Reflections on the bracket

As the brackets were announced we should have had a clue that things were going to be unusual. Things we noticed immediately were:

California a 7 seed ?
George Washington an 8 seed ?

We know the Colonials did not play a very good schedule this season, but what a snub !!!

As the bracket progressed...

Pitt a 5 seed ? .... seems the Panthers are getting snubbed with low seeds year after year.

San Diego State an 11 seed (we should have seen what was about to come from this one)

Then came the Washington DC region.

We were surprised when Utah State was announced, but we were SHOCKED when we saw Air Force come up !!!!!!

..... and then to see Tennessee as a 2 seed ??

perhaps a few weeks ago, but what have the Volunteers done lately ?? I guess losing three out of your last four (and four out of your last six) doesn't make a difference.

The final region was not a huge surprise, except for Nevada as a 5 seed. We thought we were a bit high with the Wolf Pack as a 6 seed, but as a 5 ??? Seems high.

We can not argue much with the three teams we selected and were left out.
We missed on Cincinnati, Missouri State and Hofstra. We half expected to miss on Hofstra (and include Seton Hall), but to include Utah State and Air Force ??

This is by far the most surprising bracket we have seen in the last 15 years.

Reflections: We only got 62/65 right. We can do much better and next year we will do much better. Despite missing three teams, we still had 30 teams seeded exactly right and we had 57/65 seeded within one line of their true seed.

We missed on the three teams we put in and were excluded
We missed by 2 spots on Pitt
We missed by three spots on California, Tennessee, George Washington and Montana (a 12)?

We are left scratching our heads at some of the selections and some of the seedings, but we can only move forward from here.

We will evaluate the brackets; look at the matchups in the NCAA Tournament and post projections and predictions in the next few days leading up to the first day of the NCAA Tournament.