Comments/Questions? awhuffma@gmail.com

My bracket is part of the bracket matrix. Entry RWX. It is my 6^th year doing a bracket and you can see my ranking here:

http://www.bracketmatrix.com/rankings.html.

** March 12^th  2023 Bracketology** FINAL

Seed	Power	Team
1 1 Houston 1 2 Kansas 1 3 Alabama 1 4 Purdue 2 5 UCLA 2 6 Texas 2 7 Arizona 2 8 Marquette 3 9 Gonzaga 3 10 Baylor 3 11 Kansas St. 3 12 UConn 4 13 Xavier 4 14 Tennessee 4 15 Virginia 4 16 Indiana 5 17 Duke 5 18 Texas A&M 5 19 San Diego St. 5 20 Miami (FL) 6 21 Iowa St. 6 22 TCU 6 23 Missouri 6 24 Saint Mary's (CA) 7 25 Kentucky 7 26 Northwestern 7 27 Creighton 7 28 Michigan St. 8 29 Arkansas 8 30 Memphis 8 31 Penn St. 8 32 Maryland 9 33 Iowa 9 34 Illinois 9 35 Fla. Atlantic 9 36 West Virginia 10 37 Auburn 10 38 Boise St. 10 39 Southern California 10 40 Utah St. 11 41 Providence 11 42 NC State 11a 43 Rutgers 11a 44 Mississippi St. 11b 45 Arizona St. 11b 46 Pittsburgh 12 47 Col. of Charleston 12 48 VCU 12 49 Drake 12 50 Oral Roberts 13 51 Kent St. 13 52 Louisiana 13 53 Iona 13 54 Furman 14 55 Kennesaw St. 14 56 UC Santa Barbara 14 57 Grand Canyon 14 58 Vermont 15 59 Princeton 15 60 Montana St. 15 61 Colgate 15 62 UNC Asheville 16 63 Northern Kentucky 16 64 Texas A&M CC 16a 65 Howard 16a 66 SEMO 16a 67 Fairleigh Dickinson 16a 68 Texas Southern

Last Four In:  Pittsburgh, Arizona St., Mississippi St., Rutgers

First Four Out: Oklahoma St., Wisconsin, Vanderbilt, Nevada

Next Four Out: Clemson, UNC, Oregon, Michigan

 

Comments:

-       This is my field of 68. I may tweak seedings a bit based on the results today but not much and obviously if Yale or VCU lose their spots in the field will be replaced.

-       I went with Purdue as the final 1 seed and will leave it at that.

-       Pitt is my last team in, but IMO it comes down to Pitt, ASU, Oklahoma State for the last 2 spots. I would have no qualm if it is Oklahoma State or even Wisconsin, although I don’t think it will be Wisconsin. The main reason I have OSU out is their 6-12 record vs Q1 and 18-15 overall record.

 

Notes on my selection process:

1.     I don’t create matchups. My goal is to match the NCAA S Curve and select the right teams. Honestly the bracketing procedures are too tedious.

2.     Conference champions (red teams) in the pre-conference tournament brackets are picked by the team with the highest conference winning % at time of bracket creation. If there is a tie, the team with the highest NET is picked.

3.     Brackets will be updated at least on Monday and Friday. As we get closer to the end of the season and during conference tournament weeks, it will be updated every day.