NCAA Bracket Prediction - 7 Feb

After a busy weekend, there was quite a bit of movement in my latest bracket, with Houston taking the final 1-seed away from Arizona, and Northwestern and Texas A&M jumping in to the last 4 in, knocking out Florida and Clemson. There were also several changes in projected conference champs, which brought in 4 new teams in the lower reaches of the bracket. Here is my full current projection, with rising teams in green, falling teams in red, new teams in italics, and projected conference champs in bold:

	EAST			MIDWEST
1	Purdue		1	Kansas
16	Southern/Fairleigh Dickinson		16	Maryland-ES/Morehead State
8	Arkansas		8	Providence
9	Boise State		9	Nevada
5	Miami		5	Indiana
12	Kent State		12	VCU
4	Kansas State		4	Saint Mary’s
13	Liberty		13	Southern Miss
6	Creighton		6	Rutgers
11	Missouri		11	North Carolina/Memphis
3	Baylor		3	Xavier
14	Princeton		14	UC Irvine
7	Iowa		7	West Virginia
10	Oklahoma State		10	Michigan State
2	Tennessee		2	UCLA
15	Eastern Washington		15	Youngstown State
	WEST			SOUTH
1	Houston		1	Alabama
16	Radford		16	Northwestern State
8	Duke		8	FAU
9	Kentucky		9	New Mexico
5	Gonzaga		5	TCU
12	Oral Roberts		12	Charleston
4	UConn		4	Virginia
13	Bradley		13	Utah Valley
6	Illinois		6	San Diego State
11	Utah State		11	Northwestern/Texas A&M
3	Iowa State		3	Marquette
14	Iona		14	Furman
7	Auburn		7	Maryland
10	NC State		10	USC
2	Arizona		2	Texas
15	Vermont		15	Colgate

Last Four Byes

Oklahoma State

Michigan State

Utah State

Missouri

Last Four In

North Carolina

Northwestern

Memphis

Texas A&M

First Four Out

Florida

Pittsburgh

Mississippi State

Virginia Tech

Next Four Out

Seton Hall

Clemson

Oregon

Oklahoma

Teams by Conference

Big 12 - 8

Big 10 - 8

SEC - 7

ACC - 5

Big East - 5

MWC - 5

Pac 12 - 3

AAC - 2

WCC - 2