***Februrary 19th 2024 Bracketology***

 ***February 19th 2024 Bracketology***

Seed Power Team

1 1 UConn*

1 2 Purdue*

1 3 Houston*

1 4 Arizona*

2 5 North Carolina*

2 6 Tennessee

2 7 Marquette

2 8 Kansas

3 9 Alabama*

3 10 Baylor

3 11 Iowa St.

3 12 Duke

4 13 San Diego St.*

4 14 Illinois

4 15 Creighton

4 16 Auburn

5 17 Wisconsin

5 18 Dayton*

5 19 Texas Tech

5 20 Clemson

6 21 Kentucky

6 22 Colorado St.

6 23 Florida

6 24 Michigan St.

7 25 Saint Mary's (CA)*

7 26 Oklahoma

7 27 BYU

7 28 South Carolina

8 29 Utah St.

8 30 Washington St.

8 31 Northwestern

8 32 Virginia

9 33 Boise St.

9 34 Fla. Atlantic

9 35 TCU

9 36 Nebraska

10 37 Texas

10 38 Nevada

10 39 Grand Canyon*

10 40 New Mexico

11 41 Butler

11 42 Mississippi St.

11a 43 Utah

11a 44 Ole Miss

11b 45 Texas A&M

11b 46 Providence

12 47 Indiana St.*

12 48 McNeese*

12 49 South Fla.*

12 50 App State*

13 51 Samford*

13 52 Yale*

13 53 Akron*

13 54 UC Irvine*

14 55 Louisiana Tech*

14 56 Vermont*

14 57 Charleston*

14 58 Morehead St.*

15 59 Oakland*

15 60 High Point*

15 61 Eastern Washington*

15 62 Colgate*

16 63 Quinnipiac*

16 64 Southern*

16a 65 Norfolk St.*

16a 66 South Dakota St.*

16b 67 Eastern Kentucky*

16b 68 Merrimack*

Last Four In: Providence, Texas A&M, Ole Miss, Utah

First Four Out: Cincinnati, Seton Hall, Wake Forest, Gonzaga

Next Four Out: Colorado, Villanova, Oregon, Pittsburgh

Notes:

The teams in my bracket stayed the same as the Friday update. It is getting hard to sift the bottom of the bracket. Ole Miss is my third team in and they have good resume metrics (KPI=26, SOR=21), but the NET is mediocre at 65, the performance metrics are quite bad (average of 71.5). They have 3 Q1 wins and 2Q2 wins which isnt great but not terrible, and no bad losses. So it will be difficult to get in if they dont get hot. Texas A&M is 6-5 in Q1 which is great and 2-1 in Q2 but they have 4 Q3 losses! Arkansas comes to town this week in the last chance for a bad loss on the resume pre SEC tournament, a loss there could be too much to overcome. Providence has no bad losses 4 Q1 wins, 3 Q2 wins, and ok metrics. The NET isnt great at 59. Seton Hall has 5 Q1 wins, 2 Q2 wins but 2 Q3 losses. Their resume metrics are better than Providence, but the NET is worse at 63 with the aforementioned 2 bad losses. They are another interesting case. Cincy has a classic mediocre power conference resume but could go either way. Wake Forest lost again this weekend but by virtue of Florida moving into the top 30 they now have a Q1 win and 4 Q2 wins with no bad losses and pretty good metrics. They probably still need to add a couple of Q1 wins. Gonzaga is going to have to likely win out and avoid a bad loss at the WCC tournament to get in. Although winning out but losing to St. Marys at the end of the reg season and again in the WCC tourny could also be enough.

From hear out, I may post more than two brackets a week depending on my time.