I don't know why I feel less and less enthused about this with every passing Year. I think fattening up the field to 68 (a horrible decision, and I don't care who doesn't want to know it) removed teams that would have been on "the bubble" and, frankly, didn't do enough during the regular season to warrant inclusion in the NCAA Tournament. I also think are now so many bracketologists that a groupthink has set in and solidified. I don't know how much variance is now left year after year because it feels as though all these self-appointed "experts" have, or at least think they have, understood the process of selecting teams and now all see that process the same way.
With that said, I need to publish The Bracket Matrix's aggregated tourney field now, even though I don't think it has synthesized VCU's Win over George Mason in the Atlantic-10 Championship Game that finished just now. I know
The Bracket Matrix will update after the Big Ten and American Athletic Conferences complete their tournaments, but I won't wait.
As of press time, these are the teams on the bubble, in order of inclusion:
- Actual Last Teams In: Utah St., Oklahoma, Arkansas, West Virginia
- Play-In Games: Vanderbilt, San Diego St., Indiana, Texas
- Actually, They Should Be Called The LAST Teams Out: Boise St., Xavier, North Carolina, Ohio St., Cal-Irvine
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