Friday, March 2, 2007

2005 NCAA Tourney Breakdown

2005

Chicago
Seed School Conference Record Berth Type
#1 Illinois
Big Ten 32-1
Tournament Champion
#2 Oklahoma State
Big 12 23-6
Tournament Champion
#3 Arizona
Pac-10 27-6
At-Large Bid
#4 Boston College
ACC 24-4
At-Large Bid
#5 Alabama
SEC 23-7
At-Large Bid
#6 LSU
SEC 20-9
At-Large Bid
#7 Southern Illinois
MVC 25-7
At-Large Bid
#8 Texas
Big 12 19-10
At-Large Bid
#9 Nevada
WAC 23-6
At-Large Bid
#10 St. Mary's
WCC 23-8
At-Large Bid
#11 UAB
C-USA 21-10
At-Large Bid
#12 Milwaukee
Horizon 22-5
Tournament Champion
#13 Penn
Ivy League 20-8
Regular Season Champion
#14 Utah State
Big West 24-7
Tournament Champion
#15 SE Louisiana
Southland 19-8
Tournament Champion
#16 Farleigh Dickinson
NEC 19-12
Tournament Champion
Albuquerque
Seed School Conference Record Berth Type
#1 Washington
Pac-10 26-5
Tournament Champion
#2 Wake Forest
ACC 26-5
At-Large Bid
#3 Gonzaga
WCC 25-4
Tournament Champion
#4 Louisville
Big East 27-4
Tournament Champion
#5 Georgia Tech
ACC 19-11
At-Large Bid
#6 Texas Tech
Big 12 20-10
At-Large Bid
#7 West Virginia
Big East 21-10
At-Large Bid
#8 Pacific
Big West 26-3
At-Large Bid
#9 Pittsburgh
Big East 20-8
At-Large Bid
#10 Creighton
MVC 23-10
Tournament Champion
#11 UCLA
Pac-10 18-10
At-Large Bid
#12 George Washington
A-10 22-7
Tournament Champion
#13 Louisiana-Lafayette
Sun Belt 19-10
Tournament Champion
#14 Winthrop
Big South 24-5
Tournament Champion
#15 Chattanooga
Southern 17-10
Tournament Champion
#16 Montana
Big Sky 16-12
Tournament Champion
Austin
Seed School Conference Record Berth Type
#1 Duke
ACC 25-5
Tournament Champion
#2 Kentucky
SEC 25-5
At-Large Bid
#3 Oklahoma
Big 12 24-7
At-Large Bid
#4 Syracuse
Big East 27-6
Tournament Champion
#5 Michigan State
Big Ten 22-6
At-Large Bid
#6 Utah
MWC 25-5
At-Large Bid
#7 Cincinnati
C-USA 24-7
At-Large Bid
#8 Stanford
Pac-10 18-12
At-Large Bid
#9 Mississippi State
SEC 22-10
At-Large Bid
#10 Iowa
Big Ten 21-11
At-Large Bid
#11 UTEP
C-USA 25-7
Tournament Champion
#12 Old Dominion
CAA 27-5
Tournament Champion
#13 Vermont
Am. East 24-6
Tournament Champion
#14 Niagara
MAAC 20-9
Tournament Champion
#15 Eastern Kentucky
OVC 19-8
Tournament Champion
#16 Delaware State
MEAC 19-13
Tournament Champion
Syracuse
Seed School Conference Record Berth Type
#1 North Carolina
ACC 27-4
At-Large Bid
#2 Connecticut
Big East 22-7
At-Large Bid
#3 Kansas
Big 12 23-6
At-Large Bid
#4 Florida
SEC 23-7
Tournament Champion
#5 Villanova
Big East 22-7
At-Large Bid
#6 Wisconsin
Big Ten 22-8
At-Large Bid
#7 UNC-Charlotte
A-10 21-7
At-Large Bid
#8 Minnesota
Big Ten 21-10
At-Large Bid
#9 Iowa State
Big 12 18-11
At-Large Bid
#10 N.C. State
ACC 19-13
At-Large Bid
#11 Northern Iowa
MVC 20-10
At-Large Bid
#12 New Mexico
MWC 25-6
Tournament Champion
#13 Ohio
MAC 21-10
Tournament Champion
#14 Bucknell
Patriot 22-9
Tournament Champion
#15 Central Florida
Atlantic Sun 21-8
Tournament Champion
Play-in Oakland
Mid-Continent 11-18
Tournament Champion
Play-in Alabama A&M
SWAC 16-13
Tournament Champion

I'm not goddamn filling in the wikipedia links for each school. It was tedious and time-consuming enough to hand-enter the conferences, links, records, and berth columns.

Last teams in: UNI, UCLA, UAB (11 seeds)
Worst RPI's in: Iowa State (#63), N.C. State (#65)
Best RPI's left out: Miami University (#43), Wichita State (#45)

Conference RPI Standings (number of bids received)
1. ACC (5)
2. Big East (6)
3. Big XII (6)
4. Pac-10 (4)
5. SEC (5)
6. Big 10 (5)
7. WCC (2)
8. MVC (3)
9. C-USA (4)
10. MAC (1)

Mid-Major Involvement
For purposes of consistency, regardless of the conference ranks, we'll regard the ACC, Big 10, Big XII, Pac-10, Big East, and SEC as the "power conferences." Although the Missouri Valley rates very well in comparison to those teams, until Bradley gets to the Final Four or something, they're still a mid-major.

Power Conference Automatic Bids: 6
Mid-Major Automatic Bids: 24
Power Conference At-Large Bids: 25
Mid-Major At-Large Bids: 10

TEAM MOST LIKE IOWA:

BIG EAST:
6. Notre Dame (17-11, 9-7) (RPI: 73)

Notre Dame is an excellent corollary to Iowa's 2007 squad. Although they only lost 3 non-conference games, one was to Michigan, who sucked hard in '05. They beat Indiana early on (RPI: 61), but then their next best win was... who? Harvard? So with an atrocious non-conference showing, they walked into the 2nd toughest conference in '05 and stuck around very well; before they limped into the NIT losing 4 of 5, they were 16-7 and legitimate contenders for an NCAA berth. The first-round Big East Tourney loss to woofer Rutgers (8-18, 2-14) sealed their fate. Kind of sounds familiar, doesn't it?

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