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Editor's note: Bracketology will return on a regular basis in early January.

Here is the team-by-team breakdown of the first bracket of the season. Here we discuss the No. 11 through No. 16 seeds in the bracket. Click here for teams 40-21 and teams 20-1.

65. Jackson State: Anyone who tells you they know the identity of the 2007 SWAC winner is either psychic or just plain nuts. The SWAC is pretty consistently the weakest conference in Division I and its champion is always a prime candidate for the dreaded "play-in" game. Jackson State, which hasn't seen the inside of the NCAA bracket since 2000, is my preseason pick this season. Why? The Tigers' best player -- and quite likely the top performer in the conference -- is a high-scoring swingman named Trey Johnson. How can anyone pick against a name like that (even if the conference hasn't won an NCAA game since 1993)?

64. Albany: The Great Danes have three starters returning from the first NCAA Tournament team in school history, including 2006 America East Player of the Year Jamar Wilson. Albany also gave top-seeded UConn a scare in a first-round contest last March. This season, we think Albany will need to win an opening-round game to advance to the main bracket. With a solid win over Bucknell already in their pocket, these Danes are great (or at least good) enough to do just that.

63. Robert Morris: Mark Schmidt, the one-time Xavier assistant, has done a nice job in turning the Colonials into a first-division program in the Northeast Conference. Seven-foot freshman Bas Rozendaal is an especially intriguing prospect for this level, and RMU's overall size gives it a slight edge over a typically balanced NEC field. Robert Morris last made the tourney in 1992 and has won just a single NCAA game in its history.

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