Bracket Notes:
- San Diego State is the final No. 1 seed, but loses its West Region route to Gonzaga in the process. The Aztecs perfect resume is the difference for now in comparing them to Butler. They are the last remaining undefeated team and have wins away from home against: Iowa a 5-seed, Creighton a 6-seed, and BYU in position to be a 9-seed.
- Speaking of BYU, they were moved in a rare occurance down to the 10-seed line for today due to an impossible 9-seed line scenario that would’ve not met their Thursday-Saturday requirement.
- Virginia Tech has a non-conference strength of schedule that is in the mid-300’s. This will be a major issue for the Hokies as long as they stay in the hunt for an at-large bid. No team has recieved an at-large with a higher seed than a 9-seed with a 250+ NCSOS. For today, since I do think they’ve earned a spot based on current reults, we will include them and place them as a 9-seed.
- Washington slips back into the field for now after an impressive win over Oregon State. The race for these final spots is beyond complicated. The main things I am looking at for now are NCSOS, Records away from home, records against teams in or near the field, and combined Q1/Q2/Q3 records. Got all that? Okay good.
- We welcome the Manhattan Jaspers and Hartford Hawks (postgame interview below) to the field for the first time after they each took out previous conference leaders’ Quinnipiac and Stony Brook respectively. East Tennessee State is locked in as the new SoCon leader after Furman fell on Friday night at Wofford.
Bracket projections are based on 2019-20 NCAA Committee Principles and Selection Process. Projected Conference Champions are based on projected Auto-Bid winners.
Bids Stolen: 0 (Unlikely. Still rolling with zero for now.)
*-BYU bumped to 10-seed due to bracketing rules.