Home | Visitor | Spread |
Air Force | Wyoming | 2.5 |
Ball St. | Western Michigan | 10.9 |
Belmont | Murray St. | 4.9 |
Boise St. | Nevada | 5.5 |
Buffalo | Bowling Green | 5.3 |
Butler | Creighton | -4.0 |
Central Michigan | Akron | -7.6 |
Dayton | Davidson | 11.1 |
Eastern Michigan | Kent St. | -15.6 |
Georgia Tech | North Carolina St. | -5.6 |
Iowa St. | Texas | 1.3 |
Kansas St. | Kansas | -2.1 |
Kentucky | Georgia | 9.0 |
Miami (O) | Northern Illinois | 3.8 |
Mississippi St. | Tennessee | -8.1 |
New Mexico | San Jose St. | 11.4 |
North Carolina | Boston College | 17.5 |
Notre Dame | Florida St. | 4.9 |
Richmond | Rhode Island | 8.8 |
South Carolina | Mississippi | -6.7 |
Southern Illinois | Evansville | 17.7 |
Texas Tech | Baylor | -0.5 |
Toledo | Ohio | 6.2 |
Tulane | Houston | -10.8 |
Utah St. | UNLV | 7.0 |
Valparaiso | Illinois Chicago | 1.8 |
Vanderbilt | Alabama | -10.8 |
VCU | Massachusetts | 7.0 |
Wake Forest | Clemson | 0.8 |
Wisconsin | Penn St. | 1.2 |
January 17, 2023
PiRate Ratings College Basketball–Tuesday, January 17, 2023
January 2, 2023
PiRate Ratings Bracketology
Date | 1/2/2023 | |||||
Seed | Team | Team | Team | Team | Team | Team |
1 | Purdue | Houston | Connecticut | Kansas | ||
2 | Tennessee | Arizona | Alabama | UCLA | ||
3 | Texas | Virginia | Gonzaga | Arkansas | ||
4 | Duke | Baylor | Indiana | West Virginia | ||
5 | Ohio St. | Miami (Fla.) | Xavier | Wisconsin | ||
6 | Auburn | Kentucky | North Carolina | Iowa St. | ||
7 | San Diego St. | Virginia Tech | Illinois | Mississippi St. | ||
8 | Maryland | Marquette | Saint Mary’s | Missouri | ||
9 | New Mexico | Memphis | TCU | Kansas St. | ||
10 | Creighton | Texas Tech | Utah | Florida Atlantic | ||
11 | Penn St. | Utah St. | Oklahoma | Michigan St. | Rutgers | Arizona St. |
12 | Charleston | Kent St. | Iona | Dayton | ||
13 | James Madison | Indiana St. | UC-Irvine | Oral Roberts | ||
14 | UMass Lowell | Liberty | Princeton | Colgate | ||
15 | Utah Valley | UNC Greensboro | Northern Kentucky | Eastern Washington | ||
16 | Longwood | SIU Edwardsville | Grambling | Texas A&M CC | Norfolk St. | St. Francis PA |
Last Four Byes: Texas Tech, Utah, Penn St., Utah St.
Last Four In: Oklahoma, Michigan St., Rutgers, Arizona St.
First Four Out: Oklahoma St., Iowa, UAB, North Carolina St.
Next Four Out: Providence, Wake Forest, Northwestern, LSU
October 6, 2022
PiRate Picks — October 6, 2022
After coming back down to Earth last week with a 2-5 record against the spread, our seasonal record now stands at 18-10. That’s still abnormally high. Let’s hope we can get back on the winning side this week with seven selections, hoping to go 4-3 and be happy with a profit.
About 18 other games came within a point or two of being playable for us in our in-house method of picking games either against the spread, the total, or in creating a money line parlay where the odds are +120 or higher, preferably higher than +130 or +140.
Here are this week’s selections. Remember: We never wager real money on our selections, and we suggest you follow this lead.
Selection #1: Alabama and Texas A&M Over 51 1/2
First, we expect Bryce Young to be ready for this game, and he will only need a half or so of time he will be needed, as Alabama exacts some revenge against the Aggies. We chose to take the Over here, because ‘Bama could cover the total by themselves. We aren’t saying that a 52-0 game is in the offing, but 41-14 would be realistic.
Selection #2: Georgia Southern and Georgia St. Under 67 1/2
Both of these teams can put points on the scoreboard and score 35 points against a defense the caliber of their opponent this week, but this heated rivalry game is liable to have added defensive stops. Thus, we think the total is a little too high. We think this game could be 31-28, as high as 35-28, and we still win at 35-31. As long as this game doesn’t go to overtime, we think this is our top play of the week.
Selection #3: Army and Wake Forest Under 66 1/2
Our thinking here is that Army will try to reduce this game to a minimum of plays, and Wake Forest is coming off consecutive big games. Army’s offense isn’t assessing the real estate like it has in recent years, so scoring 20 points is not automatic, as they could only manage 14 against a weaker Georgia State defense last week. Wake Forest gave up 25 points to a Vanderbilt team that is somewhat comparable offensively to Army’s offensive abilities, and the Demon Deacons put up a strong defensive effort last week. We see this game as a 35-14, and 45-21 still wins this one.
Selection #4: Arkansas + 9 1/2 vs. Mississippi State
It is not in our DNA to play an underdog at 9 1/2 points, as 10 1/2 gives us so much better odds for the money. And, we know that teams that play Alabama frequently show the effects of the pasting they received in the next game.
Our internal game projection makes this spread playable for us, as we see this as almost a tossup and only give the Bulldogs the edge due to home field advantage. We don’t see State winning by more than a touchdown, if they win at all.
Selection #5: Money Line Parlay at +144.92
Notre Dame over BYU
Utah over UCLA
We wanted to find a way to get the Utes into our selections this week, and this appears to be the best possible play. After dropping the opener to Florida, the Utes have begun to look like the class of the Pac-12. As for the Notre Dame-BYU game, it is our belief that Notre Dame’s game with Marshall was a wake up call for the Irish. Looking at how close they came to winning at Ohio State compared to how the Buckeyes have fared since, we believe Notre Dame is sitting on their best game of the year this week. This is a neutral site game in Las Vegas, and it could be one of the more exciting TV games. But, we think the outcome is not all that much in doubt.
Selection #6: Money Line Parlay at +148.05
Nevada over Colorado St.
Tulane over East Carolina
These two games are simply a matter of our thinking that the ML is too low for the favorites, and thus, it gives us an inflated potential payout for playing the two favorites.
Money Line Parlay at +202.93
Oklahoma St. over Texas Tech
Kentucky over South Carolina
North Carolina St. over Florida St.
Similar to the #6 selection, our beliefs that these three favorites will win, while not as strong as the two-gamer above, still remains strong enough to make it playable at better than 2-1 odds.
August 16, 2022
Atlantic Coast Conference Preview
With all the rumored movement of teams from one conference to another, for now the Atlantic Coast Conference appears to be on solid ground. The league’s Grant of Rights deal with its members make it quite difficult, if not impossible for teams to exit the league. Under this deal, any team would have to forfeit all media revenue earned in another conference back to the ACC. An exit fee of $100 million or more would make leaving the ACC for the SEC or Big Ten financially unwise.
Of course, there are always loopholes that can be discovered by crafty legal departments, so impossible is not in the college football vocabulary. Impossible was a word associated with the words “beating Clemson” until last year. The Tigers failed to win the Atlantic Division for the first time 2014. Wake Forest was the surprise winner in the Atlantic, while Pittsburgh won the Coastal Division title. Wake Forest figured to be a contender for the division title again this year until last week, their starting quarterback, Sam Hartman, was ruled out indefinitely due to a non-football issue that required a surgical procedure. Hartman might return late in the season, but his loss will hit the Demon Deacons hard enough to take them out of the conference championship picture.
2022 will be the final year of divisional play in this league. Here are the preseason PiRate Ratings for the league.
ACC Preseason PiRate Ratings
Atlantic Division | ||||
Team | PiRate | Mean | Bias | Average |
Clemson | 119.7 | 119.5 | 120.5 | 119.9 |
NC State | 118.3 | 117.3 | 118.5 | 118.0 |
Wake Forest | 113.9 | 113.2 | 113.2 | 113.4 |
Florida St. | 111.7 | 111.0 | 110.9 | 111.2 |
Louisville | 111.7 | 110.5 | 110.7 | 110.9 |
Syracuse | 106.4 | 104.8 | 104.7 | 105.3 |
Boston College | 100.5 | 102.5 | 100.2 | 101.1 |
Coastal Division | ||||
Team | PiRate | Mean | Bias | Average |
Pittsburgh | 115.9 | 114.6 | 114.2 | 114.9 |
Miami (Fla.) | 115.1 | 113.7 | 114.9 | 114.6 |
North Carolina | 108.0 | 108.2 | 107.5 | 107.9 |
Virginia | 104.0 | 104.2 | 102.3 | 103.5 |
Virginia Tech | 100.9 | 101.3 | 98.4 | 100.2 |
Georgia Tech | 95.6 | 95.5 | 93.6 | 94.9 |
Duke | 84.2 | 86.7 | 81.1 | 84.0 |
ACC | 107.6 | 107.3 | 106.5 | 107.1 |
Preseason Official ACC Media Poll
Votes | |||
# | Atlantic | 1st Place | Overall |
1 | Clemson | 111 | 1080 |
2 | North Carolina St. | 44 | 959 |
3 | Wake Forest | 6 | 783 |
4 | Louisville | 0 | 591 |
5 | Florida St. | 2 | 509 |
6 | Boston College | 1 | 469 |
7 | Syracuse | 0 | 201 |
# | Coastal | 1st Place | Overall |
1 | Miami | 98 | 1036 |
2 | Pittsburgh | 38 | 911 |
3 | North Carolina | 18 | 823 |
4 | Virginia | 6 | 667 |
5 | Virginia Tech | 3 | 592 |
6 | Georgia Tech | 1 | 343 |
7 | Duke | 0 | 220 |
Championship | Overall | ||
Clemson | 103 | ||
North Carolina St. | 38 | ||
Miami | 8 | ||
Wake Forest | 4 | ||
Pittsburgh | 3 | ||
Virginia | 3 | ||
Florida St. | 2 | ||
North Carolina | 2 | ||
Boston College | 1 |
The PiRate Ratings are designed to look at just the next week’s schedule of games and not to use to look forward. Nevertheless, here are the predicted won-loss records for the league.
Predicted Won-Loss Records
Atlantic | Conf. | Overall |
Clemson | 8-0 | 12-1 |
North Carolina St. | 7-1 | 11-1 |
Louisville | 5-3 | 8-4 |
Wake Forest | 4-4 | 8-4 |
Florida St. | 4-4 | 7-5 |
Syracuse | 2-6 | 4-8 |
Boston College | 1-7 | 4-8 |
Coastal | Conf. | Overall |
Miami | 7-1 | 10-3 |
Pittsburgh | 7-1 | 11-1 |
Virginia Tech | 4-4 | 8-4 |
North Carolina | 4-4 | 7-5 |
Virginia | 2-6 | 5-7 |
Georgia Tech | 1-7 | 2-10 |
Duke | 0-8 | 2-10 |
Clemson picked to win ACC Championship Game
January 1, 2022
February 26, 2021
PiRate Ratings College Basketball Spreads
Friday, February 26, 2021
Home | Visitor | Spread |
St. Bonaventure | George Washington | 15.2 |
Saint Louis | Richmond | 2.2 |
Cincinnati | Tulane | 5.3 |
Stetson | North Florida | 4.6 |
Kennesaw St. | Florida Gulf Coast | -7.7 |
Northern Arizona | Southern Utah | -7.2 |
Idaho | Montana St. | -13.0 |
Penn St. | Purdue | 0.3 |
Cal Poly | UC Davis | -7.1 |
UC Irvine | UC San Diego | 9.8 |
Cal St. Bakersfield | Cal St. Northridge | 10.8 |
UC Riverside | UCSB | -2.3 |
Hawaii | Long Beach State | 7.3 |
James Madison | Drexel | 1.9 |
Marshall | North Texas | 3.5 |
Old Dominion | Middle Tennessee | 9.6 |
UTSA | UAB | -3.9 |
Louisiana Tech | Rice | 9.1 |
Southern Miss | Florida Atlantic | -0.2 |
Siena | Manhattan | 10.7 |
Saint Peter’s | Rider | 10.5 |
Akron | Bowling Green | 4.1 |
Bradley | Drake | -7.0 |
Evansville | Missouri St. | -7.2 |
Valparaiso | Indiana St. | -3.6 |
Loyola (Chi.) | Southern Illinois | 21.3 |
Illinois St. | Northern Iowa | 1.4 |
Utah St. | Nevada | 6.8 |
UNLV | Fresno St. | 4.8 |
Central Connecticut | Wagner | -9.5 |
Bryant | Long Island University | 8.2 |
Merrimack | St. Francis (NY) | 2.8 |
Sacred Heart | Fairleigh Dickinson | 0.9 |
Texas St. | UL Monroe | 10.1 |
Georgia Southern | Appalachian St. | -0.9 |
UT Arlington | Arkansas St. | 2.1 |
Troy | Coastal Carolina | -5.6 |
Little Rock | Louisiana | 0.1 |
South Alabama | Georgia St. | -1.9 |
Denver | Omaha | -1.6 |
South Dakota St. | UM Kansas City | 8.7 |
Utah Valley | UT Rio Grande Valley | 1.1 |
Tarleton | New Mexico St. | -6.4 |
Seattle | Grand Canyon | -6.5 |
Coming Later Friday: Updated Bracketology. There was considerable movement in the field of 68 since our Monday update. Teams like Duke, Michigan St., and North Carolina St. are making late pushes to sneak into the field. The first conference tournament began last night, and more tourneys will commence in the next few days, as March Madness lite begins Monday.
The PiRates will be heading down to the galley to make a big bowl of stew and start crunching the numbers that will become Bracketnomics 2021. The recipe has changed–for the Bracketnomics, not the stew.
April 6, 2020
April 4, 2020
March 28, 2020
The Greatest NCAA Tournament That Never Was–Elite 8 Saturday
We are down to the Elite 8, and after today’s East and South Regional Finals, there will be six teams left in the field. We’re just 24 hours away from knowing which of these best teams of all time (1960-2019) will make the Final Four.
If you haven’t been following this simulation since its beginning, we took 68 of the best NCAA basketball teams between 1960 and 2019. No school could have teams from consecutive seasons, or else this would have been the UCLA Invitational.
The games were simulated by actually playing the college made version of Statis-Pro Basketball, a game made by Avalon Hill and Sports Illustrated between the 1970’s and 1980’s. Our Captain solved the codes for that game and applied them to college.
Here are the results for the East and South Region Championships.
EAST REGION
Wolf Pack Dominates On Boards/Towe Magnificent
1974 North Carolina St. |
75 |
2019 Virginia |
64 |
In it’s first three games in this tournament, Virginia had been able to limit turnovers and force the opponent into bad shots. In the Elite 8, the Cavaliers committed just seven turnovers, but they could not prevent North Carolina State from getting open shots. Thanks to point guard Monte Towe’s excellent passing, the Wolf Pack shooters were open more often than a normal UVa opponent.
Towe dished out 10 assists in the game, five in both halves. Towe also contributed 22 points, hitting all eight of his foul shots in the second half when North Carolina State increased their lead from five to 11 points.
Boxscore |
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North Carolina St. |
Start |
FG |
FGA |
3P |
3PA |
FT |
FTA |
ORB |
DRB |
TRB |
AST |
STL |
BLK |
TOV |
PF |
PTS |
Tom Burleson |
C |
8 |
13 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
6 |
4 |
6 |
10 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
2 |
2 |
20 |
Tim Stoddard |
F |
2 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
3 |
1 |
7 |
8 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
6 |
David Thompson |
F |
5 |
11 |
1 |
3 |
6 |
8 |
3 |
7 |
10 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
17 |
Mo Rivers |
G |
2 |
7 |
1 |
4 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
3 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
3 |
6 |
Monte Towe |
G |
5 |
12 |
4 |
9 |
8 |
9 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
10 |
2 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
22 |
Phil Spence |
1 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
|
Greg Hawkins |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
Steve Nuce |
1 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
|
Mark Moeller |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
|
Team |
3 |
|||||||||||||||
Totals |
24 |
52 |
6 |
16 |
21 |
28 |
9 |
30 |
39 |
14 |
4 |
7 |
11 |
13 |
75 |
|
|
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Virginia |
Start |
FG |
FGA |
3P |
3PA |
FT |
FTA |
ORB |
DRB |
TRB |
AST |
STL |
BLK |
TOV |
PF |
PTS |
Mamadi Diakete |
C |
1 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
5 |
2 |
De’Andre Hunter |
F |
2 |
7 |
0 |
3 |
3 |
4 |
1 |
4 |
5 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
4 |
7 |
Ty Jerome |
F |
5 |
12 |
2 |
6 |
3 |
4 |
0 |
4 |
4 |
6 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
5 |
15 |
Kyle Guy |
G |
6 |
14 |
3 |
8 |
3 |
3 |
0 |
4 |
4 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
4 |
18 |
Kihei Clark |
G |
2 |
5 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
3 |
5 |
Braxton Key |
5 |
9 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
4 |
5 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
12 |
|
Jack Salt |
2 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
3 |
3 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
5 |
|
Jay Huff |
0 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
|
Team |
2 |
|||||||||||||||
Totals |
23 |
57 |
7 |
22 |
11 |
15 |
4 |
22 |
28 |
13 |
3 |
1 |
7 |
26 |
64 |
|
Player of the Game |
Monte Towe |
Score By Halves |
|||
Team |
1 |
2 |
Final |
N. C. State |
34 |
41 |
75 |
Virginia |
31 |
33 |
64 |
WEST REGION
Brunson and Bridges Bring Back The Wildcats
2018 Villanova |
75 |
1970 UCLA |
69 |
Trailing by six points eight minutes into the final half, Villanova’s Jalen Brunson and Michael Bridges scored a combined 19 points to bring the Wildcats back into the lead at 68-67 with less than two minutes remaining. Foul shooting and multiple missed three point shots sent the Bruins back to Westwood.
Boxscore |
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Villanova |
Start |
FG |
FGA |
3P |
3PA |
FT |
FTA |
ORB |
DRB |
TRB |
AST |
STL |
BLK |
TOV |
PF |
PTS |
Omari Spellman |
C |
0 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
4 |
6 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
5 |
0 |
Eric Paschall |
F |
2 |
5 |
1 |
3 |
6 |
6 |
1 |
5 |
6 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
11 |
Michael Bridges |
F |
7 |
12 |
3 |
5 |
5 |
5 |
1 |
7 |
8 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
1 |
22 |
Phil Booth |
G |
2 |
4 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
6 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
10 |
Jalen Brunson |
G |
7 |
17 |
3 |
5 |
6 |
8 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
6 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
3 |
23 |
Donte DiVincenzo |
2 |
6 |
1 |
4 |
2 |
3 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
3 |
1 |
0 |
3 |
1 |
7 |
|
Collin Gillespie |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Dhamir Cosby-Roundtree |
1 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
|
Team |
3 |
|||||||||||||||
Totals |
21 |
50 |
10 |
21 |
23 |
28 |
4 |
22 |
29 |
12 |
5 |
4 |
10 |
15 |
75 |
|
|
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UCLA |
Start |
FG |
FGA |
3P |
3PA |
FT |
FTA |
ORB |
DRB |
TRB |
AST |
STL |
BLK |
TOV |
PF |
PTS |
Steve Patterson |
C |
5 |
11 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
7 |
9 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
4 |
12 |
Sidney Wicks |
F |
7 |
15 |
0 |
2 |
3 |
5 |
4 |
8 |
12 |
3 |
1 |
2 |
5 |
4 |
17 |
Curtis Rowe |
F |
6 |
12 |
1 |
3 |
2 |
3 |
2 |
8 |
10 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
4 |
15 |
John Vallely |
G |
4 |
8 |
2 |
6 |
3 |
4 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
5 |
1 |
0 |
3 |
3 |
13 |
Henry Bibby |
G |
4 |
10 |
2 |
7 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
4 |
12 |
John Ecker |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
|
Jon Chapman |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
|
Bill Seibert |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
|
Team |
3 |
|||||||||||||||
Totals |
26 |
56 |
5 |
18 |
12 |
16 |
9 |
26 |
38 |
12 |
5 |
3 |
15 |
26 |
69 |
|
Player of the Game |
Jalen Brunson |
Score By Halves |
|||
Team |
1 |
2 |
Final |
Villanova |
40 |
35 |
75 |
UCLA |
41 |
28 |
69 |
Coming Tomorrow: The Midwest and West Region Finals
Midwest Region Championship: 1968 UCLA vs. 1968 Houston
West Region Championship: 1972 UCLA vs. 1982 North Carolina
March 9, 2020
PiRate Ratings Bracketology For March 9, 2020
Date |
3/9/2020 |
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Seed |
Team |
Team |
Team |
Team |
Team |
Team |
1 |
Kansas |
Gonzaga |
Dayton |
Baylor |
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2 |
San Diego St. |
Florida St. |
Villanova |
Creighton |
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3 |
Duke |
Kentucky |
Seton Hall |
Maryland |
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4 |
Michigan St. |
Louisville |
Oregon |
Wisconsin |
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5 |
Ohio St. |
Auburn |
Butler |
BYU |
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6 |
West Virginia |
Iowa |
Penn St. |
Illinois |
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7 |
Virginia |
Colorado |
Michigan |
Arizona |
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8 |
Houston |
Providence |
LSU |
Florida |
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9 |
Saint Mary’s |
USC |
Marquette |
Oklahoma |
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10 |
Arizona St. |
Rutgers |
Texas Tech |
UTAH ST. |
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11 |
East Tennessee St. |
Indiana |
Stanford |
Xavier |
Cincinnati |
|
12 |
Yale |
Stephen F. Austin |
LIBERTY |
Richmond |
Wichita St. |
|
13 |
Vermont |
Akron |
North Texas |
New Mexico St. |
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14 |
BRADLEY |
BELMONT |
Hofstra |
Colgate |
||
15 |
UC-Irvine |
Wright St. |
Little Rock |
E. Washington |
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16 |
North Dakota St. |
WINTHROP |
Siena |
Prairie View |
St. Francis (PA) |
N. Carolina A&T |
Teams in all CAPS have earned automatic bids
The Bubble
Last Four BYES: Rutgers, Texas Tech, Indiana, and Stanford
Last Four IN: Xavier, Cincinnati, Richmond, and Wichita St.