**February 1st 2024 Bracketology**

 February 1st 2024 Bracketology Updated 12:30 pm

Seed Power Team

1 1 Purdue

1 2 Houston

1 3 UConn*

1 4 Kansas

2 5 Arizona*

2 6 North Carolina*

2 7 Wisconsin*

2 8 Tennessee

3 9 Marquette

3 10 Duke

3 11 Iowa St.

3 12 Baylor

4 13 Creighton

4 14 Alabama*

4 15 Kentucky

4 16 Texas Tech*

5 17 Dayton

5 18 BYU

5 19 Clemson

5 20 Illinois

6 21 South Carolina

6 22 Utah St.*

6 23 Fla. Atlantic*

6 24 San Diego St.

7 25 Auburn

7 26 TCU

7 27 Northwestern

7 28 Oklahoma

8 29 Colorado St.

8 30 Utah

8 31 Nebraska

8 32 Mississippi St.

9 33 Ole Miss

9 34 Seton Hall

9 35 Boise St.

9 36 St. John's (NY)

10 37 New Mexico

10 38 Texas

10 39 Providence

10 40 Texas A&M

11a 41 Michigan St.

11a 42 Florida

11 43 Saint Mary's (CA)*

11b 44 Washington St.

11b 45 Memphis

11 46 Grand Canyon*

12 47 Indiana St.*

12 48 Richmond*

12 49 App State*

12 50 McNeese*

13 51 Cornell*

13 52 Samford*

13 53 UC Irvine*

13 54 Akron*

14 55 Louisiana Tech*

14 56 Vermont*

14 57 Drexel*

14 58 Morehead St.*

15 59 High Point*

15 60 Eastern Washington*

15 61 Colgate*

15 62 Quinnipiac*

16 63 Green Bay*

16 64 Norfolk St.*

16a 65 South Dakota St.*

16a 66 Southern*

16a 67 Central Connecticut*

16a 68 Eastern Kentucky*

Last Four In: Memphis, Washington St., Florida. Michigan St.

First Four Out: Butler, Virginia Tech, Cincinnati, Virginia

Next Four Out: Colorado, Nevada, Gonzaga, Oregon

Notes:

- Kansas State falls out of my bracket and isnt even in my first 8 out primarily because their NET is 81. No team with a NET above 79 as gotten an at-large bid so it is a non-starter for me unless you have absurd other metrics. Same goes for a record that is less than 2 games above .500 which included Villanova/Xavier.

- The Memphis freefall is something, now my last team in. The Tigers cant afford any more bad losses. The problem is that now that they have bad losses, a bad NET of 76, and mediocre metrics they also need to pick up some quality wins. However, in the AAC the schedule doesnt provide tons of opportunities. As of now, their remaining games in order from a quad perspective are: Q3, Q4, Q3, Q2, Q1, Q3, Q1, Q3, Q3, Q1

The quality games left are @ North Texas, @ SMU, FAU, and @ FAU.  Memphis has to win all the Q3/Q4 games IMO and probably find a way to split the 4 quality games left. We shall see.