Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Bracketology Part 2

Hi There. Well today we continue a look at the brackets in the South and West regions. Starting with the South the top four seeds are Memphis, Texas, Stanford, and Pittsburgh. Memphis maybe the weakest of the four Number 1 seeds but with the region they're in they could go to the final four. Pittsburgh played over their head in the Big East tournament winning the whole thing, but they've been snake bit by injuries and it will catch up with them. Stanford needs better guard play to compliment the Lopez twins up front. There's not a whole lot of sleeper teams in the bracket, maybe Marquette. People are talking up Temple after they won the A-10, I think they are a year away.
Now for the West where its UCLA, Duke, Xavier and UConn. UCLA is scary good. Duke is overrated and they live by the 3 and die by the 3. As for Xavier remember they play in the A-10 where up until 2 weeks ago the so-called experts had only 1 team from the league making the field of 64. One thing about Xavier, they produce coaches. Pete Gilhen, Skip Prosser and now Sean Miller. Last but not least is UConn who has gotten better throughout the year. Two sleeper teams: Drake and Purdue. Drake surprised everybody as they were picked 9th in the Missouri Valley and Keno Davis should be a contender for national coach of the year. Player for the Bulldogs whose name you'll hear a lot: Adam Emmenecker. Purdue is well coached too and contended for the Big 10 title. However UCLA is cream of the crop with Darren Collison and Kevin Love leading the way. My final four choices: UCLA, Memphis, Tennessee and Wisconsin. That's two one seeds, a two and a three...Leccese out.

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