2010 Tournament Brackets/Pod projections

[Titan Q]

I put this on the CCIW board last night.  This is a post I made one year ago, on the day the brackets came out...

Massey ratings of the teams in the Wheaton/St. Thomas quad...

http://www.mratings.com/rate.php?lg=cb&yr=2009&sub=III&mid=6


#1 - St. Thomas
#2 - Wheaton
#3 - UW-Stevens Point
#4 - Puget Sound
#5 - UW-Platteville
#6 - UW-Whitewater
#7 - Wash U
#8 - Elmhurst
#9 - Whitworth
#25 - Lawrence
#28 - Cornell
#31 - Hope
#36 - Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
#87 - Aurora
#156 - Fontbonne

The entire Massey top 9 was in one quadrant...and #25 Lawrence nearly knocked off the Bears.  Here are Wash U's games in the bracket...

vs Lawrence (neutral) - W, 67-65 (trailed by 1 with :21 to play)
vs UW-Whitewater (neutral) - W, 73-70 (1-point game with :47 to play) - UWW beat Elmhurst in OT in Round 1
@ Wheaton - W, 55-52 (tied with 2:46 to play) - Wheaton needed OT to get by Platteville in Round 2
vs St. Thomas (neutral) - W, 79-64 (this was the only game not decided in the final minute)


The games in Salem (vs Guilford and Richard Stockton) were not competitive.

Bracket of Death, R.I.P.

[altor]

Since I brought it up...

Bracket Quarter     Mean MRating     S.D.
Upper Right             0.566       0.351
Lower Left              0.500       0.377
Lower Right             0.283       0.277
Upper Left              0.126       0.331

Field                   0.367       0.377

So, if I'm reading this right, what we can take from this is that the Lower Right and Upper Left aren't quite as good as the other two quarters, but they should be slightly more competitive.

[nwhoops1903]

Upper Left (1):

2. Williams

Lower Left (4):

4. Guilford
5. Whitworth
7. Eastern Mennonite
19. Wooster

Upper Right (3):

9. UW Stevens Point
15. UT- Dallas
16. Carthage

Lower Right (3):

14. St. Mary's
18. Randy Mac
20. F&M