Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Never too Early for Brackets

I stumbled across some articles on Yahoo and Rivals. Rivals has an early predictions bracket for which teams will make it and what seed they will be. They have a few more articles about teams on the rise and bubble teams. I always love predictions on the NCAA Tournament, it just gets me more excited and eager for March Madness.

I would like to give a few predictions and some insight myself.

Darkhorse Final Four Candidates you could easily pass up:
Arizona
Washington St.
Butler
Xavier
Louisville
Gonzaga
Marquette

My current Final Four Predictions: *(Subject to Change)
Memphis
Michigan St.
UCLA
Georgetown

Mid-Majors to keep an eye on:
Butler
Xavier
Drake
Rhode Island
UMass
Dayton
St. Mary's
VCU
Davidson
Oral Roberts

3 comments:

twins15 said...

I think people are forgetting about Davidson a bit because they lost all of their big time non-conference games, but they'll be interesting. All that experience, a star in Curry... they'll be dangerous. This year's Winthrop, methinks.

R. LeBaron said...

Washington State may stagger to the finish a bit, but come Tournament time, they'll be a team no one wants to face.

Neil Joshi said...

I agree with twins15 about Davidson, but I dunno if Georgetown has it in them to get to another Final Four. They are a solid 2-loss team, but they haven't been playing as well as they did a year ago. College Basketball is pretty deep this season, and I think the Hoyas will be cut down early this year.