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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 1336482, member: 1969"]
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[B]Cleveland[/B]
1.  Kentucky
2.  Wisconsin
3.  Notre Dame
4.  West Virginia
5.  Louisville

[B]Syracuse[/B]
1.   Villanova
2.  Gonzaga
3.  Iowa St
4.  UNC
5.   Arkansas

[B]Houston[/B]
1.  Duke
2.  Kansas
3.  Maryland
4.  Oklahoma
5.   SMU

[B]Los Angeles[/B]
1.  Virginia
2.  Arizona
3.  Baylor
4.  Northern Iowa
5.  Butler

Notes:
- In terms of # 1 seeds I am still not sure about Virginia or Wisconsin.   Some speculate that the committee may keep Wisconsin at #2 no matter what because they play late.  I doubt that -- they will have a contingency.

- Yes, the Cleveland Region is loaded.   But the fact is the committee will put the closest team where possible.     They don't try to balance within teams of the same seed -- they view a 2 seed as a 2 seed.    So if Wisky is a 2 it's almost certainly going to play in tjeor/

If I put Wisky ahead of Virginia, Virginia would move to Syracuse, Kansas would move to Cleveland, and Gonzaga would move to Houston.

Last 5 Teams In
Purdue
Texas
Boise St
UConn
Tulsa

Last 4 Teams out
Ole Miss
BYU
Old Dominion
Illinois

Notes:
Most have OLe Miss and BYU in but I do not.   BYU was 3-4 vs top 100 (1-4 vs top 50),  They have 3 bad losses as well.

Texas has 0 bad losses.  Its top 50 record is awful (3-12), but

While Ole Miss is 3-6 vs top 50, and 9-9 vs top 100, they already had 4 bad losses.

I added Tulsa and UConn due to a lack of bad losses on their resme.   I really want to change my mind on UConn.   UConn has 13 losses which is high, but only one is sub  #100.    And they now have 6 top 50 wins as well.

Thoughts... I do want to convince myself to drop UConn!!!
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