As some of you know from the sabre, I do bracketology through the season and my latest brackets will show up here:
http://raleighwxmodels.com/awhuffma/bracketology/bracketology2023.html
My 1st bracket of the season! I will post below in case you dont want to click. I will update once or twice a week less frequent early in the season more frequent once we get to February and beyond.
| Seed |
Power |
Team |
| 1 |
1 |
Kansas |
| 1 |
2 |
Arizona |
| 1 |
3 |
Houston |
| 1 |
4 |
Purdue |
| 2 |
5 |
UConn |
| 2 |
6 |
Alabama |
| 2 |
7 |
Tennessee |
| 2 |
8 |
UCLA |
| 3 |
9 |
Kansas St. |
| 3 |
10 |
Texas |
| 3 |
11 |
Gonzaga |
| 3 |
12 |
Arkansas |
| 4 |
13 |
Virginia |
| 4 |
14 |
TCU |
| 4 |
15 |
Iowa St. |
| 4 |
16 |
Baylor |
| 5 |
17 |
San Diego St. |
| 5 |
18 |
Ohio St. |
| 5 |
19 |
Indiana |
| 5 |
20 |
Xavier |
| 6 |
21 |
Miami (FL) |
| 6 |
22 |
Duke |
| 6 |
23 |
Wisconsin |
| 6 |
24 |
Missouri |
| 7 |
25 |
Marquette |
| 7 |
26 |
Providence |
| 7 |
27 |
North Carolina |
| 7 |
28 |
Rutgers |
| 8 |
29 |
Illinois |
| 8 |
30 |
West Virginia |
| 8 |
31 |
Pittsburgh |
| 8 |
32 |
Utah |
| 9 |
33 |
Creighton |
| 9 |
34 |
NC State |
| 9 |
35 |
Col. of Charleston |
| 9 |
36 |
Kentucky |
| 10 |
37 |
New Mexico |
| 10 |
38 |
Virginia Tech |
| 10 |
39 |
Mississippi St. |
| 10 |
40 |
Saint Mary’s (CA) |
| 11 |
41 |
Oklahoma St. |
| 11 |
42 |
Fla. Atlantic |
| 11a |
43 |
Auburn |
| 11a |
44 |
Nevada |
| 11a |
45 |
Northwestern |
| 11a |
46 |
Sam Houston |
| 12 |
47 |
Kent St. |
| 12 |
48 |
Southern Miss. |
| 12 |
49 |
Utah St. |
| 12 |
50 |
Oral Roberts |
| 13 |
51 |
Liberty |
| 13 |
52 |
Iona |
| 13 |
53 |
Dayton |
| 13 |
54 |
Utah Valley |
| 14 |
55 |
UMass Lowell |
| 14 |
56 |
UC Santa Barbara |
| 14 |
57 |
Indiana St. |
| 14 |
58 |
Cornell |
| 15 |
59 |
Longwood |
| 15 |
60 |
UNC-G |
| 15 |
61 |
Eastern Washington |
| 15 |
62 |
Colgate |
| 16 |
63 |
No. Kentucky |
| 16 |
64 |
NC Central |
| 16a |
65 |
Texas A&M CC |
| 16a |
66 |
Southern |
| 16a |
67 |
Eastern Illinois |
| 16a |
68 |
Fairlegh Dickinson |
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Thanks for this! Curious which other ACC teams you have on or near the bubble?
As of this moment in my own thinking. I have 7 teams in from the ACC as of yesterday
UVA 4 seed
Miami, Duke 6 seed
UNC 7 seed
Pitt 8 seed
NC State 9 seed
Va Tech 10 seed
At this point in the season with only half a season under our belt there is a lot of spread in the bracketologist as we just dont have enough data points yet to really solidify things. The unfortunate reality for the ACC is that Q1/Q2 win opportunities are going to be fleeting and there are plenty of Q3/Q4 loss opportunities out there. In the Big 12 the lowest NET team is Oklahoma at 61! That means at the moment all games anyone plays is in either Q1 or Q2! The Big 10 only has two teams outside the NET top 75 Nebraska at 85 and Minnesota at 237. The ACC has 6 of its 15 teams outside the NET top 100. It just means that the Big 12/10 bubble teams just need to keep their overall records like 3 or more games above .500 and they will likely be in over the ACC.
So all that to say is that I have 7 teams in right now from the ACC, but we likely end up with less than that.
With that said, outside those 7 ACC teams, as of yesterday, I hade Wake Forest as the 3rd team out, Clemson as 9th team out.
In my opinion, I think the ACC will get 5 to 6 teams in. I think UVA, Duke, Miami, and UNC are in pretty good shape if they just do what they are supposed to do. Thats 4.
I think we get 1 to 2 more at the end of the day fro Pitt, Clemson, Wake Forest, NC State, Va Tech. If I had to pick the most likely as of now, I would go with Pitt and Va Tech.
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