Skarmory's Bracketology – 03/05/23

Autobids indicated by Bold text. First four teams are in italics, first four matchups in (parenthesis) if possible. Posted at 10:30 PM on 03/05/23 – any games ending before that time are included, any games after are not.

1 seeds: Kansas, Alabama, Houston, UCLA

2 seeds: Purdue, Texas, Baylor, Arizona

3 seeds: Kansas State, Tennessee, Marquette, Gonzaga

4 seeds: UConn, Xavier, Indiana, St. Mary's

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

6 seeds: Iowa State, Creighton, Michigan State, Duke

7 seeds: Kentucky, Texas A&M, Missouri, Northwestern

8 seeds: Maryland, Illinois, Arkansas, FAU

9 seeds: West Virginia, Auburn, Iowa, Boise State

10 seeds: USC, Providence, NC State, Memphis

11 seeds: Mississippi State, Nevada, (Penn State, Utah State), (Rutgers, Pittsburgh)

12 seeds: Oral Roberts, Charleston, Drake, Utah Valley

13 seeds: VCU, Toledo, Yale, Iona

14 seeds: Kennesaw State, UC Santa Barbara, Furman, Montana State

15 seeds: Vermont, Colgate, South Alabama, UNC Asheville

16 seeds: Youngstown State, Grambling, (Northwestern State, NC Central), (SE Missouri State, Fairleigh Dickinson)

Last four byes: NC State, Memphis, Mississippi State, Nevada

Last four in: (Penn State, Utah State), (Rutgers, Pittsburgh)

First four out: Oklahoma State, Wisconsin, Arizona State, Oregon

Next four out: North Carolina, Michigan, Vanderbilt, Clemson

Check out my bubble watch – it's better than this mess of a bracketology thing I'm trying to put together! This bracketology has barely any affect on where I place teams in the bubble watch – I prefer to look at the general consensus for the watch and build out off that, while going off the consensus for bracketology would basically involve copying brackets from elsewhere, which... no, I'm not doing that.

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

SEC: 8

Big 12: 7

ACC: 5

Big East: 5

MWC: 4

Pac-12: 3

AAC: 2

WCC: 2