Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Diminishing Skills Bracket-OGRAPHOLOGY. Really, I just wanted to see how the NCAA tournament field would look if it started today (actually, late Sunday night), and since it took me about 3 hours to work my bracket out, I figured I might as well make a post of it. I'm going to try to do this every Monday until the actual tourney field is announced, but I'm not going to promise anything. The field was filled by putting in the 32 automatic qualifiers (the leaders of each conference as of Sunday, February 6), and then determining the remaining 36 teams by taking an average of Ken Pomeroy's
ratings, ESPN's
RPI, and Jeff Sagarin's
ratings. The results are as follows (AQs in CAPS):
