GDB Bracket Prognostications

March Madness is upon us folks.  The eternal regular season has finally ended and now we have the conference championships to look forward to before the big show begins a week from Thursday.  So before the big conferences get started later this week, lets see how the field of 64 is looking at this moment.

Teams in tournament by Conference (Projected conference winners with asterisk):

ACC:  UNC, Duke, Clemson, Miami

Big East:  Georgetown, Louisville, UConn, Notre Dame, Pitt, Marquette, West Virginia, Syr.

Big Ten:  Wisconsin, Purdue, Indiana, Michigan State, Ohio State

Big Twelve:  Kansas, Texas, K-State, Baylor, Oklahoma, Texas A@M

Pacific 10:  UCLA, Stanford, Wash. State, USC, Arizona, Arizona State, Oregon

SEC:  Tennesee, Vanderbilt, Miss.St, Kentucky, Arkansas

America East:  UMBC*

Atlantic 10:  Xavier, UMass

Big Sky:  Portland State*

Big South:  Winthrop

Big West:  UC Santa Barbara*

Colonial:  George Mason, VCU

Conference USA:  Memphis

Ivy:  Cornell

MAAC:  Siena*

MAC:  Kent State

MEAC:  Morgan State*

MVC:  Drake, Illinois State

Northeast:  Mount St. Mary's*

Ohio Valley:  Austin Peay

Patriot:  American*

Southern:  Davidson*

Southland:  Stephen F. Austin*

SWAC:  Alabama State*

Sun Belt:  South Alabama*

WCC:  Gonzaga, St.Mary's

WAC:  Boise State*

Mountain West:  BYU, UNLV

Horizon:  Butler

Atlantic Sun:  Belmont

Summit:  Oral Roberts*

So with the 65 teams in the field, at this moment, lets see how they could possibly stack up in the 4 regions

East

1 North Carolina            

2 Georgetown       

3 Stanford

4 Vanderbilt

5 Drake

6 Clemson

7 Gonzaga

8 Marquette

9 St. Mary's

10 Texas A&M

11 Oregon

12 Ohio State

13 George Mason 

14 Portland St.

15 Alabama St.

16 Morgan St./

     Mt. St. Mary's

South

1 Memphis

2 Texas

3 Duke

4 Purdue

5 Wash. St

6 Michigan St.

7 Kansas St.

8 Baylor

9 West Virginia

10 Kent State

11 UMass

12 Winthrop

13 South Alabama

14 Boise St.

15 Cornell

16 Siena

Midwest

1 Kansas

2 Tennessee

3 Xavier

4 UConn

5 Butler

6 Indiana

7 Pittsburgh

8 UNLV

9 Arizona

10 Miami

11 Davidson

12 Arizona St.

13 UC Santa Barbara

14 Stephen F. Austin

15 UMBC

16 Oral Roberts

West

1 UCLA

2 Wisconsin

3 Louisville

4 Notre Dame

5 Miss. St.

6 BYU

7 USC

8 Oklahoma

9 Arkansas

10 Kentucky

11 Syracuse

12 Virginia Commonwealth

13 Illinois St. 

14 Austin Peay

15 Belmont 

16 American

There will most likely be some upsets in the smaller conferences that will shrink the bubble and take some of the teams from the big conferences out.  We will update this again Thursday after we know more conference winners, and Saturday night after the major conferences are winding to an end.  Thank god March Madness is here!!