Bracketology 2023: It’s Time to Flip This Effort right into a Day by day Present

Enterprise time has arrived, so let’s leap proper into the bracket earlier than what’s to come back on the ultimate Saturday of the common season.

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  ChrisDobbertean
  
• on March 4, 2023 10:27 am

Text-Only Bracket for Screen Readers and Seed List

Key:

• Convention logos point out auto bid holders.
• Numbers in pink squares point out workforce’s place within the bracket’s prime 16 (prime 4 seed traces).
• Colours subsequent to seed numbers point out bracket motion: yellow (new), inexperienced (seed up), pink (seed down) relative to Tuesday’s bracket.

Graphics by Chris Dobbertean utilizing logos from both SportsLogos.net, Wikimedia Commons, or the establishments’ web sites.

Lowest-ranked NET at-large: Arizona State (63)
Lowest-ranked KenPom at-large: Arizona State (63)

Highest-ranked NET exclusion: North Carolina (44)
Highest-ranked KenPom exclusion: Oregon (41)

Bids By Convention

23 single-bid conferences

Ins and Outs (2, 1 at-large)

New Entrants: Utah State, Tennessee Tech (OVC)

Out For Now: Wisconsin, Morehead State (OVC)

Let me put it this fashion, the one groups on the “into consideration” board who received’t be in motion right now are:

• New Mexico (which has actually fallen down the pecking order, their loss at Colorado State on Friday night time moved their mark to 3-8 since knocking off Boise State in additional time on January twentieth)
• NC State (who’s the ACC workforce on a bye right now)
• All of Houston, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Memphis, Northwestern, Penn State, Purdue, Rutgers, and Wisconsin, who full their common seasons tomorrow.
• The Badgers are out of the sphere for the second with Utah State changing them. The Aggies’ NET now stands at 21. If that statistic isn’t utterly meaningless, they received’t be overlooked with that top of a rating.

There’s additionally not less than one automated bid up for grabs tonight when Tennessee Tech (final NCAA look: 1963) meets Southeast Missouri State (final bid: 2000) within the OVC last in Evansville (8 p.m., ESPN2). Nonetheless, two could find yourself being awarded tonight, as the primary NEC semifinal sees top-seeded Merrimack, ineligible for each the NCAA and NIT in its last reclassification yr hosts Sacred Coronary heart (6 p.m., SNY/ESPN3/NEC Front Row). If the Warriors defeat the Pioneers, the winner of the second semifinal—St. Francis (Pa.) at Fairleigh Dickinson (8 p.m., SNY/ESPN3/NEC Front Row)—earns the bid no matter the results of Tuesday night time’s title sport. The Purple Flash final certified in 1991, whereas the Knights represented the NEC in 2019. Sacred Coronary heart, in the meantime, has by no means certified for the Division I match.

Word that each the NEC and OVC champs are extraordinarily more likely to find yourself within the First 4 in Dayton.

Right now’s slate additionally options loads of convention match seeding intrigue, notably within the Massive West, Convention USA, Ivy League, and SWAC.

All occasions are p.m. Japanese except famous.

Groups within the projected area are bolded. Groups nonetheless in rivalry are italicized. The order of significance inside every window is my editorial resolution.

For convention match schedules, please go to Conference Tournament Central, that includes day by day schedule on the prime of the web page.

Alabama at Texas A&M, 12 (CBS)
Iowa State at Baylor, 12 (ESPN2)
Penn at Princeton, 12 (ESPN Information/ESPN+ ($))
Seton Corridor at Windfall, 12 (Fox)
Ohio State at Michigan State, 12 (ESPN)
UAB at Charlotte, 1 (Stadium)

Tennessee at Auburn, 2 (ESPN)
Kentucky at Arkansas, 2 (CBS)
Kansas State at West Virginia, 2 (ESPN+ ($))
TCU at Oklahoma, 3 (ESPN+ ($))
St. John’s at Marquette, 2 (Fox)
Florida Atlantic at Louisiana Tech, 3 (ESPN+ ($))
Columbia at Cornell, 2 (ESPN+ ($))
Yale at Brown, 2 (ESPN+ ($))
Western Kentucky at North Texas, 3 (Stadium)
Louisville at Virginia, 2 (ESPN2)

Kansas at Texas, 4 (ESPN)
Ole Miss at Missouri, 3:30 (SECN)
UNLV at Nevada, 5 (NSN, Bally SoCal/San Diego, Stadium School Sports activities Central, MWN)
Stanford at Oregon, 4 (CBS)
Florida State at Virginia Tech, 4 (ESPN2)
VCU at George Washington, 4:30 (USA)
Wake Forest at Syracuse, 5 (ACC RSNs/ACCNX)

Pittsburgh at Miami, 6 (ACCN)
Duke at North Carolina, 6:30 (ESPN)
Oklahoma State at Texas Tech, 6 (ESPN2)
Butler at Xavier, 7 (FS1)
Alcorn State at Arkansas-Pine Bluff, 6:30 (UAPB stream)
Alabama State at Grambling State, 6:30 (GSU stream)
Iona at Rider, 7 (ESPN+ ($))
Utah at Colorado, 5:30 (Pac-12 Networks)

UConn at Villanova, 7:30 (Fox)
Notre Dame at Clemson, 8 (ACCN)

Boise State at Utah State, 9 (Stadium School Sports activities Central, MWN)
Mississippi State at Vanderbilt, 8:30 (SECN)
Hawai’i at UC Santa Barbara, 9 (ESPNU/ESPN+ ($))
Cal State Bakersfield at UC Irvine, 9 (ESPN+ ($))
Creighton at DePaul, 9 (FS1)

Arizona at UCLA, 10 (ESPN)
Arizona State at USC, 11 (FS1)
Wyoming at San Diego State, 10 (CBSSN)
UC Riverside at Cal Poly, 10 (ESPN+ ($))

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