Providence losing to Creighton in the Big East Tournament quarterfinals on Thursday night broke a streak of three straight trips to the semifinals. One streak that will continue is their NCAA Tournament appearance streak. Providence will be an 11 seed in the East region in a rematch of last year’s First Round game with USC. The Friars and Trojans will face off in Dayton as part of the First Four. The game tips at 9:10pM ET on Wednesday.
Here are the seeding scenarios for those that aren’t locked in:
3/4 seed: If Providence wins tonight at Creighton, they will be the 3 seed playing 6 seed Marquette on Thursday night at 9:30pm and Xavier will be the 4 seed playing 5 seed St. John’s on Thursday afternoon at 2:30pm. If Providence loses tonight at Creighton, Xavier will be the 3 seed playing 6 seed Marquette and Providence will be the 4 seed playing 5 seed St. John’s.
9/10 seed: If Butler loses to Seton Hall today, they would have the same conference record, 3-15, as DePaul but DePaul would be the 9 seed due to a 1-1 record against St. John’s (DePaul and Butler split their own season series 1-1 so tiebreakers goes to record against the highest team. Both teams are 0-2 vs. the top 4 in the league but DePaul is 1-1 against 5 seed St. John’s and Butler is 0-2 against them). If Butler wins today against Seton Hall, they will be the 9 seed by virtue of having 1 more league win than DePaul.
Heading into Saturday’s matchup at the Cintas Center against Xavier, Joe Lunardi’s latest bracket release today has PC as an 11 seed in the Midwest region playing LSU in a First Round play-in game.
BracketMatrix.com is showing PC in 65 brackets out of 67 possible brackets with an average seed of 11.
Heading into tonight’s matchup against the Marquette Golden Eagles, Joe Lunardi’s latest bracket release today has PC as a 10 seed in the South region playing Texas. He has also moved them from “Last Four In” to “Last Four Byes”.
BracketMatrix.com is showing PC in 64 brackets out of 67 possible brackets with an average seed of 11. Last week they were only in 57 brackets with an average seed of 12. The latest update on this is 1/29/14 7:29pm.
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