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?