Bracket Formula

Bradley Stewart created a bracket formula using a variety of statistics.  Last year the formula correctly picked Florida Gulf Coast into the Sweet Sixteen.

The formula's bracket has correctly picked the following upsets:

First Round:

Dayton over Ohio State
Harvard over Cincinnati
Tennessee over Massachusetts
Stephen F. Austin over VCU

Second Round:

Dayton over Syracuse
Connecticut over Villanova

Sweet 16:

Connecticut over Iowa State.



The formula's picks for the two Elite Eight Game's today are Connecticut and Michigan to both win.

Looks Can Be Decieving

The major Conference Tournaments start this week.  There are many teams who need to win to make the dance, while there are many teams that don't need to win and their still in.  But all you can do to try and get in the tournament is win.  Just keep winning.  So here are my sleepers for the conference tournaments.  Watch out!


American Athletic Conference

Southern Methodist Mustangs
Houston Cougars


ACC

Maryland Terrapins
Clemson Tigers
NC State Wolfpack

Big 12

Oklahoma State Cowboys
Baylor Bears
Texas Tech Red Raiders
West Virginia Moutaineers

Big Ten

Penn State Nittany Lions
Indiana Hoosiers

Pac-12

Oregon Ducks
Stanford Cardinal
California Golden Bears

SEC
The SEC is very inconsistant so I will break down which teams could get to where.  These are how far sleepers could get.

Semi-Finals
South Carolina Gamecocks
LSU Tigers

Finals
Arkansas Razorbacks
Vanderbilt Commodores
Ole Miss Rebels



Predictions

These are my conference tournament championship predictions.

American Athletic Conference

Louisville over Memphis

ACC

Duke over Maryland

Big 12

Oklahoma State over Baylor

Big Ten

Ohio State over Wisconsin

Pac-12

Arizona over Stanford

SEC

Florida over LSU

Experts' Pre-Conference Tournament Final Four Picks

This will be the last final four pick updates until the actual bracket comes out.

After Syracuse's three losses in four games, all three experts do not have them in the Final Four.  The only teams that are in all three experts' Final Four are Arizona and Florida.  Kansas is in Bradley Stewart's and Joe Smeltzer's final four.  Duke is in Joe Smeltzer's Final Four, Bradley Stewart says "Duke would definitly be my number five."  Ryan Stewart included two teams that neither Joe Smeltzer and Bradley Stewart had in theirs.  Those teams are the defending national champions Louisville and shocking Iowa State.  When asked about why he included the Cyclones, Ryan said "Because they score a lot of points and rebound like men."  Joe Smeltzer who included Wichita State in his earlier picks, dropped them.  None of the experts, included the 31-0 Shockers.