New Bracket

New bracket following action on Sunday.  Auto-Bid winners are in ALL CAPS.

New Bracket

Last Bracket before Conference Tournaments

New Bracket

A few notes.  First, I have added my last four in and first four out and next four out.  Second, note that Arizona and Louisville were switched on the seed line to make the bracket placement work lower on the bracket.  This was not a major change, as I had Louisville #11 overall and Arizona #13.  This will explain why Louisville, a 4 seed in the bracket, was placed in Kansas City ahead of Kansas State, a 3 seed in the Bracket. 
Finally, as always there is intense debate over the #1 seeds.  If the season were to end today, I think that IU would clearly be a 1 seed, but I think the next 6 teams could be pulled from a hat in any order, and I probably could argue that they were pulled in the right order.  I have them in the following order: Florida, Miami, Gonzaga, Duke, Georgetown, Michigan St.

February 26 Projections

New Bracket through 2-13 games

Here is my S-Curve.  Note that I had to move Ohio State down to the 4-line to satisfy bracketing requirements, and thus Louisville was moved up to the 3-line.

1	Duke	Indiana	Florida	Miami
2	Michigan St	Michigan	Gonzaga	Syracuse
3	Kansas	Arizona	Ohio St	Kansas St
4	Louisville	New Mexico	Georgetown	Oregon
5	Butler	Oklahoma St	Marquette	Cincinnati
6	Missouri	Notre Dame	Minnesota	Creighton
7	Wisconsin	Pittsburgh	Colorado St	San Diego St
8	NC State	Memphis	VCU	Wichita St
9	UCLA	St Mary's	Saint Louis	Oklahoma
10	Kentucky	Iowa State	Ole Miss	UNLV
11	North Carolina	LaSalle	Colorado	Virginia
12	Middle Tenn	La Tech	Indiana St	Baylor	Arizona St	Illinois
13	Bucknell	Belmont	Akron	SF Austin
14	Long Beach St	Davidson	Valparaiso	Harvard
15	Montana	Fl. Gulf Coast	Stony Brook	Niagara
16	W. Illinois	Bryant	Northeastern	UNC-Ashville	NC Central	Southern
FFO	Stanford	Charlotte	Villanova	Cal
NFO	UMass	Air Force	Maryland	Temple

New Bracket through 2-10

Here is my updated bracket, as of games through 2-10.  Also, I have included my S-Curve below.

1	Duke	Indiana	Michigan	Florida
2	Miami	Syracuse	Michigan St	Gonzaga
3	Arizona	Kansas	Kansas St	Ohio St
4	Louisville	Butler	New Mexico	Georgetown
5	Oregon	Marquette	Cincinnati	Oklahoma St
6	Creighton	Missouri	Notre Dame	Minnesota
7	Wisconsin	Pittsburgh	San Diego St	Colorado St
8	NC State	Memphis	VCU	Wichita St
9	UCLA	Kentucky	Iowa State	Ole Miss
10	St Mary's	UNLV	Saint Louis	Oklahoma
11	Indiana St	North Carolina	LaSalle	Colorado
12	Middle Tenn	La Tech	Baylor	Arizona St	Villanova	Illinois
13	Bucknell	Belmont	Akron	SF Austin
14	Long Beach St	Davidson	Valparaiso	Harvard
15	Montana	Fl. Gulf Coast	Stony Brook	Niagara
16	W. Illinois	Bryant	Northeastern	UNC-Ashville	NC Central	Southern
FFO	Virginia	Stanford	Cal	UMass
NFO	Charlotte	Maryland	Air Force	Boise St

Welcome to my Bracket Blog

First, a little about me.  I am a sports fan and amateur prognosticator.  I live in Indiana and am a huge fan of Indiana University.  Also, I am a full time student, coach middle school basketball, and have a wife and two young sons.  I'd like to tell you when I'll have updates, but my busy schedule makes it hard to do so regularly.  I will attempt to have at least two updates weekly through February, and more frequently in March.  Once major conference tournaments start, I'll likely have daily updates.
I have created this blog so that I can put my own projections out there, I can test my prognostication skills against the professionals and other amateur bracket projections, and so that you can comment on my projections.  I am working on a points system to evaluate brackets, and would appreciate feedback.  Also, for anyone interested in comparing different brackets, I recommend The Bracket Project, where you can view other brackets, and take a look at the NCAA Principles and Procedures for selecting, seeding, and bracketing teams in the tournament
My first bracket is already posted, and my next one should come soon.  I am looking for better ways to display my bracket, so that may evolve over the next month.

First Mock Bracket of 2013