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From The Dugout
By Keith LeClair
©2004 Bonesville.net
Baseball Bracketology
Well folks, it's that time
of year again, as the road to Omaha is paved more clearly for 64 teams
who will be announced Monday. I am now going to take the challenge and
see how close I am in predicting the 64 teams into seeds and give you
the bracket for East Carolina.
Please, no hate mail. One
thing you need to understand is the NCAA is trying to cut back on the
number of teams they put in the air to fly to different regional sites,
so that's why more local teams within driving distance will be bracketed
together.
This will be a lot of work
and fun, so if you don't like what you see, remember it all becomes
official on ESPN2 Monday.
Automatic Bids (teams who
won or I think will win their conference tournaments):
1. American East: Maine
2. ACC: Georgia tech
3. Atlantic Sun: Central Florida
4. Atlantic 10: Richmond
5. Big East: Notre Dame
6. Big South: Coastal Carolina
7. Big Ten: Minnesota
8. Big XII: Oklahoma State
9. Big West: Long Beach State
10. CAA: UNC-Wilmington
11. Conference USA: East Carolina
12. Horizon: Illinois-Chicago
13. Ivy: Princeton
14. Metro Atlantic: Lemoyne
15. MAC: Eastern Michigan
16. Mid-Continent: Oral Roberts
17. Mid-Eastern: Bethune-Cookman
18. Missouri Valley: Creighton
19. Mountain West: San Diego State
20. Northeast: Central Connecticut State
21. Ohio Valley: Eastern Illinois
22. Pac 10: Stanford
23. Patriot: Army
24. SEC: South Carolina
25. Southern: Western Carolina
26. Southland: Lamar
27. Southwestern: Texas Southern
28. Sun Belt: Middle Tennessee State
29. West Coast: Loyola Marymount
30. WAC: Rice
At-Large Berths (in no
particular order):
1. LSU
2. Georgia
3. Arkansas
4. Ole Miss
5. Vanderbilt
6. Florida
7. Tennessee
8. Florida State
9. Clemson
10. Virginia
11. NC State
12. North Carolina
13. Washington
14. Arizona
15. Cal State Fullerton
16. Arizona State
17. Southern Miss
18. Houston
19. Tulane
20. Texas A&M
21. Oklahoma
22. Texas Tech
23. Texas
24. Nebraska
25. Missouri
26. College of Charleston
27. Florida Atlantic
28. Birmingam Southern
29. Wichita state
30. UC Irvine
31. Mississippi State
32. St. Johns
33. UCLA
34. Miami
Close but no cigars:
- George Mason
- TCU
- Auburn
- Rutgers
Top eight national seeds:
1. Texas
2. Miami
3. Stanford
4. South Carolina
5. LSU
6. East Carolina
7. Georgia Tech
8. Rice
Other No. 1 seeds:
9. Arizona State
10. Cal State Fullerton
11. Georgia
12. Ole Miss
13. Florida State
14. Notre Dame
15. Virginia
16. Arkansas
Kinston, NC Regional:
1. East Carolina
2. North Carolina (reason being, the two teams have not played one
another during the season)
3. Coastal Carolina
4. Army
This was a lot of work,
but I enjoyed putting it together and I will let everyone else speculate
on the other 15 brackets. Until Monday, don't get stressed out, it will
not matter who stands in the eye of the Pirates way on the road to
Omaha.
If you
have a question or comment about the Pirates in particular or baseball
in general, fire your best pitch at Ol' Condo:
Sound off to Coach LeClair...
02.23.07 10:27 AM
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