In his first bracketology of the season, ESPN college basketball analyst Joe Lunardi has George Washington as a No. 8 seed in the South region while he pegs Georgetown as a No. 9 seed in the East.
He projects both D.C. universities, located less than two miles apart, to play opening-round games in Charlotte as he predicts the Colonials to open with LSU (and could face Virginia in the second round) and the Hoyas to square off with Stanford.
George Washington burst onto the national scene by upsetting No. 11 Wichita State to win the Diamond Head Classic in Honolulu en route to an 11-3 start this season. The Colonials are also ranked 23rd in the country in RPI at .6254.
Boasting one of Coach John Thompson III's youngest squads he's ever had in the nation's capital, the Hoyas bounced back from a 17-point loss New Year's Eve at Xavier with a 76-61 win over Creighton at the Verizon Center on Saturday.
Georgetown, a 9-4 squad that ranks 37th in RPI at .5994, has losses to Wisconsin, Butler and Kansas but has big wins over Florida and Indiana.
This is Lunardi's first week of bracketology and will continue weekly until Selection Sunday on March 15. The Charlotte region will host second and third round games March 20 and 22 at the Time Warner Cable Arena, the same venue the NBA's Hornets call home.
Source : http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/dc-sports-bog/wp/2015/01/05/bracketology-has-georgetown-and-gw-headed-in-same-direction/
