Bracket Projection: 3/5

Happy Monday! Bracket week has arrived, and this year it comes with the sweet satisfaction of Michigan having already sealed an automatic bid and a huge resume boost from beating Michigan State and Purdue. As mentioned a few weeks ago, the extreme best-case scenario of Michigan winning their last two games and then four straight in the conference tournament has rocketed them up to a 3 seed, which is fun. What's less fun is the 1 and the 2 in this exact scenario, but of course, the regions are just for fun. Here is the rest of the bracket as it stands today. Like last year, green highlight means the team has won their conference tournament and secured an auto-bid:

	ATLANTA	BOSTON	OMAHA	LOS ANGELES
1	Virginia	Villanova	Xavier	Kansas
2	Purdue	Cincinnati	North Carolina	Duke
3	Auburn	Tennessee	Michigan St.	Michigan
4	Arizona	Clemson	Texas Tech	Wichita St.
5	Kentucky	Ohio St.	Gonzaga	West Virginia
6	Houston	Nevada	Arkansas	TCU
7	Seton Hall	Rhode Island	Texas A&M	Creighton
8	Oklahoma	Florida	Miami FL	Butler
9	Saint Mary's	Virginia Tech	Missouri	Florida St.
10	North Carolina St.	Alabama	Arizona St.	USC
11	Middle Tennessee	St. Bonaventure	Providence	Louisville
11		Texas	Kansas St.
12	New Mexico St.	Baylor	Louisiana Lafayette	Loyola Chicago
13	Buffalo	Vermont	Murray St.	South Dakota
14	Montana	Bucknell	College of Charleston	UNC Greensboro
15	UC Santa Barbara	Wright St.	Wagner	Penn
16	Radford	Iona	Lipscomb	Stephen F. Austin
16	Hampton			Texas Southern

Iona and UNC Greensboro attempt to punch their tickets today, with Fairfield and East Tennessee State as their respective challengers. Enjoy the madness this week!