Bracketology Update 1/25/20

1	Kansas	Baylor	Seton Hall	San Diego St.
2	Gonzaga	Butler	West Virginia	Duke
3	Dayton	Florida St.	Louisville	Oregon
4	Maryland	Michigan St.	Villanova	Iowa
5	Penn St.	Creighton	Auburn	Colorado
6	Ohio St.	LSU	Indiana	Marquette
7	Houston	Wisconsin	Michigan	Wichita St.
8	Rutgers	Stanford	Kentucky	Illinois
9	BYU	USC	Oklahoma	Minnesota
10	Virginia Tech	Arizona	Arkansas	Florida
11	N.C. State	Texas Tech	Saint Mary’s/Purdue	Memphis/Tennessee
12	East Tennessee St.	Northern Iowa	Liberty	Yale
13	Akron	Stephen F. Austin	North Texas	Vermont
14	Colgate	Oral Roberts	Wright St.	New Mexico St.
15	Georgia St.	Montana	Murray St.	Winthrop
16	Charleston	Monmouth	St. Francis PA/UC Irvine	Prairie View A&M/Norfolk St.

Number 1 Seeds: Kansas, Baylor, Seton Hall, San Diego St.
Lurking: Gonzaga, Butler, West Virginia Duke

Last 4 Byes: Arkansas, Florida, N.C. State, Texas Tech
Last 4 In: Saint Mary’s, Purdue, Memphis, Tennessee
First 4 Out: VCU, Georgetown, Xavier, Richmond
Next 4 Out: DePaul, Rhode Island, Texas, Saint Louis


Multi Bid Conferences:
B1G (12)
SEC (6)
BE (5)
B12 (5)
P12 (5)
ACC (5)
AAC (3)
WCC (3)

Bracket Thoughts:
As suggested previously, the B1G is likely to be a logjam in the high/middle seeds (3-8). With recent updates, I now have no B1G teams on the top 3 seed lines as they continue to beat each other up, but we are back to having 12 B1G teams in the bracket due to good wins by Minnesota and Purdue. I’ve got the top 10 B1G teams on lines 4-8, which shows how important road wins in the league will be in determining seeding order.

If Minnesota and/or Purdue do struggle down the stretch, the BE and A10 have several teams lurking, as they make up 7 of the next 8 teams on my S-curve. This is going to make for some high stakes games down the stretch as these teams jockey for positioning to climb into the bracket in advance of Selection Sunday.