Bracket math: Crunching the numbers

Saturday, March 14, 2009 | Print Entry

Posted by Joe Lunardi

Editor's note: This file was updated on Saturday, March 14, 11:59 p.m. ET.

Time to sleep on our final evaluations. On the top line, there are five teams with legitimate No. 1 seed profiles. This means either Memphis or UConn will be a No. 2 seed (hardly the end of the world).

At the cut line, I can make plausible cases for and against any of the seven teams hoping for what I think are three remaining at-large slots. I ultimately went with Saint Mary's over San Diego State for the last at-large based upon the Gaels' neutral court win over the Aztecs.  
 

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