This is pretty cool. I posted some impressions on Lunardi's bracket yesterday: http://www.cougarboard.com/board/message.html?id=13778775 and am curious about your thoughts.

I also just had a long discussion with a coworker about the bracket breakdown. Seems like a lot of BYU's chances and seeding are going to depend on whether the favorites in some of the MWC type conferences win their conference autobid, or whether some dark horse takes the autobid and the favorite gets an at large.

Looking at Lunardi's bracket specifically, but I'm sure this is true of most brackets, it seems like one major weakness is that there doesn't seem to be a lot of work that goes into determining who is going to get the autobid in any specific conference. They just slap the current regular season leader in the autobid spot without considering the remainder of the conference schedule or recent W/L records. The MWC conference is a good example. It seems unlikely that Boise is going to win the title and get the autobid. If they don't, there really isn't a good argument for them being ahead of BYU, if they go dancing at all. Further, SDSU's resume is less than stellar (they should be seeded higher than BYU, but 7 is likely too high) and if SDSU loses early in the MWC tourney, they might fall behind a team like BYU.