Where Memphis basketball's NCAA resume stands entering AAC Tournament
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The regular season is over.
All that's left for Memphis basketball between now and Selection Sunday is the AAC Tournament. That gives Penny Hardaway's squad one more window to make an impression on the NCAA Tournament selection committee before March Madness gets underway. The Tigers will be the No. 2 seed at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas, and will face either UCF or SMU on Friday (6 p.m., ESPNU) in the quarterfinals.
As it stood Monday, Memphis (23-8, 13-5 AAC) was No. 34 in the NCAA's NET rankings, No. 33 via KenPom, No. 32 in KPI (which ranks every team’s wins and losses on a positive-to-negative scale), and No. 35 in the Basketball Power Index, which is a formula that calculates the strength of schedule and home court advantage.
Where does that leave the Tigers in the eyes of the bracketologists?
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ESPN (Joe Lunardi)
Lunardi projects the Tigers will be a 9 seed facing Missouri in Des Moines, where he's also got Kansas (as a 1 seed) taking on a First Four team (either Fairleigh Dickinson or Southeast Missouri State.
CBS Sports (Jerry Palm)
Palm updated his bracket Monday morning. He kept the Tigers as a 10 seed. His bracket has Memphis facing Iowa State in Des Moines, with Marquette and Montana State the other two teams in that quadrant.
Fox Sports (Mike DeCourcy)
DeCourcy's latest update came Monday morning and has the Tigers slotted as the top 10 seed in the field.
Bracketwag (Shelby Mast)
Mast's most recent bracketology update (Sunday night) has Memphis as the third 9 seed (a 5-spot bump from last Monday's projection). His latest prediction is the Tigers will match up with Illinois in Birmingham, with Alabama and either Howard or Fairleigh Dickinson rounding out that part of the bracket.
Crazy Sports Dude blog
The Crazy Sports Dude blog has the most accurate five-bracketology average out of all brackets tracked by Bracket Matrix. His most recent update came on March 3, when he projected the Tigers will be the top 10 seed and meet Duke in Denver.
1-3-1 Sports
1-3-1 Sports' Monday projection has the Tigers in as the top 10 seed, up four slots overall from its bracketology seven days earlier. 1-3-1 Sports has been the sixth-most accurate five-year bracketology average among all brackets tracked by Bracket Matrix.
Reach sports writer Jason Munz at jason.munz@commercialappeal.com or on Twitter @munzly.
This article originally appeared on Memphis Commercial Appeal: Where Memphis basketball is projected to be when March Madness begins
