Bracketology/RPI

Joe Lunardi’s Latest Bracket Math Released

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Joe Lunardi released an updated bracket a week ago today, the ESPN guru’s first bracketology release since the season started. On Monday night, Lunardi released his latest Bracket Math and Providence, as well as a few other Big East teams, had good showings on the seed list. Joey Brackets had both Xavier and Villanova as 3 seeds last week and that hasn’t changed this week, except that the Musketeers have jumped ahead of the Wildcats on the seed list.

Bracket Math

Seed Line
1 1-MICH ST 2-OKLA 3-Kansas 4-UK
2 8-UVA 7-Maryland 6-Iowa St 5-Duke
3 9-Purdue 10-Xavier 11-NOVA 12-Unc
4 16-Baylor 15-Wvu 14-Miami 13-Louisville
5 17-Butler 18-Prov 19-ZONA 20-CINCI
6 24-ZAGS 23-TexA&M 22-Vandy 21-Oregon
7 25-Pitt 26-UConn 27-Nd 28-DAYTON
8 32-Gtown 31-Ucla 30-Iowa 29-GWash
9 33-Texas 34-Utah 35-Indiana 36-Syracuse
10 40-Florida St 39-SoCal 38-SCarolina 37-Florida
11 41-Wisc 42-Michigan 43-VALPO 44-Cal
12 47-Unlv 46-WICHITA 45-Vcu
First 4 Out Marquette Arizona St Tulsa Richmond
Next 4 Out New Mexico Oregon St Colorado No Iowa

Notes: CAPS are AQ’s – Spots 48-68 would be filled by auto qualifiers.

Xavier has been excellent to start the season and Chris Mack’s bunch currently owns the #1 spot in the RPI rankings. Villanova basically flip-flopped with the Musketeers after their loss to Oklahoma in Pearl Harbor, but the Wildcats stuck on the 3 line for Lunardi. Butler and Providence remain on the 5 line and Georgetown remains an 8 seed — the same spots each team was in last week for Joey Brackets. Marquette moves up to the First 4 Out category and are the very first team OUT of the field of 68 for Lunardi right now. Michigan State stays at the top and Arizona slipped down from the 4 line to the 5 and were passed over by both Butler and Providence.

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