Monday, March 05, 2007

2007 NCAA Tournament Projections-Monday edition


Here is today's edition of bracket projections for the upcoming NCAA men's basketball tournament. The real brackets will be presented next Sunday at 5 PM CDT on CBS. Click on the image for more detail.

Last four in: Drexel, Old Dominion, Missouri State, Kansas State
Last four out: UMass, Illinois, Ole Miss, Florida State

Three more automatic bids will be determined tonight:

Colonial: George Mason vs. VCU. George Mason lost the bulk of last year's Final Four team, and struggled through a 15-14 regular season. The Patriots have rolled off three wins in the Colonial post-season tournament, and can make an improbable return to the NCAA tournament with a win over regular-season champion VCU.
MAAC: Niagara vs. Siena. Both teams finished in a tie for 2nd place in the regular season. Siena knocked off regular season champion Marist in yesterday's semifinals.
WCC: Gonzaga vs. Santa Clara. The 1st and 2nd place teams in the regular season meet for the automatic bid. The Zags need to go ahead and win here, as they may not merit an at-large bid, in spite of their brutal non-conference schedule.

The NIT got two more automatic qualifiers yesterday. Sun Belt regular season champion South Alabama was upset in the quarterfinals of their conference tournament by Middle Tennessee State. Also, the MAAC regular season champ Marist Red Foxes lost to Siena.

It's the most wonderful time of the year....

8 comments:

Zee said...

I don't see the University of Toledo anywhere on there!

John said...

They've got to win the MAC tournament. They won the regular season by a game due to the unbalanced schedule, but Akron has a better overall record and a higher computer ranking.

Somebody like Kent State will probably come out of nowhere and win that tournament, though.

John said...

Or, maybe the Ohio Bobcats!

Zee said...

Don't count the Rockets out!

John said...

No, you can't count the Rockets out. They are the regular season champions.

Eastern Meatchicken, Central Meatchicken, and Western Meatchicken have a chance, also. Actually, I don't know if they do or not. It'll probably be Ball State. :-)

The MAC tournament moves to CLE this weekend.

Zee said...

CLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Speaking of ... I saw the Cav's jersey at the local Wal-Mart. Not ugly, but nothing exciting either. Did I mention that I'm in Toledo for two weeks?

Go Rockets!!!!!!!!!!!!!

John said...

A two-week spring break? Wow! Keller had that until this year, when they went to one. We have the normal one week spring break here.

The new Cavs uniform isn't great, but it isn't bad, either. They've got to give LeBron something he'll like.

Zee said...

No, it's not spring break until Saturday. I took an extra week off to pack Mom up and move her down to Tejas. She can't wait after the high of 19 they had here today!