The Bracket Project

Monday, January 28, 2013

Bracket - January 28

A lot of movement in the bracket but the only new at-large team is La Salle, replacing Boise State. Villanova is the first team out. Yes they got those two huge wins last week, but we're all about resumes now and those Providence and Columbia losses stick out. We'll wait a week and see how they (and the teams above them) do.

I really don't think the NCAA will send first round winners west to San Jose so I moved up one of the first-round games to an 11 seed to keep them closer to Dayton.

This bracket takes into account games played thru January 27 and is independent from what the Bracket Matrix shows.

1 - Michigan, Kansas, Florida, Indiana
2 - Arizona, Duke, Gonzaga, Syracuse
3 - Butler, Ohio State, Louisville, Michigan State
4 - Wichita State, Minnesota, Oregon, Miami (FLA.)
5 - Creighton, North Carolina State, Cincinnati, New Mexico
6 - Missouri, Kansas State, San Diego State, Mississippi
7 - Wisconsin, Marquette, UNLV, Colorado State
8 - Pittsburgh, Virginia Commonwealth, Georgetown, UCLA
9 - Notre Dame, Belmont, Colorado, Baylor
10 - North Carolina, Southern Miss, Oklahoma State, Oklahoma
11 - SMC/Memphis, Kentucky, Illinois, La Salle
12 - BYU, Middle Tennessee, Bucknell, Iowa State
13 - Wyoming/Iowa, Louisiana Tech, Akron, Stephen F. Austin
14 - Davidson, Harvard, Stony Brook, Valparaiso
15 - Northeastern, Long Beach State, Niagara, Western Illinois
16 - Southern/Mercer, Robert Morris/Charleston Southern, NC-Central, Montana

Bracket (I haven't checked this to get rid of regular season rematches, so it may have a few.)

Monday, January 21, 2013

Bracket - January 21

Hey, it's my first bracket of the season. As always, this is my opinion and not based on the bracket matrix. Applies for games played through January 20. Here we go.

Illinois/Southern Miss moved up to an 11 seed to conform to bracket principles.

1 - Duke, Michigan, Kansas, Syracuse
2 - Louisville, Arizona, Florida, Indiana
3 - Butler, Gonzaga, Minnesota, Michigan State
4 - Ohio State, Kansas State, Creighton, New Mexico
5 - Oregon, Wichita State, North Carolina State, Virginia Commonwealth
6 - Cincinnati, UNLV, Missouri, Miami (FL)
7 - San Diego State, Mississippi, Marquette, Notre Dame
8 - Pittsburgh, UCLA, Colorado State, Wisconsin
9 - Oklahoma State, Wyoming, Kentucky, Belmont
10 - Baylor, Colorado, Iowa State, Oklahoma
11 - Memphis, North Carolina, Bucknell, Illinois/Southern Miss
12 - Boise State, Iowa, BYU, Middle Tennessee
13 - St. Mary's/Georgetown, North Dakota State, Stephen F. Austin, Akron
14 - Weber State, Harvard, Valparaiso, Louisiana Tech
15 - Davidson, Bryant, Long Beach State, North Carolina Central
16 - Northeastern, Vermont, Charleston Southern/Stetson, Niagara/Southern

Bracket

Friday, November 9, 2012

Welcome back! 2012-13 Edition

Tonight marks the beginning of a brand new season of college basketball and another edition of The Bracket Project. My first bracket projection won't be released until January 2013 but you can see the Bracket Matrix right now.

If you want to contribute to the matrix, please read this:

1. You need to set up a web site to place your bracket that will be consistent throughout the season. A blog will do. A web site will most definitely do. A bracket posted on a message board will not do. The link will change frequently and will get lost in various discussions, making it difficult for the average reader to find it. (Exception: A message board devoted exclusively to bracketology.) Also, you can't post it on Facebook or some other social networking site because not everyone can access it. However, in order to promote discussion, an email address or some comment platform must be provided so that readers can praise or criticize your bracket.

2. You have to tell me where your site is. I don't have a sixth sense when it comes to finding these things. I rely on you and readers like you to tell me what kind of sites to add to this page.

3. The NCAA sets up procedures and principles for building a bracket. Read them! A seriously flawed bracket won't be posted. However, if your seedings are out of the norm, I'll still most likely post it provided that the principles are followed and you have an explanation as to why you've built the bracket like you did. I reserve the right to not post a bracket with something like a winless team as a #1 seed.

4. Please date-stamp your bracket. Brackets of a certain age will be removed from the list, and if there's no date-stamp, obviously I can't tell when your bracket was updated.

5. To make it easier on me, please format your bracket so that at least half of it can be seen on the screen at any one time. You can make it even easier for me by publishing a seed list of your 68 teams. Brackets must have at least 48 seeded teams to be listed in the matrix. Sites that merely list teams with no seeding can be linked to the page but will not be added to the matrix. To be listed in the final matrix of the season, you must have all 68 seeded teams.

6. No new sites will be added to the 2013 page after March 1, 2013 unless you appear in the rankings page (linked to the side), in which case, you will be grandfathered in. In addition, no bracket will be accepted to the final matrix of the season after the beginning of the Selection Sunday show.

7. Link to my site! I've linked to yours!

8. I'm only one guy. If this could pay me what I get at my regular job, I'd update this site 24/7. That simply is not the case. If someone else can do this better, I'll gladly step aside, but from the looks of it, I'm the only (crazy) one. So if you don't see your site on here, an update hasn't been done for a while or I don't respond to you, I hope you'll understand why.

Monday, March 12, 2012