PiRate Ratings Bracketology For March 2, 2020

Date	3/2/2020
Seed	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team
1	Kansas	Gonzaga	Baylor	San Diego St.
2	Dayton	Maryland	Florida St.	Seton Hall
3	Duke	Villanova	Louisville	Kentucky
4	Creighton	Oregon	Michigan St.	Penn St.
5	Auburn	Iowa	Ohio St.	Colorado
6	Butler	Wisconsin	BYU	West Virginia
7	Michigan	Arizona	Marquette	Illinois
8	Houston	LSU	Virginia	Texas Tech
9	Saint Mary’s	Florida	Arizona St.	Xavier
10	USC	Indiana	Oklahoma	Rutgers
11	Providence	Stanford	East Tennessee	Northern Iowa
12	Yale	Liberty	Wichita St.	Utah St.	Cincinnati	Rhode Island
13	Stephen F. Austin	Vermont	North Texas	Akron
14	New Mexico St.	Hofstra	Belmont	Colgate
15	UC-Irvine	Little Rock	Wright St.	South Dakota St.
16	Montana	Radford	Siena	Prairie View	St. Francis (PA)	N.C. A&T

 

Bubble Contenders

 

69	UCLA
70	Mississippi St.
71	North Carolina St.
72	Richmond
73	Memphis
74	Texas
75	Arkansas
76	Alabama

 

Notes

(1.)  The last two at-large teams in the field, Cincinnati and Rhode Island, rate less than one-half point ahead of the first team out of the field, UCLA, and less then one point ahead of the next team out, Mississippi St.

(2.) Stephen F. Austin and Vermont actually rank ahead of the last two in and first two out, but we cannot put four mid-major teams in the 12-seed spot, and make the play-in games a battle of 13-seeds.

(3.) No political alterations have been made in this bracketology release.  These 68 + 8 teams listed here are 100% mechanically derived using our unique statistical criteria.  Had we applied some political bend to this report, some of the teams would have been moved on their seed lines, and UCLA would be moved into the field ahead of Rhode Island, because we believe the Selection Committee would be forced to take the Pac-12’s conference champion (assuming UCLA does win the Pac-12)

 

Coming Later Today:  Conference Tournament action begins tomorrow evening.  We will release the schedules and bracketing for the conference tournaments that are set to begin in the next few days.