Okay folks, this is it!! Selection Sunday is less than six months away!! We are down to crunch time!!
Posted by John Stalica…
The bracket below represents a combination of the preseason USA Today Top 25 poll and other under-the-radar conferences that have announced their preseason picks to win their respective conferences. For conferences that haven’t made their selections yet, we took the highest rated team from the comprehensive 1-351 list from CBSSports.com (click here). We will also update the bracket when we get the preseason AP Top 25 Poll and will update in the event that a preseason pick to win a conference is not listed below. If you’re also wondering why the Midwest Region says 31 and the other regions say 35, that is the total composite score of the top 4 seeds of each region (a variance of up to 5 is permitted).
Editor’s Note – The East and the West Regions should be paired up together since Duke is the #1 overall team and Kentucky is #4. As for the Midwest and South Regions, Kansas is #2 overall and Villanova is currently #3 overall.
Why did we do this?? Well, we got sick of just having a blank BRACKETOLOGY PAGE that’s why!!
*Also note that the bracketing rules dictate that the Michigan/Pittsburgh play-in game had to be flipped with Chattanooga. Not only could Maryland and Michigan could not play in the first round, we couldn’t resist a potential first-round Backyard Brawl!