Who Wants To Dance ? - 2021

[Akzag]

Atlantic 10 3rd - 14th

sigh - the A10 has 14 ... teams in league and tourny.

Should (?) get two bids

[Akzag]

Southeastern 10th-14

14 teams . Seeding TBD. Unlike their gridiron brethren, no conference divisions.

Recent year's fields seem to support a growing SEC presence. Could be 6 this year, just not Kentucky ( at least as an at-large )

[Akzag]

American 11-14

11 team league and tourny.

2-3 bid league

[Akzag]

Big Ten 10-14

14 teams in league, and in the tourny, and bids. just kidding. I think.


While it isn't a rule, I like the must be .500 in conference to get a bid. But it's also a pretty intuitive cut off point.

#8 Rutgers 9-10
#9 Michigan State 8-10
#10 Indiana 7-11

I figure that they each have another pair of games before their tourny - need to win. That would only get Indy to 9-11. As a 7 through 10 seed, they would get an opening round game in the same grouping 7-10, 8-9. Those winners get the #1 and #2 seeds next. A win against either of those teams and you are in, in either case. So I'm saying seeds 8-9 can get in with two more regular season wins and an opening round victory in their tourny ( against each other, literally a play-in game ). Indiana needs four wins.

I'm going to say 8 get in.

[Akzag]

Atlantic 10 3rd - 14th

sigh - the A10 has 14 ... teams in league and tourny.

Should (?) get two bids

Oof ... preseason buzz, early season darling Richmond takes one on the chin losing to Duquesne in the 2nd round. It's going to be a long offseason.

Another 2nd round game later today pits Rhode Island against Dayton.

St Bonaventure, St Louis, Virginia Commonwealth, and Davidson all loom ahead having received byes into the quarters.

[Akzag]

Atlantic Sun 4th-7th

9 team league, #8 Jacksonville is not in the tournament field

#1 seed Liberty 11-2
#2 Bellarmine 10-3 is in the middle of their transition to Div I. and will be ineligible to advance if they win the tourny

Bellarmine loses to Stetson. Lipscomb falls to Fla Gulf Coast . Liberty and No. Alabama also advance

[Akzag]

Big South semis are Thursday, final on the 7th

#4 seed UNC Asheville lost to #5 Longwood which will face #1 Winthrop

#2 Radford will face #3 Campbell

Winthrop and Campbell advance to meet in championship

[Akzag]

America East 2/27-3/13

Ten team league. Maine is not participating in tourny. Actual conference games completed range from 8 - 16 games

#1 UMBC and #2 Vermont each finished at 10-4



Semis ;

#4Hartford v UMBC

UMass-Lowell v Stony Brook winner v New Hampshire to decide who plays Vermont. I'm having trouble determining who advanced through the quarters.

I guess they re-seed things in the AmEast ... semis on 03/06 will pit UMBC v UMass-Lowell and Vermont v Hartford

[kitzbuel]

Pac12 10-13

the bracket I found only has slots for 11 teams ... did Cal opt out of the conf tourney?

is 4-5 bids realistic ?

Arizona gave itself a post season banning this year. Bad Arizona.

[Akzag]

Arizona gave itself a post season banning this year. Bad Arizona.

Thanks, kitz. I should have known that. I'm still a little surprised they aren't participating in their tourny. Probably for the best, especially with the allegations pending.

[Akzag]

Bellarmine loses to Stetson. Lipscomb falls to Fla Gulf Coast . Liberty and No. Alabama also advance

Well, this is interesting. Liberty beat Stetson in one semi, No. Alabama defeated Fla. Gulf Coast in the other. No. Alabama is another of those schools transitioning to Div I and are ineligible for the tournament, so ... Liberty beats the crowd and is our first ticket punched, before the final is even played.

[Akzag]

via a Matt Norlander tweet - ten conference tournaments are under way and a total of four teams have been eliminated so far because of COVID.

I just want to get these next two weeks over with, without injuries or other incidents popping up.

[Akzag]

another Nordlander tweet reported that LMU's mulleted-one, Leaupepe, was in a walking boot prior to LMU's victory over the Dons. The Lions played seven guys. LMU plays SMC Saturday, winner gets Zags on Monday.

on the other side of the bracket, the Broncos beat Pacific and will next play the Waves with the victor advancing to joust with BYU.

[Akzag]

Missouri Valley's Drake advances to semis when No. Iowa was eliminated by COVID

Drake v Missouri State

Loyola Chicago v Indiana State

[Akzag]

15 teams in the ACC ... 5 games scheduled tomorrow - 6th ( one of which has already been canceled ) . First round of their tournament is the 9th. I never like that set up.

Sometimes ... a lot of times, I am thankful of the schedule that we keep. Sure, there are ten or so days between the Vegas championship and the first round games but I'd rather have the extra days than the quick turnaround and potentially playing ( a max of ) five games in five days. For those playing the first round, that is their penalty for their poor conference record. But somebody isn't playing Saturday and is getting that extra rest.