Bracket - February 20

A brief update as I get the matrix updated for tonite.

NCAA seed list:

1 - Kentucky, Syracuse, Michigan State, Missouri
2 - Duke, North Carolina, Kansas, Ohio State
3 - Georgetown, Baylor, Marquette, Florida
4 - Michigan, Wisconsin, Wichita State, Louisville
5 - Florida State, UNLV, New Mexico, Indiana
6 - Vanderbilt, Notre Dame, Temple, St. Louis
7 - Murray State, Memphis, California, Gonzaga
8 - Kansas State, Creighton, Harvard, Virginia
9 - West Virginia, Southern Miss, St. Mary's (CA), San Diego State
10 - Texas, Alabama, Connecticut, Iowa State
11 - Purdue, BYU, Northwestern, Seton Hall
12 - Middle Tennessee, Miami, FL, Mississippi State, Long Beach State
13 - Arizona, Xavier, North Carolina State, Cincinnati, Iona, Belmont
14 - Davidson, Akron, Oral Roberts, Virginia Commonwealth
15 - Nevada, Texas-Arlington, Bucknell, Weber State
16 - Stony Brook, Savannah State, UNC-Asheville, Mississippi Valley, State, LIU-Brooklyn, Valparaiso

BYU and Texas switched seeds so that BYU doesn't play on Sundays.

http://bracketproject.50webs.com/PDFS/022012.pdf

NIT Seed List:

It's my first NIT bracket of the year so the standard disclaimer: I'm much, much, much better at trying to predict the NCAA bracket than the NIT bracket.  Regular readers know this well.  Also, seed lines 6-8 are vulnerable since regular season conference champions who don't go the NCAA tournament get an automatic bid here. 

So here we go.

1 - St. Joseph's, Washington, Minnesota, Illinois
2 - South Florida, Colorado State, Dayton, Central Florida
3 - Drexel, South Dakota State, Oregon, Arkansas
4 - Marshall, LSU, Wyoming, Colorado
5 - Northern Iowa, La Salle, Wagner, New Mexico State
6 - Massachusetts, Stanford, Cleveland State, UCLA
7 - Mississippi, Missouri State, Tennessee, Virginia Tech
8 - Maryland, Loyola Marymount, Ohio, Pittsburgh

Here's the NIT bracket (yep, there are principles and procedures to making a NIT bracket too!).

http://bracketproject.50webs.com/PDFS/NIT022012.pdf