Ranking the Men's NCAA Tournament Teams

 

The NCAA Tournament brackets were released on Sunday, March 12.

I collected the names of the teams and ranked them regardless of their region or seeding.

The ranking combines RPI (a strength-of-schedule metric) and the net number of blowout wins minus blowout losses. 

I will fill out my bracket accordingly. 

Thus I have #1 Houston beating # 1 Alabama in the Final. Gonzaga and Purdue are my other Final Four picks (Gonzaga and UCLA are in the same region).

We'll see how this goes! 

1. Houston

2. Alabama

3. Gonzaga

4. UCLA

5. Purdue 

6. San Diego St

7. Kansas 

8. Texas

9. Florida Atlantic 

10. Utah St

11. Saint Mary's

12. Arizona

13. Duke

14. Marquette 

15. Oral Roberts 

16. Memphis 

17. Xavier

18. Boise St

19. Tennessee

20. Baylor

21. Virginia

22. VCU

23. UConn

24. Miami (FL) 

25. Texas A&M

26. Nevada

27. College of Charleston

28. Drake

29. Kent St

30. Arkansas

31. Kansas State

32. Indiana

33. Auburn

34. Missouri

35. Louisiana-Lafayette 

36. Iona

37. NC State

38. Creighton

39. West Virginia

40. Iowa St

41. Kentucky

42. Michigan State 

43. USC 

44. Maryland

45. Penn St

46. Kennesaw St

47. Vermont

48. TCU

49. Arizona St

50. Miss State

51. Pitt

52. Providence

53. Northwestern

54. Illinois

55. Furman

56. UNC-Ashville

57. Iowa

58. Montana State  

59. Grand Canyon 

60. Princeton

61. UCSB

62. Colgate

63. Northern Kentucky

64. Howard 

65. Texas A&M - Corpus Christi 

66. SE Missouri

67. Texas Southern 

68. Fairleigh-Dickinson 

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