A 347 team tournament update

 As previously established, I am completely insane. I set out to simulate a 347 team tournament, all the teams in division 1 basketball seeded exclusively on their RPI. The lowest 182 teams had a “Play in” game, if you will, to pare it down to 256 and a more traditional format. I’ve now simulated it down to 64, your standard tournament bracket (using whatifsports, of course). Here are a few stats:
– The highest seed eliminated so far is Kentucky who lost to Virginia.
– The lowest seed remaining is the Jacksonville State Gamecocks of the Ohio Valley conference, one of three teams from that conference in the final 64.
– Speaking of Jacksonville State, they are one of 7 teams (11% of the remaining field) that played one of those opening round games.
– Still speaking of Jacksonville State, they are a member of a group of 30 teams that didn’t make the real tournament, but are members of this pared down group.
– 29 teams did not come from BCS conferences. Mid majors the WCC and Horizon league had 4 and 3 teams each. The A-10 had 4 as well. Other conferences with bids: Big Sky (2), CAA (3), MWC (3), OVC (3), Southland (1), C-USA (1), MAAC (1) WAC (1) MVC (1) Southern (2) Ivy (1)

That said, here is a look at the tournament brackets. Never mind the attributed seeds, that’s just where they played into with no reseeding. I lefts the seeds so I would know where to put them when I put this into bracket form.  Without further ado, here is the poorly put together, terrible looking bracket for the remaining 64 teams of this 347 team experiment. Fill out yours TODAY!