Projecting the 2006 NCAA Basketball Tournament Field…
Most of the bracket predictions out there are pretty lame. Most have Boston College and KU as 6-7 seeds, which, in my opinion, is bad, bad math. The tournament is less than a month away now, and I think it’s time to start making actual predictions about what seed teams will end up with. This seems to me to be a better use of time than “if the season ended today” predictions. The season doesn’t end today. This is a predictive bracket. I encourage your feedback. I admit I’m mailing it in for the 13-16 seeds.
The First Phog Blog Bracket (2/20/06):
1 Seeds:
Duke, UConn, Villanova, Memphis
2 Seeds:
Gonzaga, Pittsburgh, Texas (-), Ohio State
3 Seeds:
Boston College, Florida, Tennessee, Iowa
4 Seeds:
Kansas, Illinois, West Virginia, GW
5 Seeds
UCLA, North Carolina State, Michigan State, Georgetown
6 Seeds
LSU, Oklahoma, UNC, George Mason
7 Seeds
Northern Iowa, Wisconsin, Bucknell, Washington
8 Seeds
Cal, Nevada, Marquette, Alabama
9 Seeds
Creighton, So. Illinois, Seton Hall, Wichita St
10 Seeds
Arizona, Kentucky, Arkansas, Missouri State
11 Seeds
UAB, Air Force, Syracuse, Colorado
12 Seeds
W. Kentucky, San Diego State, UW-Milwaukee, NC-Wilmington
13 Seeds
Northwestern State, Montana, Akron, Iona
14 Seeds
Winthrop, Murray State, Penn, Pacific
15 Seeds
FDU, Belmont, IUPUI, Northern Arizona
16 Seeds
Georgia Southern, Albany, Delaware State, Play-in
I’ve got a feeling this thing has more holes in it than a horse-trader’s mule, or will have come Selection Sunday, but hey, there’s only so much you can do.