HappeningHoops.com CBI/CIT Bracketology 2020-21 Pre-Season

By: Ethan Hennessy

I will admit this was the most difficult CBI/CIT bracketology I have ever put together because it is like you are trying to throw a dart at a moving dart board that may be taken off the wall before you even get a chance to throw. In other words who knows if there will be a 2020-21 season, how it will look, or if these tournaments will even be able to run. Let’s hope for the best, and in the mean time these are how I foresee the fields looking in March before we tip off the first games on opening night.

As a disclaimer team budgets are usually one of the many factors I calculate into the process of predicting the fields, but this time given all the uncertainty it proved to be a major factor.

CBI (16 teams)

Virginia Tech Region (East)

• Virginia Tech (ACC)
• Coastal Carolina (Sun Belt)
• Brown (Ivy)
• Iona (MAAC)

Vanderbilt Region (Midwest)

• Vanderbilt (SEC)
• Southern Illinois (MVC)
• Louisiana Tech (CUSA)
• Navy (Patriot)

Georgia Region (South)

• Georgia (SEC)
• Chattanooga (SoCon)
• South Alabama (Sun Belt)
• Tarleton State (WAC)

Grand Canyon Region (West)

• Grand Canyon (WAC)
• Long Beach State (Big West)
• Pacific (WCC)
• UC San Diego (Big West)

CIT (TBD Number of Teams)

East

• Merrimack (NEC)
• NJIT (America East)
• Army (Patriot)

Midwest

• Bellarmine (ASUN)
• Youngstown State (Horizon)
• Missouri State (MVC)
• Robert Morris (Horizon)
• Marshall (CUSA)

South

• Abilene Christian (Southland)
• App State (Sun Belt)
• Arkansas State (Sun Belt)
• Norfolk State (MEAC)
• Tennessee State (OVC)
• Western Carolina (SoCon)
• Sam Houston State (Southland)
• Oral Roberts (Summit)

West

• California Baptist (WAC)
• Southern Utah (Big Sky)
• UC Santa Barbara (Big West)
• UC Riverside (Big West)