Skarmory's Bracketology – 02/13/23

Autobids indicated by Bold text. First four teams are in italics, first four matchups in (parenthesis) if possible. Updated for games on 2/12/23.

1 seeds: Purdue, Alabama, Kansas, Houston

2 seeds: Texas, UCLA, Baylor, Arizona

3 seeds: Virginia, Tennessee, Kansas State, Iowa State

4 seeds: Xavier, UConn, Marquette, Gonzaga

5 seeds: San Diego State, Indiana, Miami (FL), TCU

6 seeds: St. Mary's, Missouri, Illinois, Creighton

7 seeds: Michigan State, Iowa, Rutgers, Maryland

8 seeds: Duke, FAU, Providence, West Virginia

9 seeds: Northwestern, Nevada, Auburn, Oklahoma State

10 seeds: NC State, Arkansas, Boise State, Pittsburgh

11 seeds: Memphis, Wisconsin, New Mexico, North Carolina, Kentucky, Mississippi State

12 seeds: Charleston, Oral Roberts, Southern Miss, Kent State

13 seeds: Liberty, Utah Valley, Drake, VCU

14 seeds: UC Santa Barbara, Iona, Yale, Furman

15 seeds: Eastern Washington, Colgate, Vermont, Youngstown State

16 seeds: Northwestern State, UNC Asheville, (Grambling, Norfolk State), (SIU-Edwardsville, Wagner)

Last four byes: Boise State, Pittsburgh, Memphis, Wisconsin

Last four in: New Mexico, North Carolina, Kentucky, Mississippi State*

First four out: USC, Texas A&M, Oregon, Clemson

Next four out: Michigan, Seton Hall, Arizona State, Penn State 

Also considered: Utah State, Wake Forest

*First four matchups are New Mexico vs. Kentucky and North Carolina vs. Mississippi State.

Check out my bubble watch – it's better than this mess of a bracketology thing I'm trying to put together! None of that is impacted by this, don't worry, this is more of an exercise for where I place teams.

Also, check out bracketmatrix.com, where you will probably find many more accurate brackets/seed lines than this one. I used to be on there, but I won't be this year until the final bracket because they imposed a limit of at least one bracket in the top half over the past 5 years... yeah that's on me for not being good at bracketology. Maybe I can get top half this year? Who knows.

Bids by conference:

Big Ten: 9

Big 12: 8

SEC: 7

ACC: 6

Big East: 5

MWC: 4

AAC: 2

Pac-12: 2

WCC: 2