Bracketology in May is pointless
It's as absurd as an NFL mock draft this time of year. Two years ago at this point they wouldn't have had VCU in the tournament at all, let alone as a 10-seed. Last year, they probably would have had us in because the injury bug hadn't hit yet.
I'd like to hope they are wrong about us. VCU has not missed the tournament in back to back years since the 04-05 & 05-06 seasons. *knocks on wood*.
Pundits like Rothstein have been championing the A10 as a 3 to 4 bid league next season. It stinks that an A10 guy does not even give the league credit for that in preseason prognostications.
I take it as a way to measure expectations going into a season. That was a great job by MR and the team to earn that 10 seed. 2019 when they were preseason top 25 and missed both the tournament and NIT was obviously a major head scratcher.
They return their top eight players from a team that beat National Champs Kansas and Elite Eight Miami on a neutral floor last season. I wouldn't be surprised to see Dayton start next season ranked.Daetin a 6 seed?
St. Louis hasn't had much of a team since Moses Malone and Bad News Barnes were playing for the ABA Spirits
To be fair, they have Javonte Perkins and Yuri Collins back, and Gibson Jimerson was one of the best freshmen in the nation last season. SLU will probably also be ranked at the start of the season.
