2017 NCAA Tournament

[Gregory Sager]

If anybody has the ability to make a map of the US with the logo of each of the 64 teams represented in the Men's Bracket where their school is located that would be a very cool and useful visual to see where all these teams are traveling. I feel like it may be hard to accomplish this though so if it is too time consuming don't bother! Just inquiring...

EDIT: I just typed and sent this post. Hopefully you can read through the poor wording to see what I am getting at.

I tried my best    Hopefully this is of some use...you can click on it to make it bigger and use the scroll bar to move left and right.  I certainly understand that it might be hard to read, but many schools are in really close proximity.

Very good! Thanks All Star, almost as good as all of your brackets for the conference tourneys! 

As expected, it really does highlight the lack of (good bball) schools west of the Mississippi.

No need to qualify it, Smitty. Only 16% of D3 schools that have men's basketball programs are located west of the Mississippi. And 11% of this season's tourney field is on the left side of Old Man River. This is in stark contrast to the general U.S. population, 41% of which lives west of the Mississippi, demonstrating in part just how skewed D3 geography really is. (It's also grossly over-represented in New England and New York State, but that's another story.)

I'd argue that if the tourney does have a favorite this year, it's the decidedly-west-of-the-Mississippi Whitman Blues. I've seen 'em several times online, and if I had to lay down a bet on a team this March, it'd be on the Blues.

[Greek Tragedy]

That's a bold statement, Mr. Sager. I mean, if it's anyone, it's you that knows how hard it is to beat the same team FOUR times in the same season, let alone three! 

[Gregory Sager]

 

[AllStar]

Here's another chart of all the NCAA Tournament teams.     Hopefully I didn't screw anything up.

[HOPEful]

If anybody has the ability to make a map of the US with the logo of each of the 64 teams represented in the Men's Bracket where their school is located that would be a very cool and useful visual to see where all these teams are traveling. I feel like it may be hard to accomplish this though so if it is too time consuming don't bother! Just inquiring...

It gets really tricky in New England.

[AllStar]

If anybody has the ability to make a map of the US with the logo of each of the 64 teams represented in the Men's Bracket where their school is located that would be a very cool and useful visual to see where all these teams are traveling. I feel like it may be hard to accomplish this though so if it is too time consuming don't bother! Just inquiring...

It gets really tricky in New England.

Tremendous map!  Better than mine!

[Gregory Sager]

Nicely done, HOPEful!

[Greek Tragedy]

So did anyone notice only #19 Denison and #20 St. Norbert were the only 2 ranked teams not to make the tournament?

Also, no ranked teams play each other in the 1st round.

Is there a pod of death or bracket of death this year?

I haven't heard too many complaints about the matchups.

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

So did anyone notice only #19 Denison and #20 St. Norbert were the only 2 ranked teams not to make the tournament?

Also, no ranked teams play each other in the 1st round.

Is there a pod of death or bracket of death this year?

I haven't heard too many complaints about the matchups.

I think there is at least one top 25 team that doesn't make the tournament... there are certainly years that number could be hire if any of them stumble in the conference tournaments.

I don't think there is a bracket of death. I think the good teams are spread out around the country and the committee is doing their best to balance the brackets. Last time we really had one was in 2013 when it was unavoidable with single-round games (lose the ability to find a middle school to host and thus the radius is nearly 1000 miles for match-ups).

[Greek Tragedy]

Getting 23 out of 25 ranked teams is pretty high, I thought.

I think the bottom right is wide open. River Falls could be the #1 seed but they could lose to Bethel in the 1st round. Possible #2 seed Washington U is on the road, Wooster, Whitewater, the defending champs. Lots of teams that have the ability to come out of there.

[HOPEful]

Is there a pod of death or bracket of death this year?

I haven't heard too many complaints about the matchups.

I think this is the best bracket the committee has ever put out. Not a whole lot to complain about.

If I were to vote on a "bracket of death", I'd go upper right corner. Middlebury, Lycoming, Neumann, Nichols, Salisbury, Cabrini, Endicott... Neumann has to be a little bummed that their 25-2 record landed them one of the best guard tandems in the country in the first round (Echevarria and Bruton)... Lycoming can't love getting Tyheim Monroe in the first round either.

[AO]

Is there a pod of death or bracket of death this year?

I haven't heard too many complaints about the matchups.

I think this is the best bracket the committee has ever put out. Not a whole lot to complain about.

If I were to vote on a "bracket of death", I'd go upper right corner. Middlebury, Lycoming, Neumann, Nichols, Salisbury, Cabrini, Endicott... Neumann has to be a little bummed that their 25-2 record landed them one of the best guard tandems in the country in the first round (Echevarria and Bruton)... Lycoming can't love getting Tyheim Monroe in the first round either.

The bracket of death is the one with only one team in top ten? 

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Is there a pod of death or bracket of death this year?

I haven't heard too many complaints about the matchups.

I think this is the best bracket the committee has ever put out. Not a whole lot to complain about.

If I were to vote on a "bracket of death", I'd go upper right corner. Middlebury, Lycoming, Neumann, Nichols, Salisbury, Cabrini, Endicott... Neumann has to be a little bummed that their 25-2 record landed them one of the best guard tandems in the country in the first round (Echevarria and Bruton)... Lycoming can't love getting Tyheim Monroe in the first round either.

I'd pick that as the easiest one - maybe the most open.  Yeah, there are more legit contenders there than in other brackets, but that's because there aren't as many dominant teams.  I do think it's pretty well spread overall.  To me, the left side is tougher than the right, but there are championship contenders everywhere.

[Cards Fan]

From what I've seen from analyzing so far, here are some serious matches to keep an eye on:

Rochester vs Albertus Magnus
Eastern Connecticut vs MIT
Wooster vs North Central
Guilford vs Thomas More
Whitworth vs Claremont-MS
Skidmore vs New Jersey City
Hope vs UW Osh-Kosh

And every other game.... But those are the most deadlocked in my eyes.

[sac]

If anybody has the ability to make a map of the US with the logo of each of the 64 teams represented in the Men's Bracket where their school is located that would be a very cool and useful visual to see where all these teams are traveling. I feel like it may be hard to accomplish this though so if it is too time consuming don't bother! Just inquiring...

It gets really tricky in New England.

Wrong Bethel though.  The Bethel in Indiana is the NAIA Bethel.  The D3 Bethel is in Minnesota.