida St
	Xavier	North Carolina	Minnesota
	Florida St	Vermont	Boston U
	Richmond
	Missouri St
	Cincinnati
	St Johns
	ODU

 

Notes on Teams of Interest

William & Mary – Loss to UNC-Wilmington drops Tribe to 8 seed.  Still have 2 top 50 RPI wins and 7-2 road record to fall back on.

UAB – SOS at 148.  Next test will be against Marshall on the 23rd.

Texas A&M – Road games against Kansas St and Texas this week will provide opportunity for seed advancement.

Virginia Tech – Lost ACC opener to UNC.  Games against Miami and Florida St this week will help to sort out ACC bubble teams.

Clemson – 3 of next 4 against UNC, GT, and Duke.  2 wins would solidify seeding.

Michigan St – Seeding being held down by 4-3 record in road and neutral court games.  Next road game is at Minnesota on the 23rd.

Vanderbilt – Road games this week against Alabama and South Carolina will help define SEC bubble.

Notre Dame – Wins against South Florida and West Virginia propel Notre Dame into bracket this week.  A road win against Cincinnati on Saturday would help tourney resume.

VCU – Losses to Northeastern and Drexel drop Rams out of bracket.  Will need to go nearly perfect from here to get at-large consideration.

Games to Watch this Week

Monday – Villanova/Louisville

Tuesday – Texas A&M/KSU, Maryland/Wake Forest, Kentucky/Florida

Wednesday – Minnesota/Michigan St, Miami/Virginia Tech, West Virginia/USF, Pitt/UConn, Cincinnati/St Johns, Wichita St/Indiana St, Charlotte/Xavier, Mississippi/Georgia, Wisconsin/Northwestern, North Carolina/Clemson, Vanderbilt/Alabama, San Diego St/UNLV

Thursday – Seton Hall/Gtown, ASU/Oregon, California/Washington St, Gonzaga/St Marys

Saturday – Dayton/Xavier, Louisville/Pitt, Syracuse/West Virginia, Mississippi/Tennessee, Texas Tech/Kansas, Georgia Tech/UNC, Notre Dame/Cincinnati, California/Washington, Georgia/Miss St, Illinois/Mich St, Oklahoma St/Baylor, Arizona/Oregon, Purdue/Northwestern, Texas A&M/Texas, Vanderbilt/South Carolina, Virginia Tech/Florida St, Wisconsin/Ohio St, Indiana St/Northern Iowa, Portland/St Marys

Sunday – Gtown/Villanova, Boston U/Vermont, Providence/Marquette, Wake Forest/Duke