This is the first time the last four at-large teams will be revealed publicly. Traditionally, the at-large teams are scattered throughout the seeding process, rarely going past No. 12, making it relatively easy to identify them. Yet the committee now will formally announce the last at-large teams by putting them in the first round.

Guerrero and Shaheen said the last four at-large teams would be put on the seed line the committee decided they earned. So, this could mean that two could be considered No. 12 seeds playing for the right to play a No. 5 and two could be No. 11s vying to play a No. 6 in the second round.

In its news release, the NCAA listed the 10th seed as a possible destination for the last at-large teams, something that has occurred in past years. It is unlikely that the committee will have one team seeded 10th, 11th or 12th to avoid having teams seeded differently playing in a First Four game.

Taken from this...
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=5374116

Cleveland Buck;671949 wrote:They don't have Ohio State as the top #1 seed.

Yes he does.

http://insider.espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/blog?name=ncbexperts&id=6105255

Tiger2003;671947 wrote:The Top #1 Seed get the 4th #2 seed and so on down the rank.

That is incorrect. They decide who is on the one line and then ranked them 1-4. Then they put four team on the two line, four on the three line, etc. Outside of the top four teams they don't seed anyone within their line. Geography is their primary concern at that point, so you could theoretically have the top one seed playing the top two seed (although we'd never know that since the selection committee doesn't rank the two seeds). Just look at last year. Kansas was the #1 overall seed, and most considered OSU to be the top #2 seed, but they were in the same region because of geography. The selection committee has made it very clear that they only ranked the one seeds and that the bracket is not set up on an s-curve.


As far as OSU's final record goes, sportsbook.com has 3/1 odds that OSU finished the regular season undefeated and 25/1 that they finish 40-0 and win it all.

Skip Bayless just gave OSU the big jinx. He predicted they will go 40-0.

I would put a hundy with 25-1 odds on 40-0. Turn that bill into $2500...mama would like that.

wildcats20;672577 wrote:Taken from this...
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=5374116

Here's Lunardi's latest Bracketology:
http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/bracketology

In that, he has Boston College and Wichita State playing in one of the play-ins to be an 11-seed and face Vanderbilt, and in the other, he has Richmond and Michigan State playing to be a 12-seed and face Louisville. Under his "last four in", these are the four teams listed.