Thursday, February 6, 2014

Bracket Brief for February 6, 2014

Seed East (1)
NYC (Fr/Su)
Midwest (4)
Indy (Fr/Su)
South (2)
Memphis (Th/Sa)
West (3)
Anaheim (Th/Sa)
Site
1
16
8
9
Buffalo (Th/Sa)
Syracuse
Davidson
Memphis
Tennessee
Orlando (Th/Sa)
Florida
NC Central
Geo. Wash.
Stanford
St. Louis (Fr/Su)
Wichita State
Southern/VMI
Oklahoma
Arizona State
San Diego (Fr/Su)
Arizona
R. Mor./Weber St.
New Mexico
Harvard
Site
5
12
4
13
San Diego (Fr/Su)
Saint Louis
Oregon
Ohio State
New Mexico State
Orlando (Th/Sa)
Virginia
Xavier
Michigan
Stephen F. Austin
Spokane (Th/Sa)
Pittsburgh
Toledo
Wisconsin
North Dakota State
San Antonio (Fr/Su)
Iowa
Kansas State
Kentucky
Green Bay
Site
3
14
6
11
San Antonio (Fr/Su)
Iowa State
Mercer
UCLA
Missouri
Milwaukee (Th/Sa)
Creighton
Georgia State
Oklahoma State
Colorado/LSU
Raleigh (Fr/Su)
Cincinnati
Delaware
VCU
Florida State
Milwaukee (Th/Sa)
Michigan State
UC Santa Barbara
Louisville
BYU/California
Site
7
10
2
15
Buffalo (Th/Sa)
Massachusetts
SMU
Villanova
Iona
Raleigh (Fr/Su)
Connecticut
Southern Miss
Duke
Belmont
St. Louis (Fr/Su)
Gonzaga
Minnesota
Kansas
Vermont
Spokane (Th/Sa)
Texas
North Carolina
San Diego State
American

Note: Through games of February 6, 2014. Teams in italics below represent automatic bids. The rankings at the top of each column are based on the overall seeds of the top four teams, so the winner of the regional with the team seeded #1 overall would meet the winner of the regional with the team seeded #4 overall.

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Lots of Bubble Teams Are Losing; Bad Nights for Oklahoma, Tennessee, Minnesota, and California

Wednesday night was the night for bubble teams to start losing games, giving hope to squads all over the country. Oklahoma, Tennessee, Minnesota, and California, all on the lower half of teams making it as at-larges in the last Bracket Brief, inching them closer to the "out" spots to make room for "ins". A bracketology look at those games and more ahead.

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Ohio State Climbing Back Up the Bracket, While Providence Falls Out

Nothing on Tuesday night lived up to Monday's thriller between Iowa State and Oklahoma State, but there was still a lot of important action. The two biggest games affecting the bracket occurred in the Big conferences, as Ohio State showed for the second game in a row that it is not yet dead, winning at Iowa. And Providence, a bubble team if ever there was one, dropped a very important home game to St. John's. Let's look at all of Tuesday's action from a bracketology perspective.

Monday, February 3, 2014

Iowa State and Oklahoma State Jockey for Big 12 and Bracket Positions

With a small slate of games and no major upsets, Monday ended up being very quiet. But we still had one very good game out of the Big 12.

Bracket Brief for February 3, 2014

Seed East (1)
NYC (Fr/Su)
Midwest (4)
Indy (Fr/Su)
West (2)
Anaheim (Th/Sa)
South (3)
Memphis (Th/Sa)
Site
1
16
8
9
Buffalo (Th/Sa)
Syracuse
Southern/VMI
Connecticut
Geo. Wash.
St. Louis (Fr/Su)
Wichita State
North Carolina Central
Arizona State
Tennessee
San Diego (Fr/Su)
Arizona
R. Morris/Weber St.
Memphis
New Mexico
Orlando (Th/Sa)
Florida
Davidson
Harvard
Southern Miss
Site
5
12
4
13
Spokane (Th/Sa)
UCLA
Toledo
Kentucky
Green Bay
San Antonio (Fr/Su)
Pittsburgh
Kansas State
Michigan
North Dakota State
San Diego (Fr/Su)
Saint Louis
Mizzou/Prov.
Virginia
Mercer
San Antonio (Fr/Su)
Wisconsin
Stanford
Iowa State
Stephen F. Austin
Site
3
14
6
11
Milwaukee (Th/Sa)
Michigan State
Georgia State
Louisville
North Carolina
Milwaukee (Th/Sa)
Creighton
UC Santa Barbara
Ohio State
Oregon
Orlando (Th/Sa)
Cincinnati
New Mexico State
Texas
Minnesota
Raleigh (Th/Sa)
Iowa
Delaware
Oklahoma State
Colorado/LSU
Site
7
10
2
15
Buffalo (Th/Sa)
Oklahoma
California
Villanova
Iona
St. Louis (Fr/Su)
VCU
Florida State
Kansas
Belmont
Spokane (Fr/Su)
Gonzaga
Xavier
San Diego State
Vermont
Raleigh (Th/Sa)
Massachusetts
SMU
Duke
American

Note: Through games of February 2, 2014. Teams in italics below represent automatic bids. The rankings at the top of each column are based on the overall seeds of the top four teams, so the winner of the regional with the team seeded #1 overall would meet the winner of the regional with the team seeded #4 overall.

Sunday, February 2, 2014

College Basketball Doesn't Stop on Super Sunday

Sure, Sunday was Super Sunday, but college basketball did not take the day off, filling up the time in between. Three games from Sunday might have a major effect on the bracket.

And Then There Were Two: Arizona Falls to California

Holy cow. Now that's a college basketball Saturday. We began with a crazy game between slumping Big Ten powers Ohio State and Wisconsin and ended up with the #1 team in the nation, Arizona, finally dropping a game, this one at Cal. We'll look at those games and everything in between, from a bracketology angle.