Final Bracket Notes

At-large Accuracy:

• 34/34

Biggest Seed Mistakes:

• -2 – UNLV, Florida St, Vanderbilt, Florida, Marquette, Clemson, California
• +2 – San Diego St, Gonzaga, Temple, Washington, St Marys
• +3 – Northern Iowa
• +4 – UTEP

Overall Seed Accuracy:

• 30 exact
• 21 1 seed off
• 14 more than 2

Matchups called:

• Kansas/Lehigh
• Oklahoma St/Georgia Tech
• Pittsburgh/Oakland (although my seeding was 4/13)
• Wisconsin/Wofford
• West Virginia/Morgan St

General Observations:

• Looking back at the biggest seeding misses, my computer seeding projections overvalued most of the mid-major schools and under-valued some of the mediocre big-conference schools.  And the one big-conference school that I overvalued was from the Pac-10, which played like a mid-major this year.  I’ll spend the next few days reviewing my calculations to determine how best to stop overvaluing these teams.
• I’m happy to have gotten all 34 at-large teams correct.  I didn’t have much time today to review the bracket, and what little time I had I devoted to that last spot.  After concluding that Minnesota was in no matter what, and Virginia Tech was not going to make it, I spent some time reviewing the profiles of Mississippi State, Florida, and Illinois.  As is often the case with these decisions, it’s a matter of teams not making it because of some disqualifying characteristic rather than a team making it for positive reasons.  A I stated in the Final Bracket post, Mississippi State’s SOS and lack of top 25 RPI wins, and Illinois’ bad RPI and record were the disqualifying factors for those teams.
• In the run-up to today, I was mystified by seeing Kentucky being sent to Milwaukee in so many mock brackets.  The reason generally given was that Milwaukee was the closest first-weekend site to Lexington.  However, in the NCAA bracketing guidelines, no mention is made of exact distance in determining a team’s playing site.  The only statement in the guidelines refers to placing a team in their general region of interest.  To me, this meant that Kentucky would either play in Jacksonville or New Orleans.  Also, since I had 3 Big Ten teams as top 4 seeds, I figured that 2 of them would be playing in Milwaukee.  Given the lack of other strong SEC or ACC teams besides Duke, I decided to place Kentucky in Jacksonville.  I was wrong, but Kentucky did get sent to New Orleans.
• In the bracketing guidelines, there is mention made of placing teams from the same conference in the same pod (so as to play in the Sweet 16 if both teams get that far), but only if other bracketing possibilities are exhausted.  I believe this is the first year this was done, and it was done twice for the Big East.  I especially don’t like seeing it done in the lower half of the East regional, as I think there’s a good chance that Marquette and West Virginia will play each other in the Sweet 16.  I’d like to see the committee go away from this practice.  I don’t think it’s too hard to separate conference teams, even if there are 8 from the same conference.
• Before today, I often heard from the TV experts that the field was wide-open this year, with any number of teams who could win it all.  I was surprised to hear this, because to me Kansas has far and away the best team this year, with veteran leadership, strong inside play, and a versatile offense that can beat you in a number of ways.  Now it appears that many of the TV experts are picking Kansas to win it all.  I think they’ll end up beating Kentucky and would not be surprised to see something similar to the 1992 title game, where a veteran Duke team beat a young Michigan team quite handily in the championship game.

Possible Future Changes:

• Factor in # Conference Losses for Mid-major teams
• Less Weight on Conference Tournament victories (Of the 7 teams that were overvalued, 5 won their conference tournaments, and the other 2 made the finals)
• Factor in a Regular-Season Big Conference Champion Bonus

FINAL BRACKET

	Midwest	South	East	West
1	Kansas	Kentucky	Duke	Syracuse
2	Ohio St	Georgetown	West Virginia	Kansas St
3	Villanova	Baylor	Temple	New Mexico
4	Butler	Purdue	Pittsburgh	Wisconsin
5	Maryland	Texas A&M	Michigan St	Tennessee
6	Vanderbilt	Northern Iowa	BYU	Gonzaga
7	Richmond	Xavier	Oklahoma St	Notre Dame
8	St Marys	Marquette	UTEP	Texas
9	Louisville	San Diego St	Washington	Clemson
10	California	UNLV	Georgia Tech	Wake Forest
11	Missouri	Florida St	Minnesota	Utah St
12	Florida	Cornell	Siena	Old Dominion
13	New Mexico St	Murray State	Oakland	Wofford
14	Sam Houston St	Houston	Ohio	UCSB
15	North Texas	Vermont	Morgan St	Montana
16	Lehigh	Arkansas-PB/Winthrop	ETSU	Robert Morris
	Last 5 In	In Today	Out Today	By Conference
	Florida State	Florida	Mississippi St	Big East – 8
	Utah St			Big 12 – 7
	Missouri			ACC – 6
	Minnesota			Big 10 – 5
	Florida			SEC – 4
				Mountain West – 4
	First 5 Out			Atlantic 10 – 3
	Illinois			Pac 10 – 2
	Mississippi St			West Coast – 2
	Virginia Tech			Conference USA – 2
	Seton Hall			WAC – 2
	Mississippi			All Others – 1
	Next 5 Out
	Arizona St
	South Florida
	UAB
	Rhode Island
	Wichita St

Bracket Notes

Even with a loss in today’s Big Ten Championship, Minnesota has done enough to earn one of the last at-large spots into the NCAA tournament.

The last spot is up for grabs between Florida, Illinois, and Mississippi State.  I would not be surprised to see any of these 3 teams make the field.  I believe Florida will be chosen based on a combination of big wins (Michigan State, Florida State, Tennessee), passing the “eye-test”, overall record, and Strength of Schedule.  Mississippi State does not have the big wins, although they came close twice against Kentucky, or the schedule to match Florida.  Illinois does not have the overall record, plus their RPI of 75 would set a record for worst RPI to get into the field as an at-large.

Although Virginia Tech looks like a deserving team, the committee has in the past punished teams who schedule as poorly as they did this year.

Projected Sites

New Orleans – Villanova/Vanderbilt/Missouri/Sam Houston St
New Orleans – Baylor/Northern Iowa/Florida St/Houston
Oklahoma City – Kansas/St Marys/Louisville/Lehigh
Oklahoma City – Kansas St/Notre Dame/Wake Forest/Montana
Providence – Georgetown/Xavier/UNLV/Vermont
Providence – Temple/BYU/Minnesota/Ohio
San Jose – New Mexico/Gonzaga/Utah St/UCSB
San Jose – Butler/Maryland/Florida/New Mexico St
Buffalo – Syracuse/Texas/Clemson/Robert Morris
Buffalo – West Virginia/Oklahoma St/Georgia Tech/Morgan St
Jacksonville – Kentucky/Marquette/San Diego St/Play-in Winner
Jacksonville – Duke/UTEP/Washington/ETSU
Milwaukee – Ohio St/Richmond/California/North Texas
Milwaukee – Wisconsin/Tennessee/Old Dominion/Wofford
Spokane – Pittsburgh/Michigan St/Siena/Oakland
Spokane – Purdue/Texas A&M/Cornell/Murray St

March 14th Bracket

This is not the Final Bracket!

	Midwest	South	East	West
1	Kansas	Kentucky	West Virginia	Syracuse
2	Ohio St	Georgetown	Duke	Kansas St
3	Villanova	New Mexico	Purdue	Butler
4	Pittsburgh	Baylor	Tennessee	Temple
5	Maryland	Michigan St	Texas A&M	Wisconsin
6	Northern Iowa	Richmond	BYU	Vanderbilt
7	Gonzaga	Oklahoma St	Xavier	Notre Dame
8	San Diego St	Marquette	UTEP	Texas
9	Washington	Clemson	St Marys	Wake Forest
10	Georgia Tech	California	Louisville	UNLV
11	Utah St	Florida St	Missouri	Minnesota
12	Mississippi St	Cornell	Siena	Old Dominion
13	Oakland	New Mexico St	Murray State	Wofford
14	North Texas	Houston	Ohio	Sam Houston St
15	UCSB	Vermont	Morgan St	Montana
16	Lehigh	Arkansas-PB/Winthrop	ETSU	Robert Morris
	Last 4 In	In Today	Out Today	By Conference
	Mississippi St	Mississippi St	Mississippi	Big East – 8
	Minnesota	Ohio	Akron	Big 12 – 7
	Missouri	Houston	Seton Hall	ACC – 6
	Utah St	Minnesota	Illinois	Big 10 – 5
		New Mexico St	Virginia Tech	SEC – 4
				Mountain West – 4
	Last 4 Out			Atlantic 10 – 3
	Virginia Tech			Pac 10 – 2
	Seton Hall			West Coast – 2
	Mississippi			Conference USA – 2
	Arizona St			WAC – 2
				All Others – 1

Bracket Notes

The last 2 teams in are Mississippi State and Minnesota.  Both teams need to win today to secure their bids.  A loss will drop either team below the other teams that are currently outside the bubble according to our S-Curve calculations.

The biggest question tomorrow is what will the committe do if either Minnesota or Mississippi State loses.  Will they select Virginia Tech despite their atrocious non-conference schedule?  Will they do something similar to last year, when they picked an Arizona team that had some big wins, but a mediocre profile? The team that most fits that description this year is Illinois, who showed it can play with the best teams in the country over the last 2 days.  Currently, Illinois is the 11th team out according to our S-Curve calculations, but strong consideration will be given to them should a spot open up tomorrow.

The final bracket will be posted while the Big Ten championship is going on.

Current S-Curve Ranking for all conference champions and RPI top 100 teams

Kansas

Kentucky

West Virginia

Syracuse

Duke

Kansas State

Ohio State

Georgetown

Purdue

Villanova

New Mexico

Butler

Temple

Pittsburgh

Baylor

Tennessee

Wisconsin

Michigan State

Texas A&M

Maryland

Vanderbilt

BYU

Richmond

Northern Iowa

Gonzaga

Notre Dame

Oklahoma State

Xavier

Marquette

Texas

San Diego State

UTEP

Saint Mary’s College

Washington

Clemson

Wake Forest

UNLV

Louisville

Georgia Tech

California

Florida State

Utah State

Missouri

Minnesota

Old Dominion

Mississippi State

Virginia Tech

Seton Hall

Siena

Ole Miss

Arizona State

South Florida

Florida

UAB

Rhode Island

Cornell

Wichita State

Cincinnati

Illinois

Memphis

William & Mary

Connecticut

Kent State

Dayton

New Mexico State

Murray State

Virginia Commonwealth

Marshall

Saint John’s

Charlotte

North Carolina State

Illinois State

Oakland

Saint Louis

Wofford

Tulsa

Northeastern

South Carolina

North Carolina

Portland

Akron

Nevada

Louisiana Tech

Miami

Alabama

Texas Tech

Fairfield

Arizona

Iona

Missouri State

Morehead State

IUPUI

Sam Houston State

Ohio

Weber State

Wright State

Houston

Indiana State

North Texas

UC Santa Barbara

College Of Charleston

Montana

Vermont

Morgan State

Robert Morris

East Tennessee State

Lehigh

Winthrop

Arkansas-Pine Bluff

March 13th Bracket

	Midwest	South	West	East
1	Kansas	Kentucky	Syracuse	Duke
2	Ohio St	Kansas St	Purdue	West Virginia
3	Villanova	Georgetown	New Mexico	Tennessee
4	Butler	Temple	Baylor	Pittsburgh
5	Vanderbilt	Michigan St	Maryland	Wisconsin
6	Texas A&M	Northern Iowa	UTEP	BYU
7	Xavier	UNLV	Gonzaga	Oklahoma St
8	Marquette	Notre Dame	Richmond	Texas
9	Utah St	Clemson	California	St Marys
10	San Diego St	Florida St	Louisville	Wake Forest
11	Georgia Tech	Washington	Missouri	Old Dominion
12	Virginia Tech	Seton Hall	Siena	Mississippi
13	Illinois	Cornell	Oakland	Murray State
14	Montana	Akron	Sam Houston St	Wofford
15	UCSB	North Texas	Vermont	Morgan St
16	Robert Morris	Arkansas-PB/Lehigh	Winthrop	ETSU
	In the Mix	In Today	Out Today	By Conference
	South Florida	Illinois	Florida	Big East – 9
	Arizona St			Big 12 – 7
	Florida			ACC – 7
	Rhode Island			Big 10 – 5
	Minnesota			SEC – 4
	Mississippi St			Mountain West – 4
				Atlantic 10 – 3
				Pac 10 – 2
				West Coast – 2
				All Others – 1

March 12th Bracket

	Midwest	South	West	East
1	Kansas	Kentucky	Syracuse	West Virginia
2	New Mexico	Kansas St	Purdue	Duke
3	Ohio St	Georgetown	Baylor	Temple
4	Villanova	Michigan St	Butler	Wisconsin
5	Tennessee	Pittsburgh	Maryland	Vanderbilt
6	Notre Dame	Northern Iowa	BYU	Texas A&M
7	Texas	Xavier	Richmond	Marquette
8	Utah St	UTEP	Gonzaga	Oklahoma St
9	Florida St	Missouri	California	St Marys
10	Wake Forest	Clemson	Louisville	UNLV
11	Florida	Washington	Virginia Tech	Old Dominion
12	San Diego St	Georgia Tech	Mississippi	Seton Hall
13	Siena	Cornell	Oakland	Murray State
14	Montana	Akron	Sam Houston St	Wofford
15	UCSB	North Texas	Vermont	Morgan St
16	Robert Morris	Arkansas-PB/Lehigh	Winthrop	ETSU
	In the Mix	In Today	Out Today	By Conference
	South Florida	Akron	Kent St	Big East – 9
	Rhode Island	Seton Hall	UAB	Big 12 – 7
	UAB	Georgia Tech	Arizona St	ACC – 7
	Cincinnati			SEC – 5
	Dayton			Big 10 – 4
	Illinois			Mountain West – 4
	Minnesota			Atlantic 10 – 3
	Mississippi St			Pac 10 – 2
				West Coast – 2
				All Others – 1

Bracket Notes

The last 4 teams in are Georgia Tech, Seton Hall, San Diego State, and Mississippi

Bracket Adjustments:

Down one seed line: Oklahoma State, Louisville, Clemson

Up one seed line: Richmond, California, Missouri

The Selection Committee is not supposed to use a team’s record in their last 12 games as a selection criteria this year. However, I do believe it will still have some effect on the committee’s decision, and it is incorporated in the S-curve calculation. It will be interesting to see where some teams who finished poorly, like Villanova, Texas, Wake Forest, and Georgia Tech, and teams that finished well, like Butler, UTEP, and St Mary’s, are seeded this year.

Projected Sites

New Orleans – Baylor/BYU/Virginia Tech/Sam Houston St
New Orleans – Villanova/Tennessee/San Diego St/Siena
Oklahoma City – Kansas/Utah St/Florida St/Robert Morris
Oklahoma City – Kansas St/Xavier/Clemson/North Texas
Providence – Georgetown/Northern Iowa/Washington/Akron
Providence – Temple/Texas A&M/Old Dominion/Wofford
San Jose – New Mexico/Texas/Wake Forest/UCSB
San Jose – Butler/Maryland/Mississippi/Oakland
Buffalo – Syracuse/Gonzaga/California/Winthrop
Buffalo – West Virginia/Oklahoma St/St Marys/ETSU
Jacksonville – Kentucky/UTEP/Missouri/Play-in Winner
Jacksonville – Duke/Marquette/UNLV/Morgan St
Milwaukee – Purdue/Richmond/Louisville/Vermont
Milwaukee – Ohio St/Notre Dame/Florida/Montana
Spokane – Wisconsin/Vanderbilt/Seton Hall/Murray St
Spokane – Michigan St/Pittsburgh/Georgia Tech/Cornell

March 11th Bracket

	Midwest	South	East	West
1	Kansas	Syracuse	Kentucky	Duke
2	Ohio St	Kansas St	Purdue	West Virginia
3	Villanova	New Mexico	Pittsburgh	Michigan St
4	Temple	Wisconsin	Georgetown	Baylor
5	Butler	Tennessee	Texas A&M	Vanderbilt
6	Texas	Northern Iowa	Maryland	BYU
7	UTEP	Xavier	Richmond	Oklahoma St
8	Notre Dame	Clemson	Utah St	Gonzaga
9	Wake Forest	St Marys	Florida St	Marquette
10	UNLV	Louisville	Missouri	California
11	Virginia Tech	Washington	Florida	Old Dominion
12	Mississippi	UAB	Arizona St	San Diego St
13	Siena	Kent St	Cornell	Murray State
14	North Texas	Sam Houston St	Oakland	Wofford
15	Montana	UCSB	Vermont	Morgan St
16	Robert Morris	Arkansas-PB/Lehigh	ETSU	Winthrop
	In the Mix	In Today	Out Today	By Conference
	Seton Hall	Montana	Weber St	Big East – 8
	South Florida	Robert Morris	Quinnipiac	Big 12 – 7
	Memphis	San Diego St	Seton Hall	ACC – 6
	Rhode Island	Arizona St	South Florida	SEC – 5
	Georgia Tech			Big 10 – 4
	Cincinnati			Mountain West – 4
	Mississippi St			Pac 10 – 3
	Dayton			Atlantic 10 – 3
	Illinois			Conference USA – 2
				West Coast – 2
				All Others – 1

Bracket Notes

The last 4 teams in are Mississippi, Arizona State, UAB, and San Diego State.

Seton Hall and South Florida are only in the mix in case the other bubble teams horribly fail in the next few days.

Maryland and Texas A&M have flipped seeds in order to conform with bracket rules.

March 9th Bracket

	Midwest	South	East	West
1	Kansas	Syracuse	Kentucky	Duke
2	Ohio St	Kansas St	Purdue	West Virginia
3	Villanova	New Mexico	Pittsburgh	Michigan St
4	Temple	Wisconsin	Georgetown	Baylor
5	Butler	Tennessee	Maryland	Vanderbilt
6	Texas	Northern Iowa	BYU	Texas A&M
7	UTEP	Xavier	Oklahoma St	Richmond
8	Florida St	Clemson	Gonzaga	Louisville
9	Marquette	Missouri	Utah St	St Marys
10	California	Notre Dame	Wake Forest	UNLV
11	Virginia Tech	Washington	Florida	Old Dominion
12	Mississippi	Seton Hall	UAB	South Florida
13	Siena	Kent St	Cornell	Murray State
14	Sam Houston St	Weber St	Oakland	Wofford
15	Quinnipiac	UCSB	North Texas	Morgan St
16	Vermont	Arkansas-PB/Lehigh	ETSU	Winthrop
	In the Mix	In Today	Out Today	By Conference
	San Diego St			Big East – 10
	Arizona St			Big 12 – 7
	Memphis			ACC – 6
	Georgia Tech			SEC – 5
	Rhode Island			Big 10 – 4
	Connecticut			Atlantic 10 – 3
	Mississippi St			Mountain West – 3
	Illinois			West Coast – 2
	Dayton			Conference USA – 2
				Pac 10 – 2
				All Others – 1

March 8th Bracket

	Midwest	South	East	West
1	Kansas	Syracuse	Kentucky	Duke
2	Ohio St	Kansas St	Purdue	West Virginia
3	Villanova	New Mexico	Pittsburgh	Michigan St
4	Maryland	Wisconsin	Baylor	Georgetown
5	Temple	Tennessee	Butler	Texas A&M
6	Texas	Northern Iowa	BYU	Vanderbilt
7	Gonzaga	UTEP	Xavier	Oklahoma St
8	Louisville	Florida St	Clemson	Richmond
9	Utah St	Missouri	Marquette	UNLV
10	Virginia Tech	Notre Dame	California	Wake Forest
11	Washington	St Marys	Florida	South Florida
12	UAB	Seton Hall	Old Dominion	Mississippi
13	Siena	Kent St	Cornell	Murray State
14	Sam Houston St	Weber St	Oakland	Wofford
15	UCSB	Quinnipiac	North Texas	Morgan St
16	Vermont	Arkansas-PB/Lehigh	ETSU	Winthrop
	In the Mix	In Today	Out Today	By Conference
	San Diego St	Vermont	Stony Brook	Big East – 10
	Arizona St			Big 12 – 7
	Memphis			ACC – 6
	Georgia Tech			SEC – 5
	Rhode Island			Big 10 – 4
	Connecticut			Atlantic 10 – 3
	Mississippi St			Mountain West – 3
	William & Mary			West Coast – 2
	Illinois			Conference USA – 2
	Dayton			Pac 10 – 2
				All Others – 1

Bracket Notes

Oklahoma St and Marquette move up a seed line, and Richmond and Wake Forest move down a seed line, in order to conform to bracket rules.

Projected Sites

New Orleans – Michigan St/Vanderbilt/South Florida/Wofford
New Orleans – Georgetown/Texas A&M/Mississippi/Murray St
Oklahoma City – Kansas/Louisville/Utah St/Stony Brook
Oklahoma City – Kansas St/UTEP/Notre Dame/Quinnipiac
Providence – Villanova/Texas/Washington/Sam Houston St
Providence – Pittsburgh/BYU/Florida/Oakland
San Jose – New Mexico/Northern Iowa/St Marys/Weber St
San Jose – Baylor/Butler/Old Dominion/Cornell
Buffalo – Syracuse/Florida St/Missouri/Play-in Winner
Buffalo – West Virginia/Oklahoma St/Wake Forest/Morgan St
Jacksonville – Kentucky/Clemson/Marquette/ETSU
Jacksonville – Duke/Richmond/UNLV/Winthrop
Milwaukee – Purdue/Xavier/California/North Texas
Milwaukee – Ohio St/Gonzaga/Virginia Tech/UCSB
Spokane – Wisconsin/Tennessee/Seton Hall/Kent St
Spokane – Maryland/Temple/UAB/Siena

Games to Watch this Week

Monday – MAAC Championship, CAA Championship, WCC Championship, Southern Championship

Tuesday – Sun Belt Championship, Horizon Championship, Summit Championship

Wednesday – Big East Second Round

Thursday– Big East Quarterfinals, Big 12 Quarterfinals

Friday – CUSA Semifinals, ACC Quarterfinals, Patriot Championship, SEC Quarterfinals, A-10 Quarterfinals, Illinois/Wisconsin, Big 12 Semifinals, Big East Semifinals, MWC Semifinals, Pac 10 Semifinals

Saturday – America East Championship, CUSA Championship, SEC Semifinals, A-10 Semifinals, ACC Semifinals, Big 10 Semifinals, Big West Championship, Southland Championship, MAC Championship, PAC 10 Championship, SWAC Championship, MWC Championship, WAC Championship, Big East Championship

Sunday – ACC Championship, A-10 Championship, SEC Championship, Big 10 Championship

March 7th Bracket

	Midwest	South	East	West
1	Kansas	Syracuse	Kentucky	Duke
2	New Mexico	Ohio St	Purdue	West Virginia
3	Pittsburgh	Kansas St	Villanova	Michigan St
4	Georgetown	Temple	Maryland	Baylor
5	Wisconsin	Tennessee	Texas A&M	Butler
6	Vanderbilt	Clemson	Texas	BYU
7	UTEP	Northern Iowa	Xavier	Gonzaga
8	Florida St	Oklahoma St	Utah St	Louisville
9	Richmond	Wake Forest	Marquette	California
10	Missouri	Notre Dame	UNLV	Virginia Tech
11	Washington	Old Dominion	St Marys	Florida
12	Mississippi	Seton Hall	UAB	South Florida
13	Siena	Kent St	Cornell	Murray State
14	Weber St	Sam Houston St	Wofford	Oakland
15	UCSB	Quinnipiac	North Texas	Morgan St
16	Stony Brook	Arkansas-PB/Lehigh	ETSU	Winthrop
	In the Mix	In Today	Out Today	By Conference
	San Diego St	South Florida	Illinois	Big East – 10
	Arizona St	Mississippi	Georgia Tech	Big 12 – 7
	Georgia Tech	Seton Hall	Rhode Island	ACC – 6
	Memphis			SEC – 5
	Illinois			Big 10 – 4
	Rhode Island			Atlantic 10 – 3
	Wichita St			Mountain West – 3
	Connecticut			West Coast – 2
	Mississippi St			Conference USA – 2
				Pac 10 – 2
				All Others – 1

Bracket Notes

Utah St, Marquette, and California move up a seed line, and Richmond, Missouri, and Virginia Tech move down one in order to conform to bracket rules.

The last 4 teams are: Seton Hall, UAB, Ole Miss and South Florida

March 5th Bracket

	South	Midwest	East	West
1	Syracuse	Kansas	Kentucky	Kansas St
2	New Mexico	Ohio St	Duke	Purdue
3	Michigan St	West Virginia	Villanova	Pittsburgh
4	Baylor	Maryland	Wisconsin	Vanderbilt
5	Temple	Tennessee	Butler	Georgetown
6	Clemson	Texas	BYU	Texas A&M
7	Marquette	Gonzaga	Missouri	Xavier
8	UTEP	Richmond	Oklahoma St	Northern Iowa
9	Wake Forest	Louisville	Notre Dame	UNLV
10	Florida	Virginia Tech	Utah St	Florida St
11	Rhode Island	UAB	St Marys	California
12	Illinois	Washington	Old Dominion	Georgia Tech
13	Siena	Cornell	Kent St	Murray State
14	Weber St	Sam Houston St	Wofford	Oakland
15	UCSB	Belmont	Morgan St	North Texas
16	Arkansas-PB/Lehigh	Stony Brook	Quinnipiac	Coastal Carolina
	In the Mix	In Today	Out Today	By Conference
	Mississippi	Washington	San Diego St	Big East – 8
	South Florida			Big 12 – 7
	San Diego St			ACC – 7
	Connecticut			Big 10 – 5
	Seton Hall			SEC – 4
	Mississippi St			Atlantic 10 – 4
	Arizona St			Mountain West – 3
	Dayton			West Coast – 2
	Memphis			Conference USA – 2
	Charlotte			Pac 10 – 2
	Cincinnati			All Others – 1