Sunday, March 11, 2007

Final Look at My Bubble Teams - NCAA Tourney Field Predictions for 2007

Updated Look at Bubble Teams for 2007 and Projecting the NCAA Tourney Field

EDIT: I picked 63/65, with one of my locks (Syracuse) snubbed.

Last two years' predictions -
2006: 63/65 teams
2005: 65/65 teams

TEAMS THAT I THINK ARE LOCKS/AUTOBIDS (parenthesis contain total number of bids for the conference; the first number is the locks and the second number is the total bids the conference will get as of right now)

Am East(1/1) - ALBANY
ACC(6/7) - UNC, VaTech, Virginia, BC, Duke, Maryland
A. Sun(1/1) - BELMONT
A-10(2/2) - GEORGE WASHINGTON, Xavier
Big East(6/7) - GEORGETOWN, Pitt, Louisville, Notre Dame, Marquette, Syracuse
Big Sky(1/1) - WEBER STATE
Big South(1/1) - WINTHROP
Big Ten(4/6) - OHIO STATE, Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan State
Big 12(3/4) - KANSAS, Texas, Texas A&M
Big West(1/1) - LONG BEACH STATE
CAA(1/1) - VCU
CUSA(1/1) - MEMPHIS
Horizon(2/2) - WRIGHT STATE, Butler
Ivy(1/1) - PENN
MAAC(1/1) - NIAGARA
MAC(1/1) - MIAMI (OH)
MCC(1/1) - ORU
MEAC(1/1) - FAMU
MVC(2/3) - CREIGHTON, S. Illinois
MWC(1/2) - UNLV
NEC(1/1) - CCST
OVC(1/1) - E. KENTUCKY
Patriot(1/1) - HOLY CROSS
Pac-10(5/5) - UCLA, Washington St., Arizona, USC, OREGON
SEC(4/5) - FLORIDA, Vanderbilt, Kentucky, Tennessee
Southern(1/1) - DAVIDSON
Southland(1/1) - TEXAS A&M - CC
SWAC(1/1) - JACKSON STATE
Sun Belt(1/1) - NORTH TEXAS
WCC(1/1) - GONZAGA
WAC(2/2) - NEW MEXICO STATE, Nevada

BOLD TEAMS WON THEIR CONFERENCE TOURNAMENT

TEAMS THAT I THINK ARE ON THE BUBBLE
So here's who I have on the Bubble... 8 spots are up for grabs

Those teams IN are noted with an asterisk (*).
Georgia Tech *
Florida State
Clemson
UMass
Rhode Island
Villanova *
W. Virginia
DePaul
Illinois *
Purdue *
Michigan
Kansas State
Texas Tech *
Oklahoma State
Old Dominion
Drexel
Bradley
Missouri State *
BYU *
Air Force
San Diego St
Stanford
Georgia
Alabama
Arkansas *
Ole Miss
Mississippi State
Davidson

NUMBER ONE SEEDS: OHIO STATE, NORTH CAROLINA, FLORIDA, KANSAS

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