NCAA Bracket Prediction - 10 Mar

The official bracket will be released tomorrow, so there are fewer than 30 games remaining to determine the final spots in the bracket. In the past couple of days there have been a couple of bid thieves, with Middle Tennessee and Nevada losing in conference tournaments, allowing teams that would not have made it otherwise to take the automatic berths that come with conference titles. Nevada will be in anyway, but Middle Tennessee is not guaranteed a spot, though I still have them just barely in as of this morning. Here is my full current bracket, with projected conference champs in bold, new teams in italics, rising teams in green, and falling teams in red:

	EAST			SOUTH
1	Villanova		1	Virginia
16	SE Louisiana/Hampton		16	LIU Brooklyn/Ark-Pine Bluff
8	Texas A&M		8	Creighton
9	Virginia Tech		9	Saint Mary’s
5	Clemson		5	Ohio State
12	Murray State		12	Louisiana
4	West Virginia		4	Texas Tech
13	Buffalo		13	South Dakota State
6	Nevada		6	Florida
11	Oklahoma		11	NC State/USC
3	Tennessee		3	Michigan State
14	Wright State		14	New Mexico
7	Miami		7	Seton Hall
10	Texas		10	Loyola-Chicago
2	Purdue		2	Kansas
15	Iona		15	Lipscomb
	WEST			MIDWEST
1	Duke		1	Xavier
16	UMBC		16	Radford
8	Butler		8	St. Bonaventure
9	Baylor		9	Louisville
5	Houston		5	Kentucky
12	Western Kentucky		12	New Mexico State
4	Auburn		4	Wichita State
13	UNC Greensboro		13	Bucknell
6	TCU		6	Arizona
11	Providence		11	Missouri/Middle Tennessee
3	Michigan		3	Gonzaga
14	Montana		14	Charleston
7	Arkansas		7	Rhode Island
10	Florida State		10	Kansas State
2	Cincinnati		2	North Carolina
15	UC Irvine		15	Harvard

Last Four Byes

Florida State
Texas
Oklahoma
Baylor

Last Four In

USC
Missouri
Middle Tennessee
NC State

First Four Out

Notre Dame
Penn State
UCLA
Syracuse

Next Four Out

Alabama
Marquette
Nebraska
Arizona State

Teams By Conference

ACC - 9
Big 12 - 8
SEC - 7
Big East - 6
Big 10 - 4
American - 3
Atlantic 10 - 2
Conference USA - 2
Mountain West - 2
Pac 12 - 2
West Coast - 2