Joe Lunardi’s latest Selection Sunday bracket and “Bracket Math” are out Sunday morning. Within the Big East the only real movement since yesterday is that Butler falls off the 6 line and the Bulldogs are now a 7 seed. There’s also an intriguing potential matchup for Providence and an old head coach of theirs. One other thing to check out below is that, per a suggestion on Twitter, I have included the percentage of teams in the field from each conference in the “Conference Breakdown” portion of this post.

Here is a breakdown of where the 6 Big East teams fall on the seed lines Lunardi’s latest bracket:

• Villanova – #1 seed in East vs. #16 Lafayette – AQ for Big East
• Georgetown- #6 seed in East vs. #11 Ole Miss/Temple
• Providence – #6 seed in West vs. #11 Texas
• Butler- #7 seed in Midwest vs. #10 Purdue
• Xavier – #7 seed in East vs. #10 Davidson
• St. John’s – #9 seed in South vs. #8 Virginia Commonwealth

Bracket Math

ALL CAPS means they are the presumed AQ in their conference

BOLD means they have already clinched the AQ for their league

Italics means “Last Four In” – 69-72 are “First Four Out”

1-KENTUCKY	2-VILLANOVA	3-Duke	4-WISCONSIN
8-Kansas	7-GONZAGA	6-ARIZONA	5-Virginia
9-IOWA STATE	10-NOTRE DAME	11-Maryland	12-Oklahoma
16-Louisville	15-NO. IOWA	14-Baylor	13-North Carolina
17-Wichita St	18-Arkansas	19-West Virginia	20-Utah
24-Providence	23-Georgetown	22-Michigan St	21-SMU
25-Butler	26-Xavier	27-Oregon	28-Iowa
32-N.C. State	31-San Diego St	30-Cincinnati	29-Va. Common.
33-Ohio State	34-St. John’s	35-DAYTON	36-Oklahoma St
40-Georgia	39-Brigham Young	38-Davidson	37-Purdue
41-Texas	42-Colorado St	43-S.F. AUSTIN	44-Temple
48-BUFFALO	47-Boise State	46-Ole Miss	45-Louisiana St
49-WOFFORD	50-HARVARD	51-VALPARAISO	52-GEORGIA ST
56-NORTHEASTERN	55-N. MEXICO ST	54-WYOMING	53-U.C. IRVINE
57-ALBANY	58-UAB	59-N. DAKOTA ST	60-EAST. WASH.
64-TEXAS SO.	63-NO. FLORIDA	62-COAST. CAR.	61-BELMONT
65-LAFAYETTE	66-MANHATTAN	67-RO. MORRIS	68-HAMPTON
72-Old Dominion	71-Miami (Fla.)	70-Ucla	69-Indiana
73-Connecticut	74-Murray St

Conference Breakdown

• Big 12 (7) – 70% of league
• ACC (6) – 40% of league
• Big Ten (6) – 50% of league
• Big East (6) – 60% of league
• Mountain West (4) – 36.4% of league
• SEC (5) – 35.7% of league
• American (3) – 27.3% of league
• Atlantic 10 (3) – 21.4% of league
• Pac-12 (3) – 25% of league
• Missouri Valley (2) – 20% of league
• West Coast (2) – 25% of league

The 2015 Bracket Matrix

BracketMatrix.com is a very informative site and I think it adds value to the bracketology discussion so I’ll be featuring a section in these bracketology updates with information like average seed, number of brackets Providence appears in and a few other things. The appeal of BracketMatrix.com is that they are sort of like a composite bracket.

• Bracket Matrix Average Seed for Providence: 5.91
• Numbers of Brackets Providence appears in: 100/100
• Best Seed: 4
• Worst Seed: 8
• Last updated: 3/14/15 10:40pm

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