Ok, we're in the last week of the regular season, big games and all that for seeding implications and who is in and out of the tourney. So of course, I started looking at numbers and playing around with things and well, it might be contrary to what some others say, but here's how I think the seedings should be made up(I won't make any claim that this is how they stand now, or will end up, just that if the season ended right now, I think this is how they should go):
Seeds(* represents presumed conference winner):
1: UCLA*, Ohio St*, UNC*, Florida*,
2: Memphis*, Wisconsin, Pitt*, Texas A&M*
3: Duke, Southern Illinois*,Kansas, Georgetown
4: Maryland, UNLV*, Arizona, Nevada*
5: Kentucky, Air Force*, Michigan St, Virginia Tech
6: Tennesee, Louisville, Oregon, Boston College
7: Villanova, Marquette, BYU, Washington St
8: Indiana, Notre Dame, Old Dominion*, Butler*
9: Creighton, Illinois, Xavier*, Texas
10: Vanderbilt, Missouri St, Virginia, USC
11: Stanford, Drexel, Appalachian St*, Syracuse
12: Purdue, Florida St, Oklahoma St, Gonzaga*
13: Georgia Tech, Winthrop*, Holy Cross*, Vermont*
14: Akron*, Penn*, Sam Houston St*, Long Beach St*
15: Oral Roberts*, East Tennesee St*, South Alabama*, Marist*
16: Austin Peay*, Weber St*, Central Connecticut St*, Delaware St*/Missippi Valley St*
Given that setup, I wouldn't expect Ga Tech to make it in without winning at least two of their next three(either BC or UNC + an ACC tourney is the minimum to be considered, win any 3 and they are probably in). Teams like Old Dominion, Butler, Xavier, App St, and Winthrop are likely ahead of them should they not win conference tourneys. The 3 to the 6 seeds are really hard to differentiate IMO. This year it really does seem almost like a whim to place one team ahead of another. If I were correct, the teams teams that I'd think are hardest/easiest to deal with at each seed would be(hardest first, then easiest)
1: UNC/Ohio St
2: Wisconsin/Memphis
3: Kansas/Southern Illinois
4: Maryland/UNLV
5: Michigan St/Air Force
6: Louisville/Oregon
7: Washington St/BYU
8: Indiana/Old Dominion
9: Texas/Creighton
10: Vanderbilt/USC
11: Syracuse/Drexel
12 and beyond... I'm not going to pretend to have a clue. Anyway, am curious what others think(and there are some teams I'm pretty sure will get seeded lower/higher than I have, but I can't figure out why they are projected so looking at the numbers and all).