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Found on Twitter – NCAA Tournament Storylines: Midwest and South Regions

It’s been a while since my last installment of “Found on Twitter,” so I thought we’d merge two of my favorite things together by mixing twitter with the NCAA Tournament.  The following tweets are from Sunday during the Selection Show and will provide a good look at the important storylines in “the Dance.”

Starting at the Top

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Comas and Kyle CBS Radio Interview – 2/26/13

Tuesday afternoon, I went on 810am Orlando CBS Radio and discussed college hoops.  It was a great segment where both hosts had some really good questions for me.  I’m introduced at the 2:00 mark.  Here’s what we covered:

  • “How young is too young?” – Nick Saban offers a full ride to an 8th grader
  • Teams on the rise – Georgetown, New Mexico, Saint Louis, Akron
  • How far have Cincinnati and the Valley teams fallen?
  • Notable changes in the top 12 overall seeds – Michigan back to the top line; Michigan State down to 5th overall; Miami down to 6th, and how bad was the Wake Forest loss; New Mexico up to the 2-line at 8th and why they’re there over Kansas, who is 9th
  • Last Four In, First Four Out, Next Four Out – Kentucky’s situation
  • Bracketing Principles – what they are and how they can drive me nuts while projecting brackets; addition of “pods” to my projections; why the Committee puts so much emphasis on geography vs. seeding
  • Where you can find me (other than here) – I mentioned my weekly Bracketology update on CollegeHoopsJournal.com

You can click play above or check out the link here if you’re on a mobile device and/or the embedded player isn’t showing up above.

Bracket Update: Changes are Afoot

As you may know (at least you darn well should), I’ve been posting all of my bracket updates to one page lately so as not to waste valuable front page space with constant updates when little changes from day-to-day.  That plan had to be temporarily abandoned, though, when I went a whole five days without updating the bracket – especially when two of those days were a weekend.

Below, I’ll lay out the biggest changes in the bracket, teams on the rise, on the decline, teams now in danger, and I’ll discuss the biggest addition to this version of all (and it’s not a team).  Enjoy!

Break Down the Bracket

College Basketball Power Rankings: Cutting Down the Nets

The Super Bowl is over a week in our rear-view mirror, so by now, you’ve seen all the bracket projections, conference races, and AP rankings you can handle.  But what you really want to know is who’s going to cut down the nets in Atlanta.  We’ll count down from 30, and these rankings won’t be which teams are playing the best right now, who’s the hottest, or who has the best resumes.

This a gut-feel list of who we’d bet on to win the National Championship – whether it be talent, coaching, team makeup, or any other reason we feel plays a role.  In Part I, we started at 30 and went through 9. In this installment, we’ll give a rundown of our “Elite Eight” and some more in-depth info on those teams.

Countdown to the Cut-Down

footballandBRACKET-ology – February 12

Since you can go pretty much anywhere on the internet and find a different version of Bracketology (there’s even a matrix with 60+ brackets), I decided it was my responsibility as a college hoops blogger to initiate one of my own. Below you’ll find a link to a pdf file that has my bracket within and also the breakdown of where each team is slotted. For those unable to view such a link, I’ve also included screengrabs that can be enlarged by clicking on them.

Bracketology awaits!