Way Too Early 2020 Bracketology
After last night's title game, I figured it would be fun to take a look at what next season is going to look like. This is obviously a very early draft- in the next few weeks, a lot of coaching changes will happen and a lot of players will transfer and declare for the draft. I have made some rough guesses about player retention here, but I don't pretend to be someone who follows the NBA draft super closely. I relied heavily on T-Rank's 2020 projections for this exercise.
Unsurprisingly, most of the teams in this projection made the field this past season. The highest ranked teams who didn't make the tournament this year are Arizona, who returns most of their production from this year and adds 2 top 100 recruits, Notre Dame, who was massively injury-riddled this year, and Missouri, who brings back most of their rotation including possibly Jontay Porter.
In the conference breakdown, one thing that stood out to me was the Pac-12 only having two bids. There's a decent number of Pac-12 teams I considered but didn't select, like Colorado, UCLA and Arizona State, but to have only 2 teams projected into the field again is pretty shocking. Granted, they're both decently high seeds, and Oregon should be a national championship contender. But the Pac-12 is still lacking massively behind the other power conferences.
On the other hand, the Big Ten has 9 teams in the field and I seriously considered both Minnesota and Rutgers as well. 9 of the T-Rank projected top 28 hail from the Big Ten, including teams like Illinois and Penn State that were near the bottom of the conference this year.
Things will be pretty quiet here for the next few months, until I get to some preseason college football coverage in the summer.
1: Michigan State, Virginia, Duke, Michigan
2: Kansas, Auburn, Louisville, Kentucky
3: Gonzaga, Oregon, Marquette, Florida
4: Purdue, Texas Tech, Villanova, Houston
5: Wisconsin, St. Mary's, Tennessee, Baylor
6: Ohio State, VCU, Arizona, Florida State
7: Missouri, Notre Dame, Iowa, North Carolina
8: Cincinnati, Maryland, Seton Hall, Iowa State
9: Illinois, Providence, Mississippi State, Memphis
10: Georgia, Oklahoma, North Carolina State, LSU
11: Georgetown, Utah State, New Mexico State, (Penn State/Creighton)
12: (Texas/Wichita State), Harvard, Western Kentucky, East Tennessee State
13: Liberty, Northern Iowa, UC Irvine, Belmont
14: South Alabama, Ball State, Vermont, Oakland
15: American, Northeastern, North Dakota State, Iona
16: Radford, Sam Houston State, (Grambling State/Northern Colorado), (St. Francis PA/Norfolk State)
First Four Out: West Virginia, Dayton, Xavier, Rutgers
Next Four Out: Miami (FL), Colorado, Alabama, TCU
Unsurprisingly, most of the teams in this projection made the field this past season. The highest ranked teams who didn't make the tournament this year are Arizona, who returns most of their production from this year and adds 2 top 100 recruits, Notre Dame, who was massively injury-riddled this year, and Missouri, who brings back most of their rotation including possibly Jontay Porter.
In the conference breakdown, one thing that stood out to me was the Pac-12 only having two bids. There's a decent number of Pac-12 teams I considered but didn't select, like Colorado, UCLA and Arizona State, but to have only 2 teams projected into the field again is pretty shocking. Granted, they're both decently high seeds, and Oregon should be a national championship contender. But the Pac-12 is still lacking massively behind the other power conferences.
On the other hand, the Big Ten has 9 teams in the field and I seriously considered both Minnesota and Rutgers as well. 9 of the T-Rank projected top 28 hail from the Big Ten, including teams like Illinois and Penn State that were near the bottom of the conference this year.
Things will be pretty quiet here for the next few months, until I get to some preseason college football coverage in the summer.
1: Michigan State, Virginia, Duke, Michigan
2: Kansas, Auburn, Louisville, Kentucky
3: Gonzaga, Oregon, Marquette, Florida
4: Purdue, Texas Tech, Villanova, Houston
5: Wisconsin, St. Mary's, Tennessee, Baylor
6: Ohio State, VCU, Arizona, Florida State
7: Missouri, Notre Dame, Iowa, North Carolina
8: Cincinnati, Maryland, Seton Hall, Iowa State
9: Illinois, Providence, Mississippi State, Memphis
10: Georgia, Oklahoma, North Carolina State, LSU
11: Georgetown, Utah State, New Mexico State, (Penn State/Creighton)
12: (Texas/Wichita State), Harvard, Western Kentucky, East Tennessee State
13: Liberty, Northern Iowa, UC Irvine, Belmont
14: South Alabama, Ball State, Vermont, Oakland
15: American, Northeastern, North Dakota State, Iona
16: Radford, Sam Houston State, (Grambling State/Northern Colorado), (St. Francis PA/Norfolk State)
First Four Out: West Virginia, Dayton, Xavier, Rutgers
Next Four Out: Miami (FL), Colorado, Alabama, TCU
Big Ten: 9
SEC: 8
ACC: 7
Big 12: 6
Big East: 6
American: 4
Pac-12: 2
West Coast: 2
SEC: 8
ACC: 7
Big 12: 6
Big East: 6
American: 4
Pac-12: 2
West Coast: 2
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