The brackets indeed worked out like I expected. On Wednesday, the schedule is as follows.

Noon - Tulsa (7) vs. East Carolina (10)
2:30 - UTEP (6) vs. SMU (11)
6:00 - Marshall (8) vs. Tulane (9)
8:30 - Southern Miss (5) vs. Rice (12)

Memphis will play Thursday at 6 p.m. against the winner of Marshall/Tulane.

Though Ken Pomeroy hasn’t posted his updated RPIs this morning, Memphis fans should be rooting for Marshall, at least from an RPI perspective. Marshall should be somewhere in the 130s today when the numbers come out, while Tulane is somewhere around 170.

In the semifinals, Memphis would play either Southern Miss or UCF. Southern Miss has a better RPI by some 30 spots, but that would clearly be a more difficult game for Memphis than UCF, which really doesn’t match up athletically with the Tigers.

A couple more interesting bracket notes:
- If Tulsa gets by East Carolina, the Golden Hurricane will get UAB in the quarterfinals. That’s a rematch of their game in Birmingham on Wednesday. Though UAB won, 84-70, multiple people have told me that Tulsa could have and perhaps should have won that game. Tulsa is playing probably as well as anybody in the league right now outside of Memphis, having won 7-of-9 down the stretch (the losses were at Memphis and at UAB). I would not be shocked if Tulsa makes it through that game and all the way to the final.

- UTEP has an interesting draw. First, it faces an SMU team that the Miners lost to last Saturday in Dallas. Then, if they get by that one, they’ll play Houston, whom they beat last night. Houston now is completely off the bubble with that loss, and they need to win the league tournament to get an NCAA bid. I think the Cougars will turn the tables on a neutral court.