Sunday, March 16, 2008

Today is Selection Sunday

There is still a chance some of this could change....based on the SEC and Big Ten finals. And how can you root against Georgia right now. But here is the field as I expect it.

Automatic Bids
American (Patriot League)
Austin Peay (Ohio Valley)
Belmont (Atlantic Sun)
Boise State (WAC)
Butler (Horizon League)
Cal State Fullerton (Big West)
Coppin State (MEAC)
Cornell (Ivy League)
Davidson (Southern Conference)
Drake (Missouri Valley)
George Mason (CAA)
Kent State (MAC)
Memphis (Conference USA)
Mississippi Valley State (SWAC)
Mount St. Mary's (Northeast)
Oral Roberts (Summit League)
Pittsburgh (Big East)
Portland State (Big Sky)
San Diego (West Coast)
Siena (MAAC)
Temple (Atlantic 10)
UCLA (Pac-10)
UMBC (America East)
UNLV (Mountain West)
Western Kentucky (Sun Belt)
Winthrop (Big South)
Still to be determined as far as Automatic Bids - and my projection
Northwestern State (Southland)
North Carolina (ACC)
Kansas (Big 12)
Arkansas (SEC)
Wisconsin (Big 10)

And with that said, I probably wouldn't be surprised to see either Illinois or Georgia win today.

Then here are the remaining At-Large picks that I think the committee will make...

Duke
Texas
Georgetown
Tennessee
Louisville
Xavier
Stanford
Michigan State
Marquette
Washington State
Connecticut
Indiana
Clemson
Notre Dame
Vanderbilt
Gonzaga
USC
Purdue
Kansas State
Texas A&M
West Virginia
St. Mary's
Arizona
BYU
Illinois State
Mississippi State
Oklahoma
Baylor
Miami (FL)
Ohio State
St. Joe's
Villanova
South Alabama
Oregon

My last two teams out were Kentucky and Virginia Commonwealth. If I were picking I would have VCU in instead of Oregon, but I don't think that is going to happen. And there is certainly a good possibility that Kentucky gets included. But I just can't see it with a 6-7 non-conference record and a +60 RPI.

But those are my teams.

I think the Mount is going to get either a trip to Raleigh to play North Carolina or to Little Rock to play Memphis. I think they avoid the play-in game, with the results from the MEAC and SWAC championships already in. But we may not have to wait much longer. The NCAA is set to announce the play-in game participants at 2pm on CBS.

I'll be back with those results soon.

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