2024 NCAA Tournament Bracketology

[JWags85]

Was checking some schedules of our opponents just to see what their outlooks may look like...that Illinois win is going to age like fine wine. Hoping Texas can bump up as well.

That game at UW-Madison would have been fantastic to steal. Looking at their schedule I don't see a loss until late January or Febuary. They are going to end up a top 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament, the Big Ten stinks.

Even with an 11 pt victory over MU, Wisconsin's +\- against top 20 teams is still -24 in 3 games.  They got comfortably manhandled by Tennessee the entire game and then got absolutely ROCKED by Zona.

They are gonna be road dogs at OSU, Northwestern will have the best player in the floor, and at Minnesota will be a toss up.

There is a much better chance Wisconsin isn't a top 5 seed than they are a top 2 seed.  It sucks that Marquette came out entirely flat and blew that game but even in a bad Big10, I'll be STUNNED if Wisconsin is any better than 14-6 and will finish behind Purdue, Illinois, and most likely Maryland.  MSU has far more talent than them too if they figure it out and build off of that Baylor beat down

[PGsHeroes32]

Even with an 11 pt victory over MU, Wisconsin's +\- against top 20 teams is still -24 in 3 games.  They got comfortably manhandled by Tennessee the entire game and then got absolutely ROCKED by Zona.

They are gonna be road dogs at OSU, Northwestern will have the best player in the floor, and at Minnesota will be a toss up.

There is a much better chance Wisconsin isn't a top 5 seed than they are a top 2 seed.  It sucks that Marquette came out entirely flat and blew that game but even in a bad Big10, I'll be STUNNED if Wisconsin is any better than 14-6 and will finish behind Purdue, Illinois, and most likely Maryland.  MSU has far more talent than them too if they figure it out and build off of that Baylor beat down

You were rolling along until this.

Maryland as top 4 in BIG?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!/!?

[Juan Anderson's Mixtape]

You were rolling along until this.

Maryland as top 4 in BIG?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!/!?

Forget it, he's rolling.

[MarquetteMike1977]

ESPN Bracketology Updated Tuesday December 26th by Joe Lunardi before the Creighton game. Marquette is listed as a 2 Seed playing 15 Seed Weber State in Indianapolis. With the winner playing the winner of 7 Seed Gonzaga and 10 Seed Florida In the West Los Angeles Region

[MarquetteMike1977]

ESPN Bracketology Updated Tuesday January 2nd by Joe Lunardi. Marquette is listed as a 2 Seed playing 15 Seed Colgate in Indianapolis. With the winner playing the winner of 7 Seed Utah and 10 Seed Northwestern In the Midwest Detroit Region

[Uncle Rico]

ESPN Bracketology Updated Tuesday January 2nd by Joe Lunardi. Marquette is listed as a 2 Seed playing 15 Seed Colgate in Indianapolis. With the winner playing the winner of 7 Seed Utah and 10 Seed Northwestern In the Midwest Detroit Region

Hope they don't get Northwestern

[MarquetteMike1977]

ESPN Bracketology Updated Tuesday January 9th by Joe Lunardi. Marquette is listed as a 3 Seed playing 14 Seed High Point in Pittsburgh. With the winner playing the winner of 6 Seed FAU and 11 Seed Northwestern/Mississippi State In the Midwest Detroit Region

[Viper]

Hope they don't get Northwestern

shaka can't beat the BIG

[Newsdreams]

shaka can't beat the BIG

Correct analysis

[MarquetteMike1977]

ESPN Bracketology Updated Friday January 12th  by Joe Lunardi. Marquette is listed as a 4 Seed playing 13 Seed Samford in Pittsburgh. With the winner playing the winner of 5 Seed Oklahoma and 12 Seed McNeese State In the Midwest Detroit Region

[MarquetteMike1977]

ESPN Bracketology Updated Tuesday January 16th by Joe Lunardi. Marquette is listed as a 4 Seed playing 13 Seed UC Irvine in Spokane. With the winner playing the winner of 5 Seed Oklahoma and 12 Seed Saint Mary's In the Midwest Detroit Region

[MarquetteMike1977]

ESPN Bracketology Updated Friday January 19th by Joe Lunardi. Marquette is listed as a 4 Seed playing 13 Seed UC Drexel in Brooklyn. With the winner playing the winner of 5 Seed Oklahoma and 12 Seed Mc Neese St In the Midwest Detroit Region

[Viper]

ESPN Bracketology Updated Friday January 19th by Joe Lunardi. Marquette is listed as a 4 Seed playing 13 Seed UC Drexel in Brooklyn. With the winner playing the winner of 5 Seed Oklahoma and 12 Seed Mc Neese St In the Midwest Detroit Region

imo 5 teams from the BE make the tourney. UConn is a lock. But even if 6 do, 2-6 will be a dogfight. MU, Nova, Prov, SH, StJ, CU, maybe X too. A win over StJ today will be huge!! for many reasons...road win, maintain momentum after the win over Nova. The consensus on Scoop is MU has two nba players in the starting 5, so making the tourney should be doable. But I still feel this season is going the way of UNC last season. (player over projection,  injuries, too many in-game poor coaching decisions to overcome). The Kansas win was money, but wins over UCLA, TX and ND are not earning interest.

[HowardsWorld]

imo 5 teams from the BE make the tourney. UConn is a lock. But even if 6 do, 2-6 will be a dogfight. MU, Nova, Prov, SH, StJ, CU, maybe X too. A win over StJ today will be huge!! for many reasons...road win, maintain momentum after the win over Nova. The consensus on Scoop is MU has two nba players in the starting 5, so making the tourney should be doable. But I still feel this season is going the way of UNC last season. (player over projection,  injuries, too many in-game poor coaching decisions to overcome). The Kansas win was money, but wins over UCLA, TX and ND are not earning interest.

After the couple of loses to the likes of seton hall and butler my mindset switched to Kentucky from 2014. They were top 3 coming into the season and may have even been number 1. They finished the regular season with 10 losses despite being favored to win the championship in the preseason. Getting the 8 seed in the tournament they ended up running through the tournament until they lost to UConn in the championship.

The point of my story is that imo, the big east championship is probably out the window right now at least for the regular season. Even if we get a 6 seed in the big dance I promise you no one is going to be happy with their draw. In fact when great teams underperform and get a lower seed in the tournament it just ends up screwing the teams that actually received good seeds. While I'm completely turned off on the regular season at this point, I have no doubt that come tournament time we will be ready to make at minimum the elite 8

[Viper]

After the couple of loses to the likes of seton hall and butler my mindset switched to Kentucky from 2014. They were top 3 coming into the season and may have even been number 1. They finished the regular season with 10 losses despite being favored to win the championship in the preseason. Getting the 8 seed in the tournament they ended up running through the tournament until they lost to UConn in the championship.

The point of my story is that imo, the big east championship is probably out the window right now at least for the regular season. Even if we get a 6 seed in the big dance I promise you no one is going to be happy with their draw. In fact when great teams underperform and get a lower seed in the tournament it just ends up screwing the teams that actually received good seeds. While I'm completely turned off on the regular season at this point, I have no doubt that come tournament time we will be ready to make at minimum the elite 8

E8 would be incredible. Hoping you are prophetic.

[TallTitan34]

I get we've struggled a bit but a 4 seed? 

Are there really 12 to 15 teams that have a better resume than us?

[MU82]

Not worth worrying about. We've gotten a ton of national respect the last year-plus, including a 2 seed in the '23 NCAAT and high rankings all this season.

Just win all the games we'll be favored to win and we'll be fine; pull an upset of UConn and/or at Creighton, and we'll be better than fine.

[Its DJOver]

I get we've struggled a bit but a 4 seed? 

Are there really 12 to 15 teams that have a better resume than us?

Doubtful.  Right now we're the top 4 on bracketmatrix.  The 3's are Baylor, Duke, Auburn and Kentucky. Auburn doesn't have a Q1 win and their metrics are good based off blow outs in their 11 Q3+Q4 games. Baylor doesn't have the Q2 loss that we do, but are one short of our Q1A and Q1 win totals (I could maybe  buy them because on paper their Q1A wins are better than ours, but I still expect BYU to fall, potentially out of Q1A range). Kentucky has fewer Q1 wins and a Q3 loss compared to our Q2. And Duke has fewer Q1 wins plus 3 Q2 losses to our 1. As brackets get updated post Duke loss to Pitt, Baylor loss to Texas, and MU win @ StJ, we should decisively be a 3. If App St can drop 2 spots to move one of Auburns Q1 losses to Q2, that would help as well.

[SaveOD238]

I get we've struggled a bit but a 4 seed? 

Are there really 12 to 15 teams that have a better resume than us?

Top of the line resume, no.  Our @ Illinois win is one of the best wins on the season by any team, resume wise.

But we have 5 losses already, which is something only one other top 25 team (Creighton) can claim right now.

[Its DJOver]

Top of the line resume, no.  Our @ Illinois win is one of the best wins on the season by any team, resume wise.

But we have 5 losses already, which is something only one other top 25 team (Creighton) can claim right now.

The Q1 losses don't make that much of an impact (although the margin in the PC game does not exactly help).  It's the Butler loss that is dragging us down right now.  We really want them to stay Q2.

[MarquetteMike1977]

ESPN Bracketology Updated Tuesday January 24th by Joe Lunardi. Marquette is listed as a 3 Seed playing 14 Seed Morehead St in Pittsburgh. With the winner playing the winner of 6 Seed Colorado St and 11 Seed Kansas St/ Ole Miss Winner In the South Dallas Region

[JamilJaeJamailJrJuan]

The Q1 losses don't make that much of an impact (although the margin in the PC game does not exactly help).  It's the Butler loss that is dragging us down right now.  We really want them to stay Q2.

Ehhh.  3 seed.  2 seed.  5 seed.  Its all basically the same and match up based.  Of course I'd prefer the higher seed as opposed to the lower for the easier first round game, but being a 2 seed last year didn't do us any favors past that. 

If Butler ends up a Q3 loss, the boys will be alright.   

[PGsHeroes32]

Beat Morehead State

Pray Ole Miss pulls two outta their ass.

Sweet 16.

To be fair I like our odds vs the other 2 as well. But Ole Miss would be a dream(assuming they even make it).

Kolek vs Stevens would be one of those fun hypotheticals.

[Galway Eagle]

Ehhh.  3 seed.  2 seed.  5 seed.  Its all basically the same and match up based.  Of course I'd prefer the higher seed as opposed to the lower for the easier first round game, but being a 2 seed last year didn't do us any favors past that. 

If Butler ends up a Q3 loss, the boys will be alright.   

I think 5 is vastly different than the 4 options above it. There's pretty much a guaranteed 5/upset every year. A couple years back didn't 3/4 5s lose in the first round?

[BrewCity83]

I seem to remember that the 1st round 5/12 games are historically 50/50 either way.