Drew Cannon wrote about his Easiest Bubble Solver earlier this season. It’s a relatively easy formula. Add a team’s RPI and Ken Pomeroy rank together and voila. You get where a team might end up on the S-curve. If it is to be believed we could certainly see a two-bid CAA. VCU and Drexel are both hanging out right on the fringes of my latest update of EBS. But I’m not concerned about the NCAA tournament. Nope. I want to use EBS to figure out the NIT field. I did and here is what the formula came up with.
NIT Bracket (Full S-Curve Preserved):
1. Arizona
8. George Mason
4. Akron
5. Mississippi
3. Tennessee
6. Massachusetts
2. Illinois
7. Pittsburgh
1. North Carolina St.
8. Old Dominion
4. Minnesota
5. Colorado
3. Mississippi State
6. Denver
2. Dayton
7. LSU
1. Oregon
8. Buffalo
4. Wyoming
5. Marshall
3. La Salle
6. Nevada
2. Oral Roberts
7. Virginia Tech
1. Washington
8. Tulsa
4. St. Bonaventure
5. Stanford
3. Northern Iowa
6. UCF
2. Saint Joseph’s
7. UCLA
Teams other people might be interested in:
- Wagner — Projected NEC Champ here because of highest EBS
- Princeton — Fifth team out of NIT according to EBS
- Loyola (MD) — 12th team out of NIT
- Penn — 20th team out of NIT
- Fairfield — 22nd team out of NIT
The top 97 teams in EBS made either the NCAA tournament or NIT in this run.
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