December 31st Bracket

	East	Southwest	Southeast	West
1	Duke	Kansas	Ohio St	Syracuse
2	Georgetown	Uconn	Pitt	San Diego St
3	Texas	Purdue	BYU	Notre Dame
4	Villanova	Kentucky	Kansas St	Missouri
5	Minnesota	St Johns	WVU	UCF
6	Tennessee	UNLV	Vanderbilt	Florida
7	Wisconsin	Temple	Illinois	Michigan St
8	Texas A&M	Washington	Louisville	BC
9	ODU	UNC	Miami	Arizona
10	Butler	St Marys	California	Virginia Tech
11	UCLA	Cleveland St	URI	Oklahoma St
12	Wichita St	Memphis/Northwestern	Wash St	Richmond/Georgia
13	Utah St	Vermont	Kent St	Davidson
14	Quinnipiac	Sam Houston	Iona	Long Beach St
15	Penn	Bucknell	Morehead St	Montana
16	Coastal Carolina/Jackson St	Morgan St/North Texas	Jacksonville	Oakland
	In The Mix	In Today	Out Today	By Conference
	Michigan	Georgia	Xavier	Big East – 9
	NC St	Northwestern	Dayton	Big Ten – 7
	Ole Miss	Davidson	Charleston	Big 12 – 6
	James Madison	Oakland	North Dakota St	ACC – 5
	Maryland	Jacksonville	ETSU	Pac Ten – 5
	Portland	Morgan St	Hampton	SEC – 4
	Dayton	Jackson St	Miss Valley St	A10 – 3
				MWC – 3
				CUSA – 2
				Horizon – 2

December 30th Bracket

	East	Southwest	Southeast	West
1	Duke	Kansas	Ohio St	Syracuse
2	Georgetown	Uconn	Pitt	San Diego St
3	Texas	Purdue	BYU	Notre Dame
4	Kentucky	Villanova	Kansas St	Missouri
5	Minnesota	UNLV	WVU	UCF
6	Illinois	Temple	Tennessee	Wisconsin
7	Vanderbilt	Florida	Michigan St	Texas A&M
8	Louisville	ODU	St Johns	BC
9	Washington	Miami	UNC	Arizona
10	Butler	California	URI	Virginia Tech
11	St Marys	Cleveland St	UCLA	Xavier
12	Memphis/Dayton	Wash St/Richmond	Wichita St	Oklahoma St
13	Vermont	Utah St	Kent St	Long Beach St
14	Iona	Quinnipiac	Sam Houston	Charleston
15	Penn	Morehead St	Bucknell	Montana
16	North Texas/Miss Valley St	Coastal Caroliona/Hampton	ETSU	North Dakota St

 

In Today		Out Today
UCLA		USC
Dayton		Ole Miss
Charleston		Davidson
Bucknell		American
North Dakota St		Oakland
Miss Valley St		Jackson St

 

In The Mix		By Conference
Georgia		Big East – 9
Ole Miss		Big 12 – 6
Colorado St		Big Ten – 6
NC St		ACC – 5
Michigan		Pac Ten – 5
James Madison		A10 – 5
Northwestern		SEC – 3
Penn St		MWC – 3
Maryland		CUSA – 2
		Horizon – 2

 

December 29th Bracket

	East	Southwest	Southeast	West
1	Duke	Kansas	Ohio St	Syracuse
2	Uconn	Pitt	Georgetown	San Diego St
3	Purdue	Kentucky	BYU	Missouri
4	Kansas St	Notre Dame	Texas	Minnesota
5	Villanova	Wisconsin	WVU	Texas A&M
6	Vanderbilt	UNLV	Temple	Tennessee
7	ODU	Illinois	Florida	Louisville
8	California	Michigan St	Miami	BC
9	Ole Miss	UNC	Arizona	UCF
10	Washington	Butler	Virginia Tech	USC
11	Cleveland St	Washington St	Oklahoma St	Xavier
12	Memphis/URI	St Johns/Richmond	Wichita St	St Marys
13	Vermont	Utah St	Kent St	Davidson
14	Morehead St	Iona	Penn	Sam Houston
15	Long Beach St	Quinnipiac	American	Montana
16	North Texas/Jackson St	Coastal Carolina/Hampton	ETSU	Oakland

 

In Today		Out Today
UNC		NC St
Washington		Nebraska
Xavier		UAB
St Marys		Portland
St Johns		Georgia
Penn		Princeton
Long Beach St		UCSB
Oakland		North Dakota St

 

In The Mix		By Conference
Georgia		Big East – 9
NC St		Big 12 – 6
Michigan		Big Ten – 6
Dayton		ACC – 5
James Madison		Pac Ten – 5
Portland		SEC – 4
Delaware		A10 – 4
Valparaiso		MWC – 3
Iowa St		CUSA – 2
Maryland		Horizon – 2
UMass

December 28th Bracket

	East	Southwest	Southeast	West
1	Duke	Kansas	Ohio St	Syracuse
2	Uconn	Pitt	Georgetown	San Diego St
3	Minnesota	Kentucky	BYU	Missouri
4	Kansas St	Notre Dame	Texas	Purdue
5	Villanova	UNLV	WVU	Texas A&M
6	Vanderbilt	Temple	Florida	Tennessee
7	Cleveland St	BC	Illinois	Louisville
8	Michigan St	Wisconsin	ODU	California
9	UCF	Butler	Miami	Ole Miss
10	Arizona	Washington St	USC	Virginia Tech
11	Oklahoma St	Memphis	NC St	Rhode Island
12	Kent St	Nebraska/Richmond	Georgia/UAB	Vermont
13	Wichita St	Portland	Sam Houston St	Iona
14	American	Quinnipiac	Princeton	Davidson
15	UCSB	Morehead St	North Dakota St	Montana
16	North Texas/Jackson St	Coastal Carolina/Hampton	ETSU	Utah St

 

In The Mix		By Conference
Colorado St		Big East – 8
Maryland		Big 12 – 7
James Madison		Big Ten – 6
Michigan		ACC – 5
Umass		SEC – 5
Delaware		Pac Ten – 4
UNC		CUSA – 3
Northern Iowa		MWC – 3
Iowa St		A10 – 3
St Johns		Horizon – 2
South Florida
Washington

December 27th Bracket

	East	Southwest	Southeast	West
1	Duke	Kansas	Ohio St	Uconn
2	Pitt	Georgetown	Syracuse	San Diego St
3	Kentucky	Minnesota	Missouri	Purdue
4	Texas	Notre Dame	BYU	Kansas St
5	Villanova	Florida	WVU	Tennessee
6	Illinois	UNLV	Michigan St	Texas A&M
7	Temple	Vanderbilt	BC	Cleveland St
8	ODU	Wisconsin	California	Virginia Tech
9	USC	Butler	Miami	UCF
10	Oklahoma St	Arizona	Washington St	Louisville
11	NC St	Memphis	Ole Miss	Rhode Island
12	Georgia/UAB	Kent St	Nebraska/Richmond	Vermont
13	Wichita St	Portland	Princeton	Sam Houston
14	American	Quinnipiac	Davidson	Iona
15	Morehead St	North Dakota St	Montana	UCSB
16	North Texas/Jackson St	Coastal Carolina/Hampton	ETSU	Utah St

 

In The Mix		By Conference
Colorado St		Big East – 8
James Madison		Big 12 – 7
Michigan		Big Ten – 6
UMass		ACC – 5
UNC		SEC – 5
Northern Iowa		Pac Ten – 4
Delaware		CUSA – 3
Washington		MWC – 3
Iowa St		A10 – 3
St Johns		Horizon – 2
South Florida

2011 Daily Bracket Notes

Here are the factors that go into calculating the Daily Bracket S-Curve formula:

• Strength of Schedule
• Winning Percentage
• Record against Top 50 RPI teams
• Record against teams ranked 51-100 in the RPI
• Road/Neutral record
• AP and Coaches Polls
• Conference wins (only for Big 6 schools)
• Wins against Top 25 RPI teams
• Losses against teams ranked 101 or worse in RPI

In addition, the following factors were removed from this year’s calculations:

• Conference RPI
• Record in Last 10 games

Here are the team restrictions for placement in this year’s tournament:

• BYU must play second/third round games in Denver, Tuscon, Tampa, or Washington DC
• BYU must be placed in West or SouthEast region
• Cleveland St can’t be placed in Cleveland
• Arizona can’t be placed in Tuscon
• South Florida can’t be placed in Tampa
• Georgetown can’t be placed in Washington DC
• Charlotte can’t be placed in Charlotte
• Seton Hall can’t be placed in East region