Tuesday, February 05, 2008

2008 NCAA Tournament Projections, Volume 1


(click bracket graphic for closer view)

Just another post while pondering the departure of Bob Knight from Texas Tech. The great Pat Forde opines here that this is a good thing for college basketball. I agree with Pat.

Here is the first of a weekly set of projections for this year's NCAA tournament. There are not a lot of upsets. At this point, the four #1 seeds are predicted to make the Final Four: Memphis, Duke, North Carolina, and Kansas. This blog projects North Carolina to beat Memphis in the final. Memphis would cruise into the final with an undefeated record.

The biggest question marks in this bracket come from the Atlantic 10. Dayton and Massachusetts make this field in spite of losing conference records to this point, thanks to high RPI ratings. Houston and Mississippi State are the last teams left out. They can and probably will play themselves into the tournament.

These projections are always in a state of flux. Some teams will get hot, other teams will get cold. February will be fun.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

it is WAY too early to predict this thing, imho. why did bobby quit? not getting enough national attention @ Tech?

John said...

As I mentioned, the bracket is always in a state of flux, especially halfway through the conference season.

I've heard through the grapevine that Knight is having health problems, but he denies it. If there is not a health issue, he needs to stick it out to the rest of the season. Oh, well. Good riddance.

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