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Below is the field of 65 projected to make the NCAA tournament.

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These projections are based on the "Dance Card" method of projecting the NCAA tournament field combined with the RPI forecast methodology of this webpage.
Dance Card was built using the old version of the RPI, so those are the forecasts I use.
Dance Card has not missed more than 3 teams in any year since its inception, but because I use forecasts, I expect to miss more early in the season.

As the season progresses, these forecasts should improve (assuming the selection committee continues to pick teams as they have in the past).
Because the automatic bids have not yet been decided, I picked the team from each conference which has the highest probability of winning the bid. Whether or not a team is included in the field is purely objective, but the seeds themselves are subjective.
Wondering why your team isn't on this page? Go here to see how all 341 of the teams stacked up.
Through games of Mar 15, 2008.

Seed	Auto Bid	Team	Conf	Dance Card	Prob(At-Large Bid)	Expected RPI Rank (Old Version)
1	X	North Carolina	ACC	11.3451	1.0000	1.0
1	X	UCLA	P10	10.3565	1.0000	4.0
1		Tennessee	SEC	9.7349	1.0000	2.0
1	X	Kansas	B12	8.9218	1.0000	7.0
2	X	Memphis	CUSA	8.7243	1.0000	3.0
2		Texas	B12	8.5127	1.0000	5.0
2		Duke	ACC	8.4627	1.0000	6.0
2		Georgetown	BE	7.2816	1.0000	8.0
3	X	Wisconsin	B10	6.6509	1.0000	10.0
3		Indiana	B10	6.4098	1.0000	20.0
3		Xavier	A10	6.1822	1.0000	9.0
3	X	Drake	MVC	6.0902	1.0000	12.0
4		Stanford	P10	5.9414	1.0000	15.0
4		Louisville	BE	5.8673	1.0000	11.0
4	X	Butler	Horz	5.7101	1.0000	17.0
4	X	Kent St.	MAC	5.6483	1.0000	28.0
5		Michigan St.	B10	5.3985	1.0000	18.0
5		Clemson	ACC	5.0053	1.0000	19.0
5		Vanderbilt	SEC	4.7424	1.0000	13.0
5		Washington St.	P10	4.3776	1.0000	22.0
6		Gonzaga	WCC	4.3440	1.0000	32.0
6	X	Nevada Las Vegas	MWC	4.1559	1.0000	23.0
6	X	Pittsburgh	BE	4.1269	1.0000	14.0
6		Notre Dame	BE	4.0819	1.0000	27.0
7		Southern California	P10	3.9659	1.0000	26.0
7		Brigham Young	MWC	3.8623	0.9999	30.0
7		Oklahoma	B12	3.3176	0.9995	25.0
7		Marquette	BE	3.2845	0.9995	21.0
8		Connecticut	BE	3.2360	0.9994	16.0
8	X	Arkansas	SEC	3.0430	0.9988	24.0
8		West Virginia	BE	2.8019	0.9975	29.0
8		South Alabama	SB	2.7524	0.9970	40.0
9	X	Davidson	SC	2.7035	0.9966	39.0
9		Illinois St.	MVC	2.4999	0.9938	36.0
9		Dayton	A10	2.3460	0.9905	31.0
9		Baylor	B12	2.3074	0.9895	37.0
10		Purdue	B10	2.1325	0.9835	49.0
10		Mississippi St.	SEC	1.9603	0.9750	38.0
10		Miami FL	ACC	1.9303	0.9732	34.0
10		Arizona	P10	1.7779	0.9623	35.0
11		Texas A&M	B12	1.7277	0.9580	33.0
11	X	Temple	A10	1.3452	0.9107	48.0
11		St. Mary's	WCC	1.2575	0.8957	44.0
11		Kentucky	SEC	1.1133	0.8672	45.0
12		Ohio St.	B10	1.0032	0.8421	46.0
12	X	Western Kentucky	SB	0.9146	0.8198	43.0
12		Virginia Commonwealth	CAA	0.5837	0.7203	56.0
12		Mississippi	SEC	0.3163	0.6241	47.0
13	X	Oral Roberts	Sum	-0.0066	0.4974	65.0
13	X	George Mason	CAA	-0.4561	0.3242	68.0
13	X	Boise St.	WAC	-0.6232	0.2666	77.0
13	X	Cornell	Ivy	-1.4342	0.0758	78.0
14	X	Siena	MAAC	-1.5733	0.0578	69.0
14	X	Belmont	ASun	-2.0613	0.0196	93.0
14	X	Austin Peay	OVC	-3.1688	0.0008	108.0
14	X	Cal St. Fullerton	BW	-3.3713	0.0004	83.0
15	X	American	Pat	-3.5097	0.0002	101.0
15	X	Portland St.	BSky	-3.5339	0.0002	115.0
15	X	San Diego	WCC	-3.6046	0.0002	85.0
15	X	MD Baltimore County	AE	-4.5501	0.0000	112.0
16	X	Winthrop	BSth	-5.3920	0.0000	117.0
16	X	Mount St. Mary's	NEC	-8.7070	0.0000	164.0
16	X	Texas Arlington	Slnd	-8.9460	0.0000	154.0
play-in	X	Mississippi Valley St.	SWAC	-15.2318	0.0000	243.0
play-in	X	Coppin St.	MEAC	-17.1328	0.0000	248.0

Thanks to Ken Pomeroy for the schedules data, Jeff Sagarin for the use of PREDICTOR, and Jay Coleman for help with the Dance Card methodology.
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