It is the first time that I've seen us in. Way too early but nevertheless, nice to see.
From http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/story/14537494/predicting-the-2011-ncaa-tournament-field
UPDATED: Tue, Jan. 11, 10:35 PM
Predicting the 2011 NCAA tournament field
By Jerry Palm
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Updated Jan. 11, 2011
The format for the 2011 NCAA tournament gives us 37 at-large teams instead of 34, and four play-in games.
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The Big East checks in with 11 teams this week (welcome Marquette), but I doubt very seriously that all 11 can qualify. Palm's Related links
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Two of the "First Four" games will feature the four lowest-seeded teams in the field, and the other two will have the four lowest-rated at-large teams. The four lowest-rated teams will play to become 16-seeds, as they have in the past. The four at-large teams will play for a seed in the lower part of the bracket, wherever the last seeds would fit. Most of the time, it will likely fall into the 12- or 13-seed range.
Bracket projections are always based on "as if the tournament started today." I am not predicting how teams will finish the season.
The committee tries to place teams as close to home as possible without violating any of their other bracket rules (like conference separation). However, teams cannot play on their home floors or where they are the host school.
The conference "champion" is the team with the fewest conference losses, with ties broken by RPI. I am not predicting that team will win the league. It is just the current leader. As conference tournament seeding gets determined, the leader will be the highest remaining seed in the conference tournament.
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11 of 16 teams?!?!?!?! That's 69% of the largest conference in the nation.
His bracket sucks
He has ND as a 2 seed, VIlle as a 5 and Cincy as a 6
Quote from: TallTitan34 on January 12, 2011, 10:04:42 AM
11 of 16 teams?!?!?!?! That's 69% of the largest conference in the nation.
Very unlikely. However I do think this is the year we could get 10. It will have less to do with the strength of the Big East as a perfect shakedown of conference standings and other conferences only getting 1 team into the tournament (no conference tourny upsets).
I realize these are just predictions, but no way ND will be a #2 seed come tourney selection time.
I think we can expect around 7-9 seed and honestly probably be about the same seeding as ND.