How I would seed the bracket

There is pretty much no chance that the committee will see it this way. Pythag has a lot more respect for the Big 10 than the RPI has, and it shows here with the Big 10 getting three teams on the top two seed lines. Surprisingly (to me anyway), the ACC would only get one.

In a WAB (or Implied Pythag) world, Nebraska would be safely in. Ditto for St. Mary’s. Marquette and Middle Tennessee would be the last teams in, while Oklahoma State would be the first team out.

Kansas as a #1 seed makes a lot more sense if you discount everything the Big 10 did. Duke and UNC would both move up to the #2 line as well. Of course, all of this is moot because RPI still rules the world. C’est la vie.

School	Seed
Virginia	1
Villanova	1
Michigan St.	1
Xavier	1
Kansas	2
Purdue	2
Michigan	2
Cincinnati	2
Duke	3
North Carolina	3
Tennessee	3
Gonzaga	3
West Virginia	4
Texas Tech	4
Clemson	4
Ohio St.	4
Auburn	5
Kentucky	5
Wichita St.	5
Arizona	5
Houston	6
Miami FL	6
Kansas St.	6
Arkansas	6
Nevada	7
TCU	7
Rhode Island	7
Seton Hall	7
Virginia Tech	8
Texas A&M	8
St. Bonaventure	8
Nebraska	8
Loyola Chicago	9
Saint Mary’s	9
Creighton	9
New Mexico St.	9
Florida	10
Providence	10
Oklahoma	10
North Carolina St.	10
Florida St.	11
Texas	11
Butler	11.1
Louisville	12.1
South Dakota St.	11
Middle Tennessee	12.1
Marquette	11.1
Murray St.	12
UNC Greensboro	12
Buffalo	12
San Diego St.	13
Montana	13
College of Charleston	13
Davidson	13
Stephen F. Austin	14
Bucknell	14
Marshall	14
Penn	14
Lipscomb	15
Wright St.	15
UMBC	15
Georgia St.	15
Cal St. Fullerton	16
Radford	16
Iona	16.1
Texas Southern	16.2
LIU Brooklyn	16.2
North Carolina Central	16.1
Oklahoma St.	Out
Missouri	Out
UCLA	Out
Baylor	Out
Mississippi St.	Out
Syracuse	Out
USC	Out
Notre Dame	Out