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Saturday, February 10, 2007
Noting some endangered teams
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Here are the 65 teams that Tony Barnhart projects will go into the NCAA Tournament field as Saturday’s play begins. There are several teams in this list from the power conferences—Maryland and West Virginia quickly come to mind—who are in danger of falling out if things don’t go well in the coming days.
Also not making the cut for this field is Connecticut, which plays Georgia Tech at the Georgia Dome Sunday afternoon in a non-conference game critical to the NCAA aspirations of both teams. It was three years ago that they met in the national championship game. Now both are struggling to make their case for inclusion.
Fresh off his stint earlier this week as part of a mock sportswriters selection team, Tony ranks the teams as the real committee does — from 1 to 65:
1: Florida (SEC champ)
2: North Carolina (ACC champ)
3: Wisconsin (Big Ten champ)
4: UCLA (Pac-10 champ)
5: Texas A&M (Big 12 champ)
6: Ohio State (at-large)
7: Pittsburgh (Big East champ)
8: Kansas (at-large)
9: Kentucky (at-large)
10: Washington State (at-large)
11: Memphis (C-USA champ)
12: Marquette (at-large)
13: Oregon (at-large)
14: Butler (Horizon champ)
15: Southern Illinois (Missouri Valley champ)
16: Southern Cal (at-large)
17: Duke (at-large)
18: Indiana (at-large)
19: Air Force (Mountain West champ)
20: Stanford (at-large)
21: Virginia (at-large)
22: Villanova (at-large)
23: Florida State (at-large)
24: Oklahoma State (at-large)
25: Nevada (WAC champ)
26: Gonzaga (West Coast champ)
27: BYU (at-large)
28: Boston College (at-large)
29: Virginia Tech (at-large)
30: Arizona (at-large)
31: Vanderbilt (at-large)
32: Tennessee (at-large)
33: Creighton (at-large)
34: Texas (at-large)
35: UNLV (at-large)
36: Notre Dame (at-large)
37: Missouri State (at-large)
38: Michigan State (at-large)
39: Georgetown (at-large)
40: Kansas State (at-large)
41: Clemson (at-large)
42: Alabama (at-large)
43: Arkansas (at-large)
44: Maryland (at-large)
45: VCU (Colonial champ)
46: Illinois (at-large)
47: UMass (A-10 champ)
48: West Virginia (at-large)
49: Holy Cross (Patriot champ)
50: Davidson (Southern champ)
51: Winthrop (Big South champ)
52: TAMU-CC (Soutland champ)
53: Long Beach State (Big West champ)
54: Akron (MAC champ)
55: Vermont (America East champ)
56: Oral Roberts ((Mid-Contient champ)
57: South Alabama (Sun Belt champs)
58: Marist (Metro Atlantic champs)
59: Austin Peay (Ohio Valley champs)
60: Delaware State (MEAC champs)
61: East Tenn. St. (Atlantic Sun champ)
62: Weber State (Big Sky champ)
63: Jackson State (SWAC champ)
64: Yale (Ivy champ)
65: Central Conn. State (Northeast champ)
CONFERENCE BREAKDOWN
ACC: 8
Big East: 6
Big Ten: 5
Big 12: 5
Missouri Valley: 3
Mountain West: 3
Pac-10: 6
SEC: 6
23 Conferences with one bid only
What do you think of today’s field? Any teams you’d kick out of your bracket? Any teams you think Tony missed that should be in there?
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