801 Bracketology

🏀BRACKETOLOGY UPDATE🏀

St. John's up to a 5 seed after last night and Illinois temporarily replaces UConn on the 1 seed line.

Big Saturday incoming! Who's going to move up/down?

🏀BRACKETOLOGY UPDATE🏀

What a week, many changes with some huge upsets!

Last 4 IN: Cal, Miami, New Mexico, San Diego State
First 4 OUT: Virginia Tech, Oklahoma State, Ohio State, Texas
Next 4 OUT: Missouri, VCU, Seton Hall, TCU

I think we’re saying the same thing

Mountain West seems doomed to 2 bids unless somebody streaks to win the conference tournament and steal one

Yessir! Both very nice wins!

Biggest Losers:
- Dayton (blowout L @ GW)
- BYU (30-pt L @ Houston)
- SMU (27-pt L vs. Duke)
- Oklahoma (28-pt L @ Alabama)
- Baylor (not competitive @ Iowa State)
- The Mountain West (inching towards no chance of 3+ bids)

- San Diego State (resume boosting W @ Boise State)
- Vanderbilt (W @ LSU, 13-1 now)
- Alabama (blowout W over Oklahoma)
- Arizona State (blowout W over Colorado)
- Texas A&M (W vs. Texas, inching towards 2-3 seed)
- UC San Diego (40-pt W vs. Fullerton)
- Texas Tech (30-pt W @ Utah, 1st big win)

The first conference play Saturday is one of the best days of the whole year!

Biggest Winners:
- Kentucky (W vs. Florida)
- Houston (30-pt W vs. BYU)
- Tennessee (last undefeated)
- Iowa State (blowout of Baylor)
- Hail State (blowout of SC)
- Arizona (first big W of the year vs. Cincy)

Bubble Watch - January 4th

- 3 more SEC teams close to the cutline (15 total in contention for seeds)
- 4 Big 12 teams sagging below the cutline with poor non-conference performances
- GEORGETOWN back in contention, shouts to Ed Cooley
- Mountain West in danger of only getting 2 bids this year

🏀🚨 Bracketology Update 🚨🏀

For the hoops addicts, here's our first bracketology of 2025!

Notes: 12-bid SEC👀, 10-bid Big 10, 8-bid Big 12

First 4 OUT: Saint Mary's, Missouri, Iowa, Vanderbilt
Next 4 OUT: Penn State, Creighton, Arizona, BYU

Enjoy the best Saturday of hoops so far this year!!

We get conference basketball games every day for the next 11 weeks

No team did more yesterday to help their at-large case for the NCAA Tournament than Utah State! A huge win @ St Mary’s to close out non-conference play, especially considering the regression of the MW.

If the Aggies get a single-digit seed, we’ll be looking back at December 22 as the reason!

Yes they desperately do! Too much reliance on “eye test” in college football, which leaves too much slack to the committee to do things however they want.

- Cincinnati (vs. Xavier)
The Bearcats win for the first time in 6 years against X. This will likely be a Q3 win by tomorrow (although I’d think it likely finishes Q2), and settles them a little before a really big test against Dayton next Friday

- Auburn (vs. Ohio State)
The Tigers are ridiculously dominant, winning by 38 points today. Clear and obvious #1 team in the country

- DePaul (vs. Wichita State)
Demons stay clearly outside of the bracket still, but pick up their first win outside of Q4 this season and move to 8-2

Teams with huge wins so far today:

- Memphis (@ Clemson)
Another Q1A win for the Tigers, who move into 4/5 seed territory

- Texas A&M (@ Purdue)
The Aggies move into the discussion for a top 3 seed and one of the clear best 15 teams in the country

How to spot a football fan who is transitioning to college basketball:

1) Touts the NET as a power ranking
2) Talks about AP Poll rankings
3) Refers to conference standings for selection
4) Values the eye test over analytics
5) Thinks H2H is more important than body of work

Any others? Add yours👇

- Marquette (-1) @ Dayton, 7:00pm EST
- Gonzaga (-4) vs. UConn, 8:00pm EST
- Creighton @ Alabama (-11), 8:30pm EST
- Saint Mary’s (-1) vs. Boise State, 9:00pm EST

- Arizona State vs. Florida (-8), 3:30pm EST
- LSU vs. SMU (-1), 4:00pm EST
- St. Bonaventure vs. Providence (-1), 5:00pm EST
- Louisville @ Kentucky (-11), 5:15pm EST
- Tennessee (-3) @ Illinois, 5:30pm EST
- McNeese @ Mississippi State (-10), 6:00pm EST
- Grand Canyon vs. Georgia (-9), 6:00pm EST

Tomorrow:
- Memphis @ Clemson (-7), 11:00am EST
- Texas A&M vs. Purdue (-2), 12:00pm EST
- Ohio State vs. Auburn (-9), 1:00pm EST
- Wichita State @ DePaul (-1), 1:00pm EST
- Xavier @ Cincinnati (-10), 2:00pm EST
- Wisconsin (-3) vs. Butler, 2:30pm EST
- UCLA vs. Arizona (-1), 3:00pm EST

🏀A huge weekend slate incoming! Here are the can’t miss games today/tomorrow with high impact on tournament selection/seeding, with the KenPom projected spread.

Today:
- Indiana @ Nebraska (-1), 8:00pm EST

I keep thinking that and I keep being wrong 😂😅 maybe tonight is the night!

Love the Nova pick, that would be an awesome win for them!!

My predictions:

Cinci
BYU
Baylor
Kansas
Texas Tech
Iowa State
West Virginia
Xavier
St John’s
Houston
Seton Hall

Big East: 3
Big 12: 8

Saturday, 12/7:
- Kansas State @ St. John’s
- Butler @ Houston

Sunday, 12/8:
- Oklahoma State @ Seton Hall

Tonight, 12/3:
- Cincinnati @ Villanova
- BYU @ Providence

Wednesday, 12/4:
- Baylor @ UConn
- Marquette @ Iowa State
- Kansas @ Creighton
- DePaul @ Texas Tech

Thursday, 12/5:
- Xavier @ TCU

Friday, 12/6:
- Georgetown @ West Virginia

The Big 12/Big East Battle tips off tonight!
This is a huge opportunity for the Big East to get back on track after a very weak, disappointing start to the season.

11 games over the next 6 days, how many wins does each conference walk away with?

IF YOU’RE NOT WITH US IN NOVEMBER…

… please still show up in March. This sport is awesome, and I’d hate to see you miss out on these great teams and games.

Yes the SEC is going to be the best basketball conference top to bottom this season.

Don’t tell them that though, they might try to break off and start their own superleague…

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