🏀 2025-2026 Bracketology

Men's Basketball
848

Cal is always $$ in SECT. Ridiculous.

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849

Say what now? The site of your first 2 round games has nothing to do with the regional bracket you’re in. You can have 2 #1 seeds in your opening weekend site.

Also the location of your first weekend site does not have any bearing on the balancing of the regions. The first 16 teams in the S-Curve are assigned first weekend sites in order. There’s no way a team ranked lower on the S-Curve would get a site that would be more favorable to you.

There’s no reason that we wouldn’t get, for example, Greenville if that was available when it was our turn to get assigned just because Duke’s already been assigned there. Duke would be the East-DC #1 seed and we’d be the North/Central-Chicago #3 or South/Houston #4 or whatever and it doesn’t matter.

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850

Exactly. I’ve been to multiple sites where we were assigned with UNC or Duke. It goes straight down the line from 1-4 seeds list (meaning the full order 1-16 overall). Outside of that there are no protections.

Your region location is only determining of the second weekend… it is entirely possible we are in Arizonas west region yet play the first 2 rounds in Greenville before heading to San Jose.

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851

Outside shot of a UVa-VCU 2nd round game

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852

Does south Florida have an at large case? Or is this make or break?

853

Would you take right now?

  • An 0-1 record in April
  • The unknown as of now
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854

Unknown every time

855

I hope we’re a 3 obviously but there’s just no way you can leave Arkansas on the 5 line. They should be a 4

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856

Proud to say I’ve paid zero attention to NCAA seeding talk until today…and that’s how it should be.

My take is UVA will get a 3 seed, probably a higher one if that’s a thing. Why? In part because the committee is kinda lazy about it and most of it is done before last night’s game started, 3 is defendable win or lose, 4 not so much if they had won.

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857

https://x.com/nickbateman33/status/2033232942323888343

858

Lunardi, CBS, and now Katz for NCAA’s official site all have us as a 3 seed. Is that their prediction or inside info leaking

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859

Matrix still has us as the top 4 seed

860

Bet the top 16 was leaked to Lunardi.

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861

They’re sending them to Dayton which is totally fair imo. That market is Ro64, so it’s pricing a 50/50 shot at winning the play-in. Maybe a little aggressive to be honest..

Make them prove they can beat a decent team and send them on their way if not. I think they stand a decent shot to win one there to be honest.

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862

I get all the analytics arguments for Miami (OH) not getting in, but they should get in. Even if last 4 in.

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863

Plus it’ll be a virtual home game for them

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864

Very interesting. Kalshi is an insider trading venue that professes to be a predictions commodities exchange. It’s essentially the same as the old saying about a poker table: if you look around and don’t know who’s the sucker, it’s you.

I still think Miami of Ohio will get an at-large bid, but someone on the inside must have leaked some info. Could be a trick. Who knows?

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865

Matrix is just Joe bracketologist though.

866

If they got info they wouldn’t be rated terribly on bracket matrix. Also CBS’ is a computer not a person.

867

Unless the info they get is specific to a few top of the bracket teams, they get those with that info, and that just shows how poor the rest of their predictions are.

But I’m not sure how else to explain Joe suddenly - before last night’s game and with none of these teams playing - suddenly jumping UVA over Gonzaga, Nebraska and Alabama.

Unless it’s because I started tweeting at him that no p4 conference team with 29 wins had ever been a 4. I’ll happily take the W if that’s the case. :slight_smile:

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