The Completed Draft

Here is the entire draft along with some quick commentary on a few picks...

1. Texas Default pick for Stimpy

2. Michigan St Default pick for Ren

Sparty stampeded by the Longhorns!!

3. Kansas the actual first pick of the draft

4. Villanova the guy who picks second (REN) is at a disadvantage so he gets 2 picks in a row to begin

5. Purdue

6. UNC

7. Kentucky

8. Duke

9. Syracuse

10. W Virginia

11. U Conn (this pick by REN was made FOUR weeks after pick #10 Inexcusable!)
12. Tennessee- could be a real bad pick if Tyler Smith and co. are suspended for long for drug/weapon charges

13. Kansas St

14. Georgetown - A risky pick for a team that didn't make the tourney last year?

15. Washington

16. Mississippi St

17. New Mexico 

18. Wisconsin

19. Clemson

20. Louisville

21. Texas Tech

22. Cincinnati

23. Temple

24. Ole Miss

25. Florida St

26. Ohio St - could be a boom/bust pick depending on how the Buckeyes fare in Evan Turner's absence

27. UAB

28. BYU

29. Northwestern

30. Cal

31. Georgia Tech

32. Florida

33. Gonzaga

34. Oklahoma St.
35. St. Mary's

36. Texas A and M

37. Baylor

38. Wake Forest

39. Memphis

40. Butler

41. Miami (FL)

42. Pittsburgh

43. Dayton

44. N Iowa

45. Rhode Island

46. Cornell - The Ivy League has no conference tournament, which always makes this pick a good bet. The Big Red also happen to be one of the most experienced midmajor clubs around.  

47.  Virginia Tech

48.  Xavier

49.  Boston College

50.  Minnesota

51.  Morgan St (???!!!) - Really???  A team from the MEAC conference that is destined for a 15th seed IF they win their conference???  Easily the most questionable pick of the draft so far.

52.  UNLV

53.  Vermont - Okay I take that back about Morgan St.  At least they are the clear cut favorites in their conference.  Vermont is A favorite in the American East but certainly not alone in the discussion.  Anyway you slice it the Catamounts are no lock for the tourney.

54.  Tulsa

55.  Coastal Carolina
56.  Utah St - a bad pick by Stimpy as this team is clearly not as strong as the Gary Wilkinson led squad of 2009.

57.  Lehigh

58.  W Carolina

59.  Loyola Marymount - A 3rd team in the WCC for Ren is puzzling.  Ren already picked both Gonzaga and St. Mary's and while the Lions are having a tremendous bounce back season from 3-26 last year, it will be a miraculous achievement to knock out the powerhouse Bulldogs from their WCC perch.  But the Lions have posted huge wins over USC and Notre Dame...

60.  Army

61.  E Tenn St

62.  Siena

63.  Belmont - Good job Ren way to secure two teams in the Atlantic Sun.  Oh by the way, Jacksonville is the preseason favorite despite their 3-8 record and Campbell has had the best start.
64.  Radford

65. Wisconsin Green Bay

66  William and Mary - Stimpy jumped the gun on a nice early season success story that may have already peaked.  Despite impressive wins over Wake Forest, Maryland and VCU, the recent loss to UNC Wilmington could spell doom for WM's hopes of an at-large bid.   

67.  Oakland

68.  Illinois

Which brings us to pick #69.  10 pesos to anyone who can guess who Ren picked at 69.  I'll put it in another post so no peeking!!

70.  College of Charleston- Stimpy secures a powerful 1-2 punch in the SoCon w/ W Carolina and C of Charleston

71.  Robert Morris
72.  Akron
73.  IUPUI - Gotta say this was a good pick by Ren as you'll see later
74.  Harvard - Stick it to Ren-  The Ivy has no soup for you!  (Cornell and Harvard are clear favorites in a league that has no postseason tournament)
75.  Sacred Heart - Why why why would Ren want a second NEC team so early??? 

76.  Missouri St

77.  Stephen F Austin

78.  VCU

79.  UT San Antonio

80.  W Kentucky - the Hilltoppers are only the most successful midmajor pick in the history of this draft.  Every year Ren scoffs at Big Red and pays the price when they go two rounds in the tournament.  Lest we forget 2 years ago these guys gave UCLA all it could handle in the sweet 16.
81.  Wichita St - Ren thinks he's the shiznit with this pick and while the Shockers are a dangerous team, like almost all of the picks lately aren't guaranteed squat unless they win their conference tourney.

82.  S Alabama

83.  Pacific

84.  Notre Dame - they lost to LMU!  (Stimpy does a little dance)...but they do still have POY candidate Luke Harangody who can win a game by himself.  If only this team played something resembling defense. 

85.  UC Irvine

86.  Missouri
87.  UC Riverside - 3 Big West teams in a row?  Oh and you can throw a dart and pick the winner of this hotly contested conference this year too.

88.   Weber St

89.   Texas A & M Corpus Christi - they did give Texas a scare at Frank Erwin.
90.   Portland - Stimpy's answer to the 3 headed WCC hydra of Gonzaga/St. Mary's/LMU.  All the Pilots did during a 4 day stetch in November was beat UCLA, Oregon, and Minnesota in succession. 
91.   E Kentucky 
92.   Murray St. -

93.   Kent St

94.   Michigan

95.   Arizona St - Ren's first BCS pick since pick #49!

96.   Oregon - the return of Tajuan Porter to the lineup makes the Ducks a lot more dangerous as evident by their unlikely sweep of Wash/Wash St to open 2010. 

97.   Prairie View 

98.   Washington St

99.   Montana 

100.  Old Dominion 

101.  Hofstra

102.  Long Beach St

103.  N Texas

104.  Fairfield

105.  Louisiana Tech

106.  Vanderbilt

107.  Alabama

108.  Marquette

109.  San Diego St

110.  Seton Hall

111.  Nebraska

112.  Campbell

113.  Rider

114.  Sam Houston St

115.  George Washington

116.  Quinnipiac

117.  Denver 

118.  Richmond

119.  UCLA - Weren't these guys in the final four just 2 years ago?

120.  Buffalo

121.  Penn St

122.  Maryland

123.  Texas Southern

124.  Nevada

125.  Davidson - No more Stephen Curry makes Davidson's chance all the more blurry! 

126.  Stonybrook

127.  S Illinois

128.  Illiniois St

129   Oklahoma

130.  Iowa St

131.  N Colorado - Extra pick since Texas mangled Michigan St this year.

Later on we'll analyze some of the biggest snubs in this year's draft.