SelectionSunday
Well-known member
- Joined
- Nov 12, 2008
- Messages
- 24,800
- Reaction score
- 5,069
- Points
- 113
TINLEY PARK, IL -- We’re now only two weeks from Selection Sunday. Here’s how I see the Field of 68 looking as Championship Week gets underway Monday in the Northeast Conference.
We have 5 new teams in the field this week: Bryant; Michigan (at-large); Northern Iowa; SMU (at-large); and Texas Southern. They replace Belmont (at-large), Dayton (at-large), Rutgers (at-large), Southern, and Wagner.
*Automatic qualifiers from multiple-bid conferences are noted with an *. Auto qualifiers own the best conference record or are the highest remaining seed in their conference tournament.
FIELD OF 68 PROJECTION (through Feb. 27)
America East (1): Vermont (63)
American (2): *Houston (3), SMU (47)
ACC (5): *Duke (9), North Carolina (40), Wake Forest (43), Notre Dame (46), Miami (62)
ASUN (1): Jacksonville State (138)
Atlantic 10 (1): Davidson (45)
Big East (7): Villanova (7), UConn (17), *Providence (25), Seton Hall (32), Marquette (34), Xavier (36), Creighton (67)
Big Sky (1): Montana State (134)
Big South (1): Longwood (142)
Big Ten (7): Purdue (12), Illinois (14), Iowa (18), Ohio State (20), *Wisconsin (21), Michigan State (33), Michigan (37)
Big XII (6): Baylor (5), *Kansas (6), Texas Tech (10), Texas (15), Iowa State (35), TCU (49)
Big West (1): Long Beach (152)
Colonial (1): UNC-Wilmington (188)
Conference USA (1): North Texas (38)
Horizon (1): Cleveland (175)
Ivy (1): Princeton (108)
MAAC (1): Iona (76)
MAC (1): Toledo (78)
MEAC (1): Norfolk (183)
Missouri Valley (2): Loyola (31), *Northern Iowa (97)
Mountain West (4): Colorado State (27), *Boise (29), San Diego State (30), Wyoming (39)
NEC (1): Bryant (218)
OVC (1): Murray (24)
Pac 12 (3): *Arizona (2), UCLA (13), USC (26)
Patriot (1): Colgate (137)
SEC (6): Kentucky (4), Tennessee (8), *Auburn (11), LSU (16), Alabama (22), Arkansas (23)
SoCon (1): Chattanooga (70)
Southland (1): New Orleans (254)
SWAC (1): Texas Southern (203)
Summit (1): South Dakota State (71)
Sun Belt (1): Texas State (118)
WCC (4): *Gonzaga (1), Saint Mary’s (19), San Francisco (28), BYU (50)
WAC (1): New Mexico State (86)
__________________________________
Last 4 In: BYU, Xavier, San Diego State, Michigan (last team in)
First 4 Out: Memphis (42; first team out), Oregon (58), Florida (51), VCU (53)
8 to Watch: Virginia Tech (41), Indiana (44), Oklahoma (48), UAB (54), Dayton (55), Belmont (60), Saint Bonaventure (79), Rutgers (83)
Non-Power 6 At-Large Bids (8): BYU, Colorado State, Loyola-Chicago, Saint Mary’s, San Diego State, San Francisco, SMU, Wyoming
We have 5 new teams in the field this week: Bryant; Michigan (at-large); Northern Iowa; SMU (at-large); and Texas Southern. They replace Belmont (at-large), Dayton (at-large), Rutgers (at-large), Southern, and Wagner.
*Automatic qualifiers from multiple-bid conferences are noted with an *. Auto qualifiers own the best conference record or are the highest remaining seed in their conference tournament.
FIELD OF 68 PROJECTION (through Feb. 27)
America East (1): Vermont (63)
American (2): *Houston (3), SMU (47)
ACC (5): *Duke (9), North Carolina (40), Wake Forest (43), Notre Dame (46), Miami (62)
ASUN (1): Jacksonville State (138)
Atlantic 10 (1): Davidson (45)
Big East (7): Villanova (7), UConn (17), *Providence (25), Seton Hall (32), Marquette (34), Xavier (36), Creighton (67)
Big Sky (1): Montana State (134)
Big South (1): Longwood (142)
Big Ten (7): Purdue (12), Illinois (14), Iowa (18), Ohio State (20), *Wisconsin (21), Michigan State (33), Michigan (37)
Big XII (6): Baylor (5), *Kansas (6), Texas Tech (10), Texas (15), Iowa State (35), TCU (49)
Big West (1): Long Beach (152)
Colonial (1): UNC-Wilmington (188)
Conference USA (1): North Texas (38)
Horizon (1): Cleveland (175)
Ivy (1): Princeton (108)
MAAC (1): Iona (76)
MAC (1): Toledo (78)
MEAC (1): Norfolk (183)
Missouri Valley (2): Loyola (31), *Northern Iowa (97)
Mountain West (4): Colorado State (27), *Boise (29), San Diego State (30), Wyoming (39)
NEC (1): Bryant (218)
OVC (1): Murray (24)
Pac 12 (3): *Arizona (2), UCLA (13), USC (26)
Patriot (1): Colgate (137)
SEC (6): Kentucky (4), Tennessee (8), *Auburn (11), LSU (16), Alabama (22), Arkansas (23)
SoCon (1): Chattanooga (70)
Southland (1): New Orleans (254)
SWAC (1): Texas Southern (203)
Summit (1): South Dakota State (71)
Sun Belt (1): Texas State (118)
WCC (4): *Gonzaga (1), Saint Mary’s (19), San Francisco (28), BYU (50)
WAC (1): New Mexico State (86)
__________________________________
Last 4 In: BYU, Xavier, San Diego State, Michigan (last team in)
First 4 Out: Memphis (42; first team out), Oregon (58), Florida (51), VCU (53)
8 to Watch: Virginia Tech (41), Indiana (44), Oklahoma (48), UAB (54), Dayton (55), Belmont (60), Saint Bonaventure (79), Rutgers (83)
Non-Power 6 At-Large Bids (8): BYU, Colorado State, Loyola-Chicago, Saint Mary’s, San Diego State, San Francisco, SMU, Wyoming