Friday, March 7, 2025

Bracketology - 3/7/2025

As conference tournaments get underway, it's important to identify who the best Cinderellas are and which conference tournaments have them. Specifically, which conference tournaments do we want the favorite to win?

I love a chaotic conference tournament season as much as the next guy. But the more chaos there is among the conference tournies, the weaker the auto-bid seeds are. As a result, there's usually a chalkier NCAA tournament. On the flip side, the more favorites win, the stronger the auto-bids, and the more upsets there are.

So while it is always fun to see a surprise 12-21 team in the conference championship game, if you want a more chaotic NCAA bracket, root for the Drakes, the UC-San Diegos, and the High Points of the country. (Of course, in 2018, 12 seed Vermont was stunned in their conference title game and got replaced by 16 seed UMBC, and that ended up working out, to say the least. So, you never know).

As always, go to http://www.bracketmatrix.com/ for more brackets!

 

1 Seeds

1 Auburn

2 Duke

3 Houston

4 Florida

2 Seeds

5 Alabama

6 Tennessee

7 Michigan St

8 Wisconsin

3 Seeds

9 St Johns

10 Texas Tech

11 Kentucky

12 Texas A&M

4 Seeds

13 Iowa St

14 Purdue

15 Arizona

16 Clemson

5 Seeds

17 Michigan

18 Missouri

19 Maryland

20 St Marys

6 Seeds

21 Oregon

22 Louisville

23 Marquette

24 Ole Miss

7 Seeds

25 Kansas

26 Illinois

27 BYU

28 Memphis

8 Seeds

29 Mississippi St

30 UCLA

31 Gonzaga

32 Connecticut

9 Seeds

33 Creighton

34 New Mexico

35 Vanderbilt

36 Georgia

10 Seeds

37 Utah St

38 Baylor

39 West Virginia

40 San Diego St

11 Seeds

41 VCU

42 Drake

43 Indiana

44 Arkansas

45 Oklahoma

12 Seeds

46 Ohio St

47 Boise St

48 UC San Diego

49 McNeese

50 Liberty

13 Seeds

51 Yale

52 High Point

53 Arkansas St

54 Akron

14 Seeds

55 Lipscomb

56 Chattanooga

57 Utah Valley

58 Northern Colorado

15 Seeds

59 Towson

60 Robert Morris

61 CCSU

62 Norfolk St

16 Seeds

63 Bryant

64 Omaha

65 Southern

66 Quinnipiac

67 American

68 SEMO


Last Four In
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Ohio St
Boise St

First Four Out
North Carolina
Xavier
Nebraska
Texas

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