It's never too early to start talking about it. Andy Katz sure is... https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketbal...-ncaa-bracket-predicted-50-days-opening-night Sent from my SM-G935V using Butler Hoops mobile app
Good lord Andy Katz...Georgetown at 5 seed!?! I know they should continue to improve and could definitely make the tournament but with a pretty soft non-con this year (Texas and Syracuse are the standout games and neither team is a tournament guarantee by any means), Georgetown would need to win a heck of a lot of BE games to get up to a 5 seed.
Obviously he's got some upside and their 3 talented sophomores should continue to get better, but do you know how good Yurtseven will have to be to adequately replace Govan?
It's now a little outdated (I'll have one more preseason bracket later), but I did post my bracketology for this year a little over a month ago. Now I insert a not-so-humble brag of ranking at #8 in the country on the bracket matrix (but preseason brackets mean nothing) over the past four years of bracketology https://bustingbrackets.com/2019/08/01/bracketology-2020-way-too-early-projected-field-of-68/
I don't only cover Butler haha! I can't let any bias show through in my national pieces so I try to stay as objective as I can.
No I don't think we're in 5 seed territory yet. But it could happen. I think we'll easily make the tournament. I don't think our OOC schedule is that soft. If you go by last years NET/Kenpom we have: Penn State 49/43 Texas (N) 33/25 UNC Greensboro 68/87 @ oklahoma St 72/83 @ SMU 94/107 Syracuse 50/39 and if we beat Texas we get Duke (N) 3/4 so that's 3 Quad 1 games assuming we get past Texas and 4 quad 2 games. Quadrant 1: Home 1-30, Neutral 1-50, Away 1-75. Quadrant 2: Home 31-75, Neutral 51-100, Away 76-135. Quadrant 3: Home 76-160, Neutral 101-200, Away 135-240. Quadrant 4: Home 161-353, Neutral 201-353, Away 241-353. We also have a Quad 3 game in Georgia State 126/124. Samford 161/144 is just on the cusp of making it a second. Also only having 1 NET 300+ team on the schedule should make our NET and SOS pretty good. If we don't beat Texas then it takes a hit, but we have plenty of opportunities to pick up quality wins for the metrics and every BE game should be at least a quad 2 game except for DePaul and St. John's.
Posted my Black Friday edition of Bracketology this morning. It's still way-too-early but I had a bunch of people asking for it. Butler slots in as a No. 6 seed, for those who don't want to open the link https://bustingbrackets.com/2019/11/29/bracketology-2020-louisville-ohio-state-headline-early-projected-field/
Goes to show some of these national writers don’t watch any games in certain conferences. Sent from my iPhone using Butler Hoops mobile app
It was posted the same day it came out, not in the last couple days. Sent from my iPhone using Butler Hoops
