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Projecting Seeds is Risky Business
Published: 3/15/2008 4:17 PM
Last Modified: 3/15/2008 4:17 PM

Bracketology, the science of predicting the NCAA Tournament, may be fun but it can be full of misinformation regardless of what projections you are reading.
Most of the projected brackets have Oklahoma at a No. 7 seed and Oral Roberts at a No. 13.
Forget locations. Those can be a crap shoot at best to figure.
However, getting the seed number close to accurate can be done. OU might have been able to get to a No. 6 if it had won on Saturday.
The blowout loss probably doesn't knock them down, although an eight-seed would not be shocking.
At the same time, ORU is about where one would expect. The rash of upsets shrunk the available bubble slots and probably assured the Golden Eagles that a No. 12, something ORU coach Scott Sutton would have loved, was not reachable. Plus, because of the added upset winners in the mid-major conferences, has filled all the slot below ORU at No. 14.
There will probably be some complaining by OU and ORU fans. Neither will have an easy road to advance past the first game or two.
However, as Tulsa and Oklahoma State would attest, just beiing there would be great.



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