Conference championship week is here! Although the regionals field is almost completely decided, there are still many storylines to follow with regard to rankings. Let’s get right into it with a bracket projection!
Regionals Projection: Teams
| Ann Arbor | Berkeley | Fayetteville | Gainesville |
| 1. Oklahoma | 2. California | 3. LSU | 4. Florida |
| 8. Denver | 7. Alabama | 6. Kentucky | 5. Utah |
| 10. Michigan | 9. Michigan State | 12. Arkansas | 11. UCLA |
| 16. Ohio State | 15. Minnesota | 14. Auburn | 13. Missouri |
| 17. Oregon State | 20. Stanford | 19. N.C. State | 18. Georgia |
| 23. Kent State | 21. Arizona State | 22. Arizona | 25. Towson |
| 24. Penn State | 27. Washington | 26. Nebraska | 28. Maryland |
| 31. Illinois | 30. Boise State | 32. Southern Utah | 29. Clemson |
| 35. Ball State | 33. San Jose State | 33. BYU | 36. Iowa State |
There were two hosting conflicts to resolve this week, but luckily they were simple to project, with Arkansas switching with UCLA and Michigan switching with Michigan State. As always, teams in bold are assigned to the region in question due to being located within 400 miles of the host, and BYU was assigned to Fayetteville because it does not compete on Sundays. We arranged the remainder of the teams in the bracket using loose geographical criteria while trying to keep no more than four conference members in a particular location and also attempting…
