NIT Pairings

• From: mbphilp <no_reply_at_yahoogroups.com>
• Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 06:23:10 -0000
• Message-ID: <a5v3se+qpeo_at_...>

So the QB-Madness people have picked their NCAA tournament, so the
NIT 
cannot be far behind in picking the best of the rest!  Here's how the 
32 were chosen (e-mail Andy Goss for questions on 1 and 2):

"1. Any team that was considered by somebody to be an
at-large bid is in this field.  That took care of 19
of the 32 bids.

2. Any team which someone considered worthy of an
autobid was given full consideration.  Their % of
autobids won (and because some people voted multiple
teams, this varies quite a bit) was multiplied by the
number of teams from their conference who made the Big
Dance to get a final percent rating.  The top 13 of
those were let in."

3. From there the seedings were done randomly with numbers drawn from
a 
hat.  No conference was allowed to have two of their own teams square 
off against each other in the first two rounds.

Without further ado: here are the brackets.  All caps indicates first 
round home game, * indicates that winner of the game will get second 
round home. The final 8 teams will play their games at the RCA Dome/
Indianapolis Convention Center in Indianapolis, IN

North Carolina vs. DePAUW at Greencastle, IN
*Tennessee-Chattanooga vs. PENNSYLVANIA at Philadelphia, PA

Tennessee vs. VIRGINIA TECH at Blacksburg, VA
*Western Ontario vs. PROVIDENCE	at Providence, RI

Arkansas vs. MOREHOUSE at Atlanta, GA
*St. Bonaventure vs. AKRON at Akron, OH

William and Mary vs. DARTMOUTH at Hanover, NH
*Rhodes vs. WISCONSIN at Madison, WI

Villanova vs. DELAWARE at Newark, DE
*Columbia vs. OHIO STATE at Columbus, OH

Queen's vs. NORTHWESTERN at Evanston, IL
*Missouri vs. WILLIAMS at Williamstown, MA

Ole Miss vs. ARIZONA STATE at Tempe, AZ
*Penn State vs. GEORGIA TECH at Atlanta, GA

Louisiana-Lafayette vs. INDIANA	at Bloomington, IN
*New York University vs. MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY at Kansas City, MO


So there's the NIT brackets.  All submissions will follow similar 
deadlines as QB_Madness and should be sent to cbowl_at_... 
where they will be tabulated by their alotted times.  I will try to
get 
to them in a timely manner, but since we're nearing finals at the 
moment it may be a little behind.

Thanks,
Michael Philpy
Commissioner QB-Madness NIT