#UPDATED MARCH MADNESS BRACKET UPDATE#
Look for an update on Friday ahead of the NCAA top 16 reveal on Saturday and an updated bracket following the weekend’s action next Monday. A win there and you would have to consider Creighton in the fight for the regular season Big East title as the Jays have five of their final eight at home. The Jays have another key road game Wednesday at Providence. The Bluejays have won four in a row including taking down Villanova on the road on Saturday.
If they fail to garner more quality wins they could be out of the field soon. Despite a nice record and a NET in the mid-thirties, the Razorbacks have only beaten one team that is currently in the field (Indiana). In the bracket but fading fast: Arkansas. 15 when they begin a 22-day stretch in which they face the top teams in the Big 12. As we said last week, the Bears can have it on cruise control until Feb. A top-four seed is not out of the question as they will have many opportunities in the Big Ten.īest team: Baylor. After taking down Big Ten rival Illinois on Sunday the Hawkeyes vaulted to a five seed. NEXT FOUR OUT: Minnesota, Virginia Tech, NC State, Alabama LAST FOUR IN: Virginia, Xavier, VCU, Texas TechįIRST FOUR OUT: Mississippi State, Georgetown, Arizona State, Purdue
However, multiple losses do throw up a red flag. Bad teams are not going to make the dance, so a loss to one of these teams is hardly a problem. Everyone can lose from time to time, but wins over Q1 and Q2 opponents are generally wins over teams you will see in the NCAA tourney. How You Played: How many quality wins does your team have? Impressive wins can come in all shapes and sizes, but generally Q1 and Q2 wins are considered quality wins.Ī note about bad losses: Good wins help you more than bad losses hurt you.
Teams are not necessarily helped by a good road/neutral record but a bad one may hurt you. The reason for this metric is simple: The NCAA tourney is not played on home sites. This has been devalued some over the last few years but still is a factor. Where You Played: This translates to a team’s road record.Non-conference SOS is also important and can point out a team that inflated its record by beating up on inferior competition. More often than not, it helps you break ties between teams with similar resumes. SOS can often be the difference in a seed line or even whether or not you make the field. Who You Played: This is a team’s strength of schedule.While some committees focus on particular metrics more than others, the committee’s mantra has always been these three factors: who you played, where you played them and how you played. My many years of participating in this exercise has taught me a lot about the common threads that go through each committee, even though they change members each year. What I try to do is replicate what the committee would do if Selection Sunday was today. With 16 games under our belt after Thursday’s action, let’s take a look at the updated 2023 NCAA Tournament bracket.As we inch closer towards Selection Sunday, and with the reveal of this year’s committee’s top 16 being released on Saturday, I thought it would be a good time to remind everyone about some of things behind our bracket projections.įirst, remember that these are not my predictions. Teams will battle it out for a chance to play at NRG Stadium in Houston, the site of the 2023 Final Four and national championship game. March Madness bracket live 2023: Updated bracket after Thursday First Round games So what does the 2023 March Madness live bracket look like now? Let’s take a look as we head into Friday’s finisher for the First Round. These college basketball streets are wild right now with only a few hundred perfect brackets remaining. That was just the appetizer, though, as later in the day, we saw a 15-seeded Princeton team come out of nowhere after trailing for most of the game against Arizona and pull off a 15-over-2 upset for the third-straight tournament. 13-seed Furman shocked the world on a wild finish against 4-seeded Virginia to pull off a massive upset in the second game that tipped off in March Madness. The madness truly got started almost right away. While the hope of a perfect bracket is a lofty goal to begin with, but the chaotic scenes from Thursday’s First Round games in the NCAA Tournament made that even more so. Is your 2023 March Madness bracket busted? You aren’t alone. Let’s check in on the live March Madness bracket after Thursday’s First Round games featuring big upsets to bust your NCAA Tournament bracket.
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