2009 NCAA Men's Basketball Bracketology; Final Regular Season Weekend Update

Yesterday's NCAA College Basketball games were pretty hectic. Oklahoma, Kansas, Kentucky, and LSU were all upset. The Kentucky loss has the larger impact on our bracketology predictions since the Wildcats did not have much room left to give to avoid going on the bubble for making the 2009 NCAA tournament! Oklahoma will likely maintain the number one seed since two of their losses came without Blake Griffin.

Although Memphis continues to tear up Conference USA, they haven't played any real competition since last week and remain a 2 seed. Its doubtful they will emerge as a number one seed unless UConn, Louisville, North Carolina, or Oklahomahave an extremely poor showing between now and Selection Sunday. The SEC East remains a quagmire. Either South Carolina or Tennessee will emerge on top of the East, Vanderbilt is starting to enter the picture for March Madness, and Florida and Kentucky are doing their best to snatch a NIT bid from the jaws of a NCAA tournament appearance. Its going to take the SEC tournament for us to really know which SEC teams should go to the Big Dance. This bracketology is based on the RPI, AP polls, and trends of each team over their last five games

2009 NCAA Men's Basketball Bracketology - Seedings 1-8

1 UConn, Louisville, North Carolina, Oklahoma

2 Pitt ^, Memphis, Michigan State ^ , Wake Forrest ^

3 Duke v , Purdue ^, Villanova , Clemson v

4 Xavier^, Kansas, Washington^, Oklahoma St^

5 Missouri v, Marquette v, Florida State v, UCLA^

6 Syracuse, Utah, Texas, Gonzaga

7 Illinois, UCLA, LSU, West Virginia v

8 California, Butler, UNLV, South Carolina

2009 NCAA Men's Basketball Bracketology - Seedings 9-16

9 Ohio State, BYU, Penn State^,Wisconsin ^

10 Providence^, Boston College, Dayton, Creighton ^

11 Niagara (MAAC), Minnesota, Arizona v, Davidson^

12 Northern Iowa (MVC), Western Kentucky (Sun Belt)v,Penn St^,West Virginia v

13 North Dakota St (Summit) ^, Charleston (Southern), VCU (CAA)^, Nevada (WAC)

14 VMI (Big South), Jacksonville (Atlantic Sun) ^, Binghamton(American East)^, Cornell (Ivy)

15 Webber St (Big Sky)^, Stephen F. Austin (Southland), CS Northridge (Big West) ^,Robbert Morris (Northeast) ^

16 Bowling Green (MAC) ^, Morgan St (MEAC), American (Patriot)^,UT Martin (OVC) ^

2009 NCAA Men's Basketball Bracketology - Last Four Out/In
Sitting with a few weeks left in conference play, the last four teams in to the tournament at this point are Penn State, Providence, Arizona, and Creighton. The last four out are Florida, Michigan, Kentucky, and Tennessee. The winner of Saturday's Florida-Kentucky matchup could end up getting the NCAA bid between the two teams in SEC play!

Sources:

http://www.collegehoopsvideo.com/

http://www.collegehoopsvideo.com/Mens/NCAA/March_Madness/Final_Four/texas-tech-shocks-no-9-kansas

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/rankings

http://www.associatedcontent.com/subject/article/ncaa+basketball

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/recap?gameId=290630142

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/recap?gameId=290630099