One extremely minute change for today’s bracket from yesterday: Mount St. Mary’s winning the NEC automatic bid instead of Bryant shuffles around the 16 seeds on the true seed list and in the bracket. That’s about it.
Congratulations to five more teams that locked up auto-bids on Tuesday: Cleveland State (Horizon League), Drexel (CAA), Gonzaga (WCC), Mount St. Mary’s (NEC) and Oral Roberts (Summit League).
Here’s the Wednesday morning edition of Bauertology for March 10.
THE BRACKET
THE TRUE SEED LIST
1 SEEDS
1. Gonzaga (26-0)
2. Baylor (21-1)
3. Michigan (19-3)
4. Illinois (20-6)
2 SEEDS
5. Alabama (21-6)
6. Iowa (20-7)
7. Ohio State (18-8)
8. Houston (21-3)
3 SEEDS
9. West Virginia (18-8)
10. Arkansas (21-5)
11. Kansas (19-8)
12. Oklahoma State (18-7)
4 SEEDS
13. Villanova (16-5)
14. Purdue (18-8)
15. Texas (17-7)
16. Virginia (17-6)
5 SEEDS
17. Florida State (15-5)
18. USC (21-6)
19. Creighton (18-7)
20. Colorado (20-7)
6 SEEDS
21. Texas Tech (17-9)
22. Missouri (15-8)
23. Tennessee (17-7)
24. Oregon (19-5)
7 SEEDS
25. Clemson (16-6)
26. Oklahoma (14-9)
27. BYU (20-6)
28. San Diego State (20-4)
8 SEEDS
29. Loyola Chicago (24-4)
30. Wisconsin (16-11)
31. LSU (16-8)
32. UConn (14-6)
9 SEEDS
33. Florida (13-8)
34. Virginia Tech (15-5)
35. Rutgers (14-10)
36. North Carolina (16-9)
10 SEEDS
37. St. Bonaventure (15-4)
38. UCLA (17-8)
39. Georgia Tech (15-8)
40. Michigan State (15-11)
11 SEEDS
41. VCU (19-6)
42. Maryland (14-12)
43. Louisville (13-6)
44. Drake (25-4)
12 SEEDS
*45. Wichita State (15-4)
*46. Colorado State (17-5)
*47. Boise State (18-7)
*48. Ole Miss (15-10)
49. Winthrop (23-1)
50. Western Kentucky (18-6)
13 SEEDS
51. UC Santa Barbara (19-4)
52. Toledo (20-7)
53. Colgate (12-1)
54. Liberty (23-5)
14 SEEDS
55. UNC Greensboro (21-8)
56. Abilene Christian (21-4)
57. Morehead State (23-7)
58. Southern Utah (19-3)
15 SEEDS
59. Grand Canyon (15-6)
60. Cleveland State (18-7)
61. Siena (12-4)
62. Drexel (12-7)
16 SEEDS
63. Oral Roberts (15-10)
64. Hartford (14-8)
*65. Appalachian State (17-11)
*66. Mount St. Mary’s (12-10)
*67. Prairie View A&M (14-4)
*68. Norfolk State (14-7)
THE BUBBLE
LAST FOUR BYES
1. VCU (19-6)
2. Maryland (14-12)
3. Louisville (13-6)
4. Drake (25-4)
LAST FOUR IN
1. Wichita State (15-4)
2. Colorado State (17-5)
3. Boise State (18-7)
4. Ole Miss (15-10)
FIRST FOUR OUT (NIT 1 SEEDS)
1. Xavier (13-7)
2. Utah State (18-7)
3. Syracuse (15-8)
4. Saint Louis (14-6)
NEXT FOUR OUT (NIT 2 SEEDS)
1. Seton Hall (13-12)
2. St. John’s (16-10)
3. Memphis (15-7)
4. SMU (11-4)
NIT 3 SEEDS
1. Duke (12-11)
2. Stanford (14-12)
3. Belmont (26-4)
4. NC State (13-9)
NIT 4 SEEDS
1. Indiana (12-14)
2. Minnesota (13-14)
3. Providence (13-12)
4. Richmond (13-8)
BIDS BY CONFERENCE
Big Ten: 9
ACC: 7
Big 12: 7
SEC: 7
Pac-12: 4
Big East: 3
Mountain West: 3
American: 2
Atlantic 10: 2
Missouri Valley: 2
WCC: 2