Bracketology Update 1/29/20

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

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

Last 4 Byes: Stanford, VCU, Texas Tech, Florida
Last 4 In: Purdue, Arizona St., Georgetown, Rhode Island
First 4 Out: Xavier, Mississippi St., Richmond, Memphis
Next 4 Out: Virginia, Syracuse, Saint Louis, Utah St.

Bracket Thoughts:
It’s been a rough few days for the ACC as a whole. bubble teams Syracuse, Virginia Tech, and N.C. State have all lost games, leaving all three out of the current bracket. Without many opportunities for strong, resume building wins, teams will have to follow Virginia’s lead and beat one of the top 3 teams in the league.

I’m not confident in several of the teams at the bottom of the at large pool, as Texas Tech and Florida have only a single Q1 win each, Purdue is only 11-10 overall, etc. There just haven’t been 36 at large teams that have separated themselves at this point. All I can hope for is that several teams “play their way in” rather than seeing teams back into the tournament by default.