Bracketology 2012-2013

[TheAsianSensation]

Since the committee releases S-Curves, I'll jam in mine here too for comparison's sake in a bit.

The 1 line
Kansas (29-5)
Louisville (29-5)
Indiana (27-6)
Gonzaga (30-2)

The 2 line
Miami (27-6)
Duke (27-5)
Georgetown (25-6)
Ohio St (26-7)

The 3 line
New Mexico (29-5)
Michigan St (24-8)
Michigan (25-7)
Florida (26-7)

The 4 line
Marquette (23-8)
Kansas St (26-7)
St Louis (27-6)
Wisconsin (23-11)

The 5 line
Syracuse (26-9)
Oklahoma St (24-8)
UCLA (25-9)
Arizona (25-7)

The 6 line
UNLV (24-9)
Pittsburgh (24-8)
Butler (25-8)
Oregon (26-8)

The 7 line
Notre Dame (25-9)
Creighton (27-7)
VCU (26-8)
North Carolina (23-10)

The 8 line
Colorado St (23-8)
Memphis (30-4)
Illinois (21-12)
North Carolina St (24-10)

The 9 line
Wichita St (26-8)
Minnesota (20-12)
Belmont (24-6)
Temple (23-9)

The 10 line
Missouri (23-10)
Iowa St (22-11)
Villanova (19-13)
Mississippi (26-8)

The 11 line
Colorado (21-11)
San Diego St (20-10)
Cincinnati (22-11)
Oklahoma (20-11)

The 12 line
California (20-11)
Boise St (19-10)
LaSalle (21-9)
St Mary's (26-6)
Tennessee (20-12)
Bucknell (27-5)

The 13 line
Akron (25-6)
South Dakota St (22-9)
New Mexico St (23-10)
Valparaiso (25-7)

The 14 line
Davidson (25-7)
Northwestern St (19-8)
Montana (23-6)
Iona (20-13)

The 15 line
Harvard (18-9)
FGCU (22-10)
Pacific (20-12)
Albany (24-10)

The 16 line
Long Island (20-13)
Southern (20-9)
James Madison (20-14)
Western Kentucky (19-15)
North Carolina A&T (18-16)
Liberty (12-20)

Last 1 in:
Tennessee

Last 3 out
Massachusetts
Middle Tennessee St
Virginia

[TheAsianSensation]

Last 4 in are mid majors. BCS teams left out. Ignoring the first four games (4 mid majors), no at-large mid major teams are playing each other.

If anyone complains about a mid-major bias from the committee this year, I might actually ban them on sight.

[Fargobison]

I wish you could ban Jay Bilas from my TV. Does he ever not whine about the brackets and mid-major teams?

[Khan4Cats]

Last 4 in are mid majors. BCS teams left out. Ignoring the first four games (4 mid majors), no at-large mid major teams are playing each other.

If anyone complains about a mid-major bias from the committee this year, I might actually ban them on sight.

I really like that the committe made a statement about non-conference schedules with tehe teams left out. I was going to question why no Major teams were sent to Dayton, but I think the committee got it right on these. They have sent Majors there before, but I don't think any were 'deserving' of getting in and getting sent there this year.

[isumvc1]

Last 4 in are mid majors. BCS teams left out. Ignoring the first four games (4 mid majors), no at-large mid major teams are playing each other.

If anyone complains about a mid-major bias from the committee this year, I might actually ban them on sight.

I consider the VCU-Akron game, New Mexico St-St. Louis, and the Butler-Bucknell game matchups of "mid majors"

They are matchups of teams not in BCS conferences

[TheAsianSensation]

Last 4 in are mid majors. BCS teams left out. Ignoring the first four games (4 mid majors), no at-large mid major teams are playing each other.

If anyone complains about a mid-major bias from the committee this year, I might actually ban them on sight.

I consider the VCU-Akron game, New Mexico St-St. Louis, and the Butler-Bucknell game matchups of "mid majors"

They are matchups of teams not in BCS conferences

Yeah, but those are 3 auto bid teams, not at-larges. Akron, NMSU, and Bucknell aren't getting at-larges, so I don't count them as much. Besides, Akron and Bucknell actually got generous seeds.

[TheAsianSensation]

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketb ... -seed-list

Creighton was one spot away from a SIX seed.

Wichita was a true 9.

[TheAsianSensation]

Let's compare S-Curves. NCAA has their 1-68, I have my 1-68.

On average, for each and every team, I was an average of 2.47 positions off of the committee's rankings.

If you remove the two outliers, San Diego St, and Oregon, I was under 2.00 on the other 66 teams. Which means on average, I was within 2 spots of their actual ranking.

The best part was the top 4 lines. I missed pegging the exact order of the top 16 by 11 total spots in the rankings.


I can run the comparison for other bracketologists if I can find their S-Curve.

[unipanther99]

Any last minute NIT thoughts? I'm a bit nervous.

[Haha]

When is the NIT show?