With a second week of bracket projections already underway (including yesterday's, which holds up after a handful of games), it's time to revive another late-season staple: The at-large board.
The idea is simple: Take out all of the de facto automatic qualifiers (which for now include conference leaders like Butler, Florida, Gonzaga, Kansas, Miami, Michigan, New Mexico, Oregon, Syracuse and Wichita State, among others) and offer up a list of the teams in the at-large field.
This tends to be more useful closer to Selection Sunday, but it's worth a look from time to time over the next few weeks as well.
1. Duke
2. Indiana
3. Arizona
4. Louisville
5. Michigan State
6. Ohio State
7. Marquette
8. N.C. State
9. Minnesota
10. Oklahoma
11. UNLV
12. San Diego State
13. Cincinnati
14. Kansas State
15. Creighton
16. Georgetown
17. Wisconsin
18. Virginia Commonwealth
19. UCLA
20. Missouri
21. Baylor
22. Mississippi
23. Illinois
24. Notre Dame
25. Pittsburgh
26. North Carolina
27. Oklahoma State
28. Iowa State
29. La Salle
30. Colorado
31. Colorado State
32. Arizona State
33. Wyoming
LAST FOUR IN
34. Villanova
35. Temple
36. Saint Mary's
37. Maryland
LAST FOUR OUT
38. Brigham Young
39. Kentucky
40. Memphis
41. Charlotte
NEXT FOUR OUT
42. St. John's
43. Saint Louis
44. Boise State
45. Alabama
ON THE FRINGE
46. Indiana State
47. Massachusetts
48. Texas-El Paso
49. Rutgers
50. Iowa
51. Northwestern
52. Florida State
53. Air Force
54. Virginia
55. Richmond
--- Patrick Stevens
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