NCAA Males’s Event Bracketology for March 5, 2023

Choice Sunday is merely per week away and it appears like we nonetheless have a lot to study concerning the 2023 NCAA Males’s Event discipline.

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  ChrisDobbertean
  
• on March 5, 2023 12:20 pm

• Saturday’s large bubble winners included West Virginia (over Kansas State at dwelling), Auburn (over Tennessee at dwelling), Utah State (over Boise State, once more, at dwelling), USC (hey, hey, one other dwelling winner over fellow bubble group Arizona State), and Oklahoma State (an precise street win over Texas Tech).
• Becoming a member of the Crimson Raiders and Solar Devils (who dropped out) as losers are groups reminiscent of Pittsburgh (went from having a share of the ACC regular-season title to not even incomes a bye to the quarters after dropping at Miami), departure Nevada (who picked a horrible time to document two Quad 3 losses, first to Wyoming, then to UNLV), and North Carolina (who seemingly must win the ACC Event to bop).
• Wisconsin and Penn State change Arizona State and Nevada within the discipline, however each will likely be in motion in the present day (see the schedule under), so there will not be 10 Large Ten groups in tomorrow’s replace.
• On the high of the bracket, Kansas stays No. 1 total after each the Jayhawks and Alabama misplaced. Texas, who routed KU in Austin, strikes as much as a two seed, with Kansas State dropping to seed line 3 after dropping in Morgantown.
• Two groups are formally within the discipline. Southeast Missouri State recovered from Tennessee Tech’s overtime-forcing late rally to win the OVC title to qualify for the primary time since 2000. Within the Northeast Convention, top-seeded Merrimack defeated Sacred Coronary heart within the first semifinal, which allowed Fairleigh Dickinson to clinch its first bid since 2019 by topping St. Francis (Pa.) within the second semi. The Warriors are of their remaining reclassification yr, so they’re ineligible for the NCAA or NIT.

Text-Only Bracket for Screen Readers and Seed List

Key:

• Convention logos point out auto bid holders. If a group has secured its league’s auto bid, the convention brand will seem subsequent to the group brand. If a group is simply the regular-season champ/highest seed remaining within the convention match, the emblem will stay on the fitting.
• Numbers in purple squares point out group’s place within the bracket’s high 16 (high 4 seed traces).
• Colours subsequent to seed numbers point out bracket motion: yellow (new), inexperienced (seed up), purple (seed down) relative to Saturday’s bracket.

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

Lowest-ranked NET at-large: Wisconsin (78)
Lowest-ranked KenPom at-large: Wisconsin (71)

Highest-ranked NET exclusion: Nevada (38)
Highest-ranked KenPom exclusion: Nevada (39)

Bids By Convention

23 single-bid conferences

Ins and Outs (5, 2 at-large)

New Entrants: Louisiana (Solar Belt), Penn State, Sam Houston State (WAC), Southeast Missouri State (OVC), Wisconsins

Out For Now: Arizona State, Nevada, Southern Miss. (Solar Belt), Tennessee Tech (OVC), Utah Valley (WAC)

All instances are p.m. Jap except famous.

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

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

For starters, three computerized bids will likely be awarded in the present day:

• Common-season champ UNC Asheville meets 7 seed Campbell within the Large South title sport (1, ESPN2). Whereas the Bulldogs final appeared within the NCAAs in 2016, the Combating Camels’ drought dates again to 1992.
• The highest two seeds within the Arch Insanity remaining (2, CBS), Bradley and Drake, meet in a rubber match. The Braves final certified in 2019, whereas the Bulldogs earned an at-large in 2021. Keep in mind, the Valley normally delivers Championship Fortnight Drama!
• Final, however not least, the ASUN concludes with conventional energy Liberty (final NCAA bid, 2021)—in search of yet one more convention title earlier than heading off to Convention USA—visiting Kennesaw State (3, ESPN2). The Owls, additionally headed to C-USA ultimately, are one in all faculty basketball’s nice tales, as head coach Amir Abdur-Rahim has navigated this woebegone program to not solely a regular-season title, but it surely’s first ever successful season. How large of a deal is that this? KSU’s 25 wins smash this system’s earlier document of, uh, 14.

By way of regular-season finales, perhaps we’ll lastly get some readability on the Large Ten standings. Nevertheless. contemplating Purdue is 14-5 in convention play and Ohio State and Minnesota have mixed to win 7 league video games complete, the center could turn out to be too troublesome to untangle. Seven groups at present have 11-8 convention information, together with Michigan State, which wrapped up its regular-season yesterday. Then, Rutgers is in ninth at 10-9, with Penn State in tenth at 9-10, and Wisconsin and Nebraska tied for 11 at 8-11.

Good luck sorting that out, Rosemont!

Houston at Memphis, 12 (CBS)
Illinois at Purdue, 12:30 (Fox)
Maryland at Penn State, 12 (BTN)

Nebraska at Iowa, 2 (BTN)

Michigan at Indiana, 4:30 (CBS)

Northwestern at Rutgers, 7:30 (BTN)
Wisconsin at Minnesota, 7:30 (FS1)

I’ll have and replace tomorrow with the main target shifting to computerized bids for a few days.

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