Friday, March 13, 2020

Final SEED LIST

This officially goes unchanged after one final seed scrub from me.

Weird :  Stanford dropped out with a loss in a tournament that ended up cancelled.  Makes you wonder, in a hypothetical world where the NCAA tournament was back on, if those conference tournaments would actually count.  I could actually see the NCAA throwing out all conference tourney results for all teams, inviting all regular season champions and proceeding.  If the NCAA does end up releasing a seed list, I'd like to see them go that route.

In that scenario, I'd change:
- SDSU gets their 1 seed back, Dayton back to a 2
- Utah St drops out of the field, replaced by UCLA (the SDSU win served as rocket fuel for its resume)
- UNI probably leaps a seed line or so.  UNI getting the autobid back actually bumps Stanford back in the field as a result.
- St Mary's probably loses a seed line to Houston by having their BYU win erased
- the obvious changes at the bottom with the likes of Winthrop, Boston U, etc replaced
- Colorado gets a seed back (PSU drops one amid their horrid non-con SoS)

As is, the previous seed list gets frozen in place.

The 1 line:  Kansas, Baylor, Gonzaga, Dayton
The 2 line:  San Diego St, Villanova, Florida St, Duke
The 3 line:  Creighton, Seton Hall, Kentucky, Michigan St
The 4 line:  Maryland, Oregon, Louisville, Wisconsin
The 5 line:  Butler, West Virginia, Ohio St, Auburn
The 6 line:  Michigan, BYU, Iowa, Penn St
The 7 line:  Virginia, Colorado, Illinois, St Mary's
The 8 line:  Houston, Providence, LSU, USC
The 9 line:  Arizona, Florida, Marquette, Oklahoma
The 10 line:  East Tennessee St, Arizona St, Utah St, Rutgers
The 11 line:  Texas Tech, Indiana, Richmond, North Carolina St, Northern Iowa, Wichita St
The 12 line:  Cincinnati, Stephen F Austin, Yale, Vermont
The 13 line:  Liberty, Akron, New Mexico St, North Texas
The 14 line:  Belmont, Bradley, Hofstra, UC-Irvine
The 15 line:  Winthrop, Eastern Washington, North Dakota St, Arkansas-Little Rock
The 16 line:  Boston U, Northern Kentucky, Siena, Robert Morris, Prairie View A&M, North Carolina Central

Last 4 in:
Richmond
North Carolina St
Northern Iowa
Wichita St

Last 4 out:
UCLA
*Cincinnati
Stanford
Xavier
Purdue

Next 4 out:
Mississippi St
*Stephen F Austin
Texas
Memphis
Arkansas

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