And the end is here. Overall, the MRI called 21 of the 31 conference champions in the tournament. I think it did a pretty good job considering I had the team in the Championship game in every game but 6. So now it is tournament time. Not a lot of commentary this week because I don't want to give away all my picks.

I do want to say that there were 4 teams that made the tournament that I feel are a tragedy: Georgia, Georgia Tech, Penn State, Missouri. There was a bunch of talk about this on the shows tonight and it was all about who they played. I still don't feel that going 16-14 is good enough no matter who you play. The MRIs of these teams were all quite far from the top 50.

Final conference ratings this year: ACC, SEC, Big Ten, Big East, PAC-10, Big 12

And now the rankings:

Rank Team MRI Last

1 Duke 234.36 1

2 Michigan State 202.64 2

3 Stanford 188.50 3

4 Boston College 170.12 8

5 Arizona 168.02 4

6 Illinois 160.61 5

7 Maryland 148.57 7

8 Georgetown 150.06 6

9 Kansas 142.13 12

10 Oklahoma 137.64 15

11 Fresno State 136.71 9

12 Virginia 135.53 11

13 Iowa State 134.81 10

14 Kentucky 133.87 21

15 Creighton 132.07 14

16 Florida 131.33 16

17 Hofstra 128.29 17

18 Wake Forest 127.88 13

19 North Carolina 119.97 19

20 Texas 119.90 20

21 Western Kentucky 119.64 22

22 TCU 117.09 18

23 Temple 116.98 NR

24 Indiana 116.01 24

25 Butler 115.40 25

Teams Dropped from the Top 25:

Providence (LW #23, TW #27)

Teams people might care about

RANK TEAM MRI LW

32 Iowa 105.87 52

40 Notre Dame 97.94 34

67 Purdue 77.60 60

79 Miami 69.44 74

134 Drexel 41.56 137

Worst team of the year: Arkansas-Pine Bluff at -123.58 (9th straight week in last place and 11 of 13 weeks that I reported the last team.)

Enjoy and good luck in the pools

B