Posted on 02/17/2017 2:53:10 PM PST by heterosupremacist
Yes 0bama was such a great White House occupier the Kenyans are claiming to have irrefutable proof he was born in Somlia
Imp,
could be a wipeout for NY and NewEng. No teams headed to sweet 16. Same for the state of Illinois.
Northwestern has got to at least make the tournament, c’mon.
west of the Mississippi unusually strong this year.
North of Ky, East of Mississippi is the new region.
Villanova and possibly no one else going to sweet 16
Indiana with 3 teams.
Vermont is a bad team despite the record. Will get blown out in first round.
Dayton. tough loss.
do they make the tourney as an at large bid?
Rhode Island victory keeps their hopes alive.
I divided top 50 RPI teams into 3 Geo areas.
West of Miss River
North of Ohio River
South
average ranking of North teams is much higher than South.
I am counting IA and AR as West. Minn is North
West Virginia is South
I do not expect North to do well next weekend ... getting to sweet 16
average rank of northern teams was 29
all teams of course, average rank is 25.5
ILL ST and USC are the last 2 teams out per ESPN
Rhode Island’s success is putting them in and closing the door on ILL ST.
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/bracketology/_/iteration/254
where are the Freeper Bracketologists?
NW made it to the Big 10 Semi Finals before getting whipped by Wisconsin.
60% chance to make it according to teamrankings.com
espn has them as a lock ... I will check out teamrankings
Google was out of date, Teamrankings now gives them a 84.5% chance.
https://www.teamrankings.com/ncaa-basketball/team/northwestern-wildcats/bracketology
Most likely seed, 11.
very different from ESPN
TR has Ill St and USC as very likely
ESPn has them out
No, the funniest part was watching Obama trying to spell Syracuse.
going into SUN action
ESPN HAS:
last 4 byes
Seton Hall (TR has them higher rank)
Providence
Marquette
Xavier (TR has higher)
Last 4 at-large IN, play in game
Wake Forest
Syracuse (TR has them OUT)
Kansas State
Rhode Island (TR has higher)
first 2 OUT
USC
Illinois State (TR has higher)
Teamrankings HAS:
last 4 byes
Michigan St (19-14) ESPN has them higher
USC (24-9) 24-9 87% 0% 0%
VA Tech (22-10) ESPN has them higher
Providence
Last 4 at-large IN, play in game
Marquette (19-12) 19-12 78% 0% 0%
Northwestern (23-11) ESPN has them higher
Oklahoma St (20-12) ESPN has them higher
Wake Forest
first 2 OUT
Kansas St
California ESPN has them out, even lower
Good.
What an infantile thing to see a President filling out a basketball prediction bracket.
A real leader has no time for that.
62 teams appear to be a lock. the discussion is about the final 6 at-large bids. 6 at most.
and of course 8 teams have to do the play in game. Discussion about which 8. I think 4 of the automatic bids are known in advance to be play in.
Seton Hall both sites
Providence both sites
Marquette both sites
Xavier both sites
Wake Forest both sites
Rhode Island both sites
Michigan St (19-14) both sites
VA Tech (22-10) both sites
Northwestern (23-11) both sites
Oklahoma St (20-12) both sites
Syracuse ESPN ONLY
Kansas State ESPN ONLY
USC (24-9) TR only
Illinois St TR only
those last 4 are the most likely to be left out.
the 2 sites have 66 teams in agreement, 4 teams fighting for the last 2 spots. In theory.
Teams that both sites agree are out.
California (21-12)
Houston (21-10)
Monmouth (27-6)
TX-Arlington (25-8)
Georgia (19-14)
Akron (26-8)
CBS has the same 66 teams, but in a different order.
USC and KS St are also in with CBS
Fox agrees with CBS, except they have RI out and ILL ST is in.
NBC agrees with CBS on the 68 teams
URI and VCU both in with byes. URI avoid play in game, bumping someone like Providence into a play in game.
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