Bracket Big Board: Cougars dance, break young male hearts

The Bracket Big Board takes into consideration past returns,
current performance and expected future gains in determining who should
be included among the field of 65 (31 automatic and 34 at-large bids).
Essentially, the Bracket Big Board is a cheat sheet designed for
amateur bracketologists if they were filling out a Tourney Pick ‘Em ’10
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*Updated Sunday at 2:48 PM CST



*For games played through Sunday, March 14
*RPI data provided
by Rivals
*Efficiency
stats from kenpom.com

On
the Bubble:
Virginia Tech (23-8), Florida (21-12), Mississippi St. (23-11)

Dropped
Out:
Virginia Tech

Conference

Breakdown: American
East
(1), ACC (6), Atlantic Sun (1), Atlantic 10 (3), Big 12 (7), Big
East (8), Big Sky (1), Big South (1), Big Ten (6), Big West (1),
Colonial (1), Conference USA (2), Horizon (1), Ivy (1), Metro (1),
Mid-American (1), Mid-Eastern (1), Missouri Valley (1), Mountain West
(4), Northeast (1), Ohio Valley (1), Pac-10 (2), Patriot (1), SEC (3),
Southern (1), Southland (1), SWAC (1), Summit (1), Sun Belt (1), West
Coast (2), WAC
(2)

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