The Confidential

Confidential Bracketology

It is Super Bowl week.  With football coming to a conclusion, this means that basketball–particularly college basketball–takes center stage.  And that means the Big Dance, brackets, and more.  With the countdown to March Madness looming, who is already on the bubble?  Check out Confidential Bracketology below:

One-bid conference teams:

1. Horizon League:  Wisc. Green Bay
2. Conference USA:  Southern Miss
3. Summit League:  North Dakota State
4. Colonial Athletic Assn: Delaware
5. MAAC: Canisius
6. Sun Belt: Georgia State.
7. Ivy League: Harvard
8. Big West: UC Irvine
9. SWAC: Southern
10. MEAC: North Carolina Central
11. Western Athletic: Utah Valley
12. Patriot: American
13. Atlantic Sun: Mercer
14. Southland: Stephen F. Austin
15. Ohio Valley: Belmont
16. Northeast: Bryant
17. Big Sky: Northern Colorado
18. America East: Stony Brook
19. Southern: Tenn-Chattanooga
20. Big South: Winthrop
21. West Coast: Gonzaga

That is 21 of the 68 teams.

The other conferences~~LOCKS

• The American: Cincinnati, Louisville (2)
• Atlantic 10: UMass, St. Louis (2)
• The ACC: Syracuse, Virginia, Pitt, Duke (4)
• Big XII: Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Oklahoma State, Iowa State (5)
• Big East: Creighton, Villanova, Xavier, Providence (4)
• Big 10: Michigan, Michigan St., Wisconsin, Iowa, Ohio State, Minnesota (6)
• MAC: Toledo, Akron (2)
• Missouri Valley: Wichita State, Indiana State (2)
• Mountain West: San Diego State, New Mexico (2)
• Pac-12: Arizona, UCLA, California, Arizona State (4)
• SEC: Florida, Kentucky, Ole Miss, Missouri (4)

There is 37 more teams, for a total of 58.  The #1 seeds: Arizona in the West, Syracuse in the East, Kansas in the Midwest, Wichita State in the South.

The final 10 teams.  Here are the 20 best bubble teams fighting to be on the right side (the Confidential’s 10 selections in bold):

1. SMU
2. Memphis
3. UConn
4. Florida State
5. North Carolina
6. Wake Forest
7. George Washington
8. VCU
9. Indiana
10. Tennessee
11. Baylor
12. Kansas State
13. Louisiana Tech
14. Ohio
15. Stanford
16. Washington
17. Utah
18. Colorado
19. Arkansas
20. Brigham Young

There it is folks.  What do you think?  Let us know.