Syracuse Bracketology Edition III or Nitology Edition I

Syracuse is starting to find their way back into a few brackets after their win against Providence Sunday in the Dome. They are in four of the ten most recent brackets produced by sites that are apart of the Bracket Matrix. The remaining 18 brackets that are two or more days old feature Syracuse just twice. It looks like Syracuse's win has helped momentarily.

Syracuse averages an 11 seed in the six brackets they are.

Drew Barnett at Draft Express has Syracuse in as an 11 seed playing Drake in the first round. That game scares me a lot because Drake is a much better team that a lot of people give them credit for. They continue to win in the MVC, which could probably give the SEC and the A-10 a run for their money as the sixth and seventh best conferences in the country. The second round would be the winner of Texas and Siena. S.U. already beat Siena and Texas has as much depth as Syracuse which would make that game seem more winnable then the Drake game. Draft Express also has a great Syracuse clubhouse page with articles from over last summer about the current freshmen during international play.

March Madness 2008 is the website that is run by someone named "Syracuse Basketball," so he might be a little biased towards the Orange. He updated yesterday and has the Orange in as an 11 seed. Overall it's still a pretty solid bracket, not one of the best, but still really does a good job at who should be in and at what seed.

Nuge's Bracketology is fairly new. He has Syracuse in as an 11 seed and also isn't considered one of the last four in. He also keeps Villanova out of his bracket. His bracket is very solid except for the automatic bid teams from the minor leagues. For the most part, he didn't select, at least in my mind the best teams from some of the one bid leagues.

Shelby's Wild Ass Guesses updates daily and has Syracuse in the bracket. Syracuse goes into his bracket at a 10 seed. He has 10 teams in from the Big East which kind of seems like a stretch. Syracuse again doesn't fall into his last five in. Villanova does however. 'Nova is falling, and falling fast.

Those are the only new brackets Syracuse has appeared since the last update. If the bracket matrix updates again today with Syracuse in a new bracket, I'll add it to the list.

UPDATE: Joe Lunardi of ESPN.com released a new bracket today and Syracuse is one of his last four teams in. They are an 11 seed and would play Gonzaga in Little Rock. The winner would get the winner of Texas and Cal State-Northride. Villanova isn't even part of his last four out, but part of his next four out. He has Seton Hall and Providence ahead of 'Nova.

Fiddle's Bracketology also just put Syracuse in today as a 10 seed. His other 10 seeds include Dayton, Miami, and Mississippi St. There is no Villanova or Providence in this bracket.

As for the NIT, the bracket matrix uses an S curve to determine the NIT bracket. The NIT bracket hasn't been updated since last Monday, so it will probably be updated at some point today. I will also post that update when it happens. As for now, Syracuse is a one seed and would play Virginia Tech in the first round. The winner would play the winner of George Mason and Temple. Also in Syracuse's bracket is Wake Forest, Ohio, St. Joe's and California. That bracket would definitely been winnable for the Orange since all three of their games would be at home since they are the higher seed.