Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Major and Mid-Major Tournaments

36 Majors and 32 Mid-Majors qualified for this year's 2011 NCAA tournament. Supposing (not proposing) these groups had separate tournaments, how would their seeds according to the Power Points System and the NCAA selection committee compare? The results are posted below with the Power Points System and NCAA selection committee's seeds listed respectively.

MAJOR CONFERENCE TOURNAMENT
Kansas 1 1
Ohio State 1 1
Duke 1 1
Pittsburgh 1 1
Florida 2 2
North Carolina 2 2
Notre Dame 2 2
Texas 2 3
Connecticut 3 2
Kentucky 3 3
Syracuse 3 3
Purdue 3 3
Louisville 4 4
Arizona 4 4
Georgetown 4 5
Wisconsin 4 4
Vanderbilt 5 4
Cincinnati 5 5
Texas A&M 5 6
Kansas State 5 5
Saint John's 6 6
West Virginia 6 5
Washington 6 6
Missouri 6 9
UCLA 7 6
Villanova 7 7
Tennessee 7 7
Georgia 7 8
Florida State 8 8
Clemson 8 9
Penn State 8 8
Illinois 8 7
Michigan 9 7
Marquette 9 9
Michigan State 9 8
USC 9 9

UNDER THE POWER POINTS SYSTEM
IN: Virginia Tech and Boston College
OUT: Michigan State and USC

MID-MAJOR CONFERENCE TOURNAMENT
San Diego State 1 1
BYU 1 1
Xavier 2 1
Temple 3 1
George Mason 2 2
UNLV 3 2
Butler 4 2
Old Dominion 1 2
Gonzaga 4 3
Virginia Commonwealth 5 3
Utah State 1 3
Richmond 2 3
Memphis 3 4
UAB 4 4
Belmont 2 4
Princeton 4 4
Oakland 5 5
Morehead State 5 5
Bucknell 5 5
Indiana State 6 5
Wofford 6 6
Saint Peter's 7 6
Long Island 3 6
Akron 6 6
Northern Colorado 7 7
UC Santa Barbara 7 7
Hampton 6 7
Boston University 7 7
UNC Asheville 8 8
Texas-San Antonio 8 8
Arkansas-Little Rock 8 8
Alabama State 8 8

UNDER THE POWER POINTS SYSTEM
IN: Missouri State and Cleveland State
OUT: UAB and VCU

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