STF Bracket Quest: 2/3/10

 

Will your team make the dance? Are they going to be on, in or under the bubble?

 

How the hell should we know?

 

But we like to guess as much as anybody else. And we like to bet on the outcomes. Last year, it was an Eric vs. Marco bracket challenge in the traditional mold. This year, it's going to be us against the vast, cold, overwhelming uncertainty of the universe. We're going to go up against Andy Glockner and Joe Lunardi in attempting to answer that immortal question: who's in and who's out?

 

We'll make out a bracket every wednesday up to the week of Selection Sunday (which is really going to suck if the tourney expands to 96 teams, by the way). By that final bracket, we will attempt to have 64 out of 65 teams correctly named and seeded, and you can heckle from the sidelines if we fail or bask in the awesomeness should we succeed.

 

The toughest thing this year has been trying to figure out the Big Ten. So keep an eye on that - it could go pear-shaped in a hurry. Power mids like the Mountain West and Atlantic 10 are looking at a windfall from the weakness at the top, which is kind of cool - they're fun leagues to watch, and can pull some upsets in March.

 

Here's this week's best guess:

 

 1   Villanova

16  Lehigh

 8  Cornell

 9  Texas A&M

 5  Butler

12 Utah State

 4  Vanderbilt

13  Cincinnati

 6  Wake Forest

11 Richmond

 3  Michigan State

14 George Mason

 7  Rhode Island

10 UNLV

 2   Kansas State

15  Morgan State

 

Louisville  
14-8 - RPI: 43  Top 50 Wins: 2   Below 100 Losses:0  Average RPI Win - 138  Average RPI Loss - 31

Richmond
16-6 - RPI: 38  Top 50 Wins: 2   Below 100 Losses:1  Average RPI Win - 161  Average RPI Loss - 61

UConn
13-9  - RPI: 48  Top 50 Wins: 1   Below 100 Losses: 1  Average RPI Win - 123  Average RPI Loss - 46

Florida
15-6 - RPI: 52  Top 50 Wins: 2   Below 100 Losses: 1  Average RPI Win - 174  Average RPI Loss - 50

Cincinnati
14-7 - RPI: 47  Top 50 Wins: 2   Below 100 Losses:0  Average RPI Win - 152  Average RPI Loss - 49

William & Mary
15-6 - RPI: 51 Top 50 Wins: 3   Below 100 Losses:2  Average RPI Win - 144  Average RPI Loss - 112

Mississippi State
16-5 - RPI: 64  Top 50 Wins: 2   Below 100 Losses: 3  Average RPI Win - 174  Average RPI Loss - 108

Northwestern
15-7 - RPI: 63  Top 50 Wins: 1   Below 100 Losses:0  Average RPI Win - 182  Average RPI Loss - 32

Tulsa
17-4 - RPI: 64  Top 50 Wins: 1   Below 100 Losses:1  Average RPI Win - 190 Average RPI Loss - 76

Minnesota
13-8 - RPI: 57  Top 50 Wins: 2   Below 100 Losses:1  Average RPI Win - 174 Average RPI Loss - 62

 

All info and help comes from BB State

RPI used for all tiebreakers in auto-bids

All quoted RPIs are from Tuesday