Selection Sunday Shock

A countdown of the most stunning seedings in the bracket (easily the most shocking bracket I can remember):

(5)Pittsburgh - actually not that surprising...they always receive a large wooden shaft on Selection Sunday...

(4)Illinois - it's very, very hard to say that Iowa, UCLA, Florida, and Tennessee are better teams

(14)Xavier - probably the best 14 seed in the history of the tournament

(14)South Alabama - probably the second best 14 seed in the history of the tournament

(15)Winthrop - probably the best 15 seed in the history of the tournament

(8)George Washington - I think I can say without looking it up this will be the first team to be ranked in the top 6 going into the final weekend to receive an 8 seed in the tournament

(2)Tennessee - lost 4 of their last 6 games, each loss against a team seeded 8 or lower

(12)Utah State - exactly one major prognosticator out of 24 had them in the field...the same prognosticator who had Indiana and Cal out of the field and had Wichita State as a 4 seed...

(12)Montana - essentially with this seeding, the committee announced Montana would have been considered as an at-large had they lost in their conference tournament, and also announced they believe Montana is a better team than Cincinnati...

(13)Air Force - the most stunning at-large selection of all-time. Again, only one prognosticator had them in...and we've already talked about him.