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No, for the love of all things holy, no! There's Bracketology posted for the 2011 NCAA tourney!
Mike Hlas Apr. 14, 2010 10:42 am
If you're a bracketologist, you have to figure out how to stretch your work year from a month into a year, I guess.
Or you could find an actual job.
Anyway, ESPN's Joe Lunardi has done the unthinkable and put up his first set of brackets for the 2011 NCAA tournament.
The insanity can be found here.
Sorry, Iowa and Iowa State fans. Your teams aren't in it. Now there's a shocker.
But what did surprise me is Northern Iowa is in the field of 65 (it's supposed to get bumped to a field of 96 any day now, which will increase the poor, overworked bracketologist's work load by 50 percent).
I would have thought Wichita State, with almost all its key players returning from a 25-win team, would be the bracketologist's pick from the Missouri Valley Conference.
Nay, nay. It's UNI, and once again as a No. 9 seed. If the Panthers beat Clemson in a first-round game in Cleveland, they'll once again meet Michigan State.
Another first-round game matches Kentucky and Siena.
And in a real doozy, Tennessee is picked to collide with New Mexico in the opening round.

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