WED 3/13: MTSU lost Sunday night in the Sun Belt semifinals. That is a really bad loss for the Blue Raiders, and I have them out of the tournament because of it. Today is a big day for the bubble teams. I have Cincinnati, Colorado, Villanova, and Boise St all in the field of 68, but all need to win their games today. Especially Boise State, who plays San Diego State tonight. I also have Providence, Arizona State, and Stanford out of the field. All three of those schools play today and must win.

Every year I try to correctly predict who will make it into the tournament. I will give you my final predictions on Sunday before the selection show. But until then, I will provide a daily update on who I feel would make it at this moment. In the last five years I’ve missed 1, 1, 0, 2, and 1. So here we go:

1 seeds
Duke, Gonzaga, Indiana, and Louisville

North Carolina- 7 seed
NC State- 8 seed
Davidson- 13 seed

Last four in: La Salle, Wichita St, St. Mary’s, and Boise St.

Others considered: Virginia, Ole Miss, Xavier, Iowa, UMass, Alabama, Washington, Stanford, Maryland, Arkansas, Akron, S Miss, MTSU, La Tech, BYU, Arizona St, N Iowa, Providence, Baylor, UNCC.

Single bid leagues: Colonial, Big West, America East, A-Sun, Big Sky, Big South, C-USA, Ivy, Horizon, MAAC, MAC, MEAC, Northeast, Ohio Valley, Patriot, Southland, Southern, Summit, SWAC, Sun Belt, and WAC.

A-10: VCU, St. Louis, La Salle, Butler, and Temple.

ACC: Duke, Miami, UNC, and NC State.

Big 12: Kansas, K State, Ok St, Okla, and Iowa St.

Big East: L’ville, G’town, Marq, ND, Pitt, Cuse, Nova, and Cincy.

Big Ten: IU, Mich, Mich St, Ohio St, Wisc, Ill, and Minn.

M Valley: Creighton and Wich St

Mtn West: New Mex, UNLV, Colo St, SD St, and Boise St.

PAC 12: Oregon, UCLA, Cal, Arizona, and Colorado.

SEC: Florida, Mizzu, Tenn, and Kentucky.

West Coast: Zags and St. Mary’s.

It’ll change tomorrow so stay tuned!

TZ