Regan NCAA Tournament Index 3/5/2017 (games through Saturday 3/4/2017)

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A few notes on my projected field:

• The team assumed to get the automatic bid for each conference is the highest team in the ratings currently eligible for the bid. In other words, it isn’t necessarily the team with the best conference record.
• There will likely be one or more bids stolen by conference tourney winners next week that wouldn’t have received an at large bid otherwise. So if a team is one of the last 4 in now, they will likely need to improve their profile to receive an at large bid on Selection Sunday.
• There is significant separation between a few of the teams ranked next to each other.  Please look at the Index output linked below to see how close/far teams are from each other.  A difference of 1.00 between teams ranked next to each other is average.

The projected field as of March 5, 2017 (in order from left to right on each seed line.) Assumed automatic bids are the team from each conference that is highest in the index.

Full numerical output of the Regan Index thru March 4 games

1	Villanova	Kansas	Gonzaga	Kentucky
2	North Carolina	Louisville	Baylor	Florida
3	Oregon	UCLA	Butler	Duke
4	Arizona	Florida St	West Virginia	Virginia
5	Purdue	SMU	Minnesota	Cincinnati
6	Notre Dame	Maryland	Iowa St	Creighton
7	St Mary’s CA	Oklahoma St	Wisconsin	Dayton
8	South Carolina	Arkansas	Miami FL	Virginia Tech
9	VCU	Michigan	Wake Forest	Northwestern
10	Marquette	Wichita St	Seton Hall	Xavier
11	Michigan St	MTSU	Providence	Vanderbilt/Rhode Island
12	USC/Illinois St.	UNC Wilmington	Nevada	UT Arlington
13	Monmouth NJ	Princeton	Vermont	Bucknell
14	Auburn	Winthrop	Valparaiso	UNC Greensboro
15	FL Gulf Coast	Northern Kentucky	South Dakota	UC Irvine
16	Jacksonville St	E Washington	Tx Southern/NC Central	TX A&M CC/Mt St. Mary’s
Last 4 BYES	Seton Hall	Xavier	Michigan St	Providence
Last 4 IN	Vanderbilt	USC	Illinois St.	Rhode Island
1st 4 OUT	Kansas St.	Illinois	Syracuse	Georgia
2nd 4 OUT	Iowa	Clemson	Indiana	California