Bracketology alert (Soft Pretzel Logic)

Bracketology alert

Another day, another bracket, and this time Drexel's in the field. The Dragons will be helped a whole lot if Georgia Tech, Oklahoma State and Kansas State keep losing.

Drexel gets a 12-seed and gets shipped to Spokane to play BYU in the East Rutherford regional. Winner gets No. 5 Nevada or No. 12 Vermont.

I don't have time to do all the analysis, but it so happens that No. 13 Penn is sent to Spokane as well to play No. 4 UNLV. It's in the San Jose regional, so the Quakers might be out west for quite a while, but I guarantee you that if that happened, the happiest people on the planet would be the people right here in Inquirer and Daily News World Headquarters. Especially the people who control the bags of money that don't quite exist in the basement.

(The second-happiest people would be the writers in Vegas and Reno, it looks like.)

Winner of Penn-UNLV gets Duke or VCU. You can be sure everyone else out there would want Duke-UNLV, but Penn-Duke would be interesting. Definitely more interesting than last year's game. Not saying that Penn could pull it off (against Duke or UNLV), but I genuinely don't know which of those games would be easier.

Villanova is still an 8-seed, and still paired with Stanford in Winston-Salem in the East Rutherford regional. And if 'Nova won that and upset Carolina, they could end up meeting Drexel in the Sweet 16. At the Meadowlands. If only it was at the Palestra.

Just saying. Now, back to the mines.

Posted by Jonathan Tannenwald on February 28, 2007 12:24 PM | Permalink

Comments (4)

Dragons Fan:

LET's GO DRAGONS!!

Jonathon,

With Drexel in the new bracket, and the 3 bid CAA, do you think they could still get in with a loss to VCU in the semis?

Posted by Dragons Fan | February 28, 2007 1:23 PM

Posted on February 28, 2007 13:23

Jonathan Tannenwald

I still doubt it. Though we don't know what the BCS-conference tournament brackets will look like, I can't help thinking that the selection committee will look at a team it's more comfortable with first, and we all know that kind of team doesn't play in the CAA.

Posted by Jonathan Tannenwald | February 28, 2007 1:56 PM

Posted on February 28, 2007 13:56

What ifs fan:

That was a lot of what if's Jonathan.

Posted by What ifs fan | February 28, 2007 8:42 PM

Posted on February 28, 2007 20:42

Jonathan Tannenwald

Well, the whole point of Bracketology is to play with what if's. That's why it's so much fun.

Posted by Jonathan Tannenwald | February 28, 2007 9:22 PM

Posted on February 28, 2007 21:22

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