January 31, 2011

Bracketology at conference season mid-point

Charlie Creme's most recent field of 64 includes four Pac-10 teams:
Stanford
#2 in Spokane (with Tennessee as #1)
One night the Cardinal grab more than 60 rebounds, the next they knock down 11 3-pointers. Stanford has dominated the Pac-10 so thoroughly and in so many ways that it's hard to imagine anything short of an unbeaten league season.
UCLA
#3 in Dallas (with Baylor as #1)
The Bruins didn't even compete with Stanford, but no one else in the Pac-10 has been able to match UCLA — which illustrates just how big the gaps are in this league.
Arizona State
#8 in Dallas
In a game the Sun Devils really needed, and with leading scorer Dymond Simon on the bench with a head injury, senior Becca Tobin made some big buckets late to propel ASU to a win at USC. That establishes the Sun Devils, for now, as the third-best team in the Pac-10.
USC
#9 in Philadelphia (with UConn as #1)
A big comeback at home against Arizona State ultimately fell short, resulting in a loss that kept USC out of third place in the Pac-10. The task is now just a bit harder in the second half of the league schedule.
The entire bracket

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hmmm--after that Dook performance last night, we should be a 1. Will be interesting to see what shakes out.