NCAA men s basketball bracket projected about 100 days from Selection Sunday
NCAA men's basketball bracket, projected about 100 days from Selection Sunday NCAA.com
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PRESENTED BY Just about 100 days from Selection Sunday for men's college basketball, NCAA.com basketball expert Andy Katz filled out a March Madness bracket based on everything he has seen so far this season. Last year, Katz filed almost a dozen bracket predictions throughout the season. In his final prediction before Selection Sunday, he got 67 of the 68 teams correct. He filled out a , 50 days before opening night. Let's take a look at where Katz has teams standing about a month into the season, and about 100 days away from Selection Sunday. (.) DUKE GOES DOWN: And here's that same bracket in table form. MIDWEST WEST SOUTH EAST 1 Michigan Louisville Kansas Virginia 16 Lafayette Grambling/Bethune-Cookman Wright State Sacred Heart/Campbell 2 North Carolina Gonzaga Ohio State Maryland 15 Sacramento State South Dakota UMKC Rider 3 Kentucky Michigan State Duke Auburn 14 Hawaii Hofstra Harvard Texas State 4 Baylor Arizona Florida State Oregon 13 Belmont UTEP Bowling Green UNCG 5 Seton Hall West Virginia Colorado Dayton 12 Richmond/BYU Liberty Vermont Northern Iowa 6 Washington Oklahoma State Tennessee Memphis 11 Iowa State Mississippi State Stephen F. Austin Texas Tech/USC 7 Saint Mary's San Diego State Florida Texas 10 Purdue Penn State VCU Butler 8 Temple Xavier Utah State Villanova 9 DePaul Arkansas Marquette Oklahoma Let's take a closer look at Katz's bracket. AP TOP 25:Michigan Louisville Kansas Virginia take No 1 seeds
From Katz's preseason predictions, things have changed for the top seeds. Louisville and Kansas remain among the four top seeds, but Michigan and Louisville enter the pack, replacing Michigan State and Kentucky. First-year head coach Juwan Howard has his Wolverines riding high. They're off to a 7-0 start and won the Battle 4 Atlantis Championship, topping North Carolina and Gonzaga along the way. Michigan's Zavier Simpson leads the nation in assists, dishing out 9.7 dimes per-game. After losing its season opener to Duke, Kansas has won six straight. Devon Dotson leads the Jayhawks with 19.7 points per-game. Meanwhile, Virginia -- the defending national champions -- is off to a 7-0 start after surviving tight games against Vermont and Arizona State. The Cavaliers might have lost a trio of starters from last year's squad to the NBA, but Tony Bennett's side still has the top defense in the nation, allowing 40.3 points per-game. NOVEMBER NUTTERY: Katz is high on the ACC at this point in the season. In his overall seed list, he has Virginia at third, Louisville fourth, North Carolina eighth and Duke ninth. Katz has just one SEC team in his top 10 -- putting Kentucky 10th -- and didn't rank a Pac-12 team until 13th, where Arizona checks in. Gonzaga is Katz's highest-ranked team which doesn't come from a Power 5 conference, the Big East or the American, with the Bulldogs checking in at seventh, making them the No. 2 seed in the West. Dayton, of the Atlantic 10, checks in at 18th, giving the Flyers the No. 5 seed in the East. Katz's last four in for at-large bids were BYU, Richmond, USC and 2019 runner-up Texas Tech. KATZ'S CRYSTAL BALL: Here's Katz's full field of 68... Rank Seed Team Conference 1. 1 -- Michigan (AQ) Big Ten 2. 1 -- Kansas (AQ) Big 12 3. 1 -- Virginia (AQ) ACC 4. 1 -- Louisville ACC 5. 2 -- Maryland Big Ten 6. 2 -- Ohio State Big Ten 7. 2 -- Gonzaga (AQ) WCC 8. 2 -- North Carolina ACC 9. 3 -- Duke ACC 10. 3 -- Kentucky SEC 11. 3 -- Michigan State Big Ten 12. 3 -- Auburn (AQ) SEC 13. 4 -- Arizona (AQ) Pac-12 14. 4 -- Baylor Big 12 15. 4 -- Florida State ACC 16. 4 -- Oregon Pac-12 17. 5 -- Seton Hall (AQ) Big East 18. 5 --- Dayton (AQ) Atlantic 10 19. 5 -- West Virginia Big 12 20. 5 -- Colorado Pac-12 21. 6 -- Tennessee SEC 22. 6 -- Washington Pac-12 23. 6 -- Memphis (AQ) American 24. 6 -- Oklahoma State Big 12 25. 7 -- Florida SEC 26. 7 -- San Diego State (AQ) MWC 27. 7 -- Saint Mary's WCC 28. 7 -- Texas Big 12 29. 8 -- Temple American 30. 8 -- Utah State MWC 31. 8 -- Xavier Big East 32. 8 -- Villanova Big East 33. 9 -- Arkansas SEC 34. 9 -- Marquette Big East 35. 9 -- DePaul Big East 36. 9 -- Oklahoma Big 12 37. 10 -- Butler Big East 38. 10 -- Purdue Big Ten 39. 10 -- VCU Atlantic 10 40. 10 -- Penn State Big Ten 41. 11 -- Mississippi State SEC 42. 11 -- Iowa State Big 12 43. 11 -- Texas Tech Big 12 44. 11 -- USC Pac-12 45. 11 -- Stephen F. Austin (AQ) Southland 46. 11 -- Richmond Atlantic 10 47. 12 -- BYU WCC 48. 12 -- Liberty (AQ) ASUN 49. 12 -- Vermont (AQ) America East 50. 12 -- Northern Iowa (AQ) MVC 51. 13 -- Belmont (AQ) OVC 52. 13 -- UNC Greensboro (AQ) SoCon 53. 13 -- UTEP (AQ) CUSA 54. 13 -- Bowling Green (AQ) MAC 55. 14 -- Hawaii (AQ) Big West 56. 14 -- Hofstra (AQ) CAA 57. 14 -- Harvard (AQ) Ivy 58. 14 -- Texas State (AQ) Sun Belt 59. 15 -- UMKC (AQ) WAC 60. 15 -- Rider (AQ) MAAC 61. 15 -- South Dakota (AQ) Summit 62. 15 -- Sacramento State (AQ) Big Sky 63. 16 -- Lafayette (AQ) Patriot 64. 16 -- Wright State (AQ) Horizon 65. 16 -- Grambling (AQ) SWAC 66. 16 -- Bethune-Cookman (AQ) MEAC 67. 16 -- Sacred Heart (AQ) NEC 68. 16 -- Campbell (AQ) Big SouthRANKINGS :
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