***Bracketology February 29th 2024***

 ***Bracketology February 29th 2024 1pm ET***

Seed Power Team

1 1 Purdue*

1 2 Houston*

1 3 UConn*

1 4 Arizona*

2 5 North Carolina*

2 6 Tennessee*

2 7 Marquette

2 8 Kansas

3 9 Baylor

3 10 Iowa St.

3 11 Duke

3 12 Alabama

4 13 Creighton

4 14 Illinois

4 15 Auburn

4 16 San Diego St.

5 17 Kentucky

5 18 Clemson

5 19 Dayton

5 20 BYU

6 21 Wisconsin

6 22 Utah St.

6 23 Washington St.

6 24 South Carolina

7 25 Saint Mary's (CA)*

7 26 Florida

7 27 Texas Tech

7 28 Oklahoma

8 29 Colorado St.

8 30 Northwestern

8 31 TCU

8 32 Nebraska

9 33 Boise St.*

9 34 Michigan St.

9 35 Nevada

9 36 Mississippi St.

10 37 Texas

10 38 Fla. Atlantic

10 39 Virginia

10 40 New Mexico

11a 41 Seton Hall

11b 42 Providence

11c 43 Utah

11d 44 Gonzaga

11 45 Indiana St.*

11 46 Princeton*

12 47 Grand Canyon*

12 48 Richmond*

12 49 South Fla.*

12 50 McNeese*

13 51 App State*

13 52 Samford*

13 53 Louisiana Tech*

13 54 UC Irvine*

14 55 Vermont*

14 56 Akron*

14 57 Col. of Charleston*

14 58 High Point*

15 59 Oakland*

15 60 Eastern Washington*

15 61 Morehead St.*

15 62 Colgate*

16 63 Fairfield*

16 64 South Dakota St.*

16a 65 Norfolk St.*

16a 66 Eastern Kentucky*

16b 67 Merrimack*

16b 68 Grambling St.*

Last Four In: Gonzaga, Utah, Providence, Seton Hall

First Four Out: Wake Forest, Colorado, St. Johns, Kansas St.

Next Four Out: Villanova, Oregon, Ole Miss, Iowa

Notes:

- I moved Wake Forest out and Gonzaga in today. It is real close between Utah, Gonzaga, Wake Forest, Colorado, and St. Johns. That is kind of the super bubble right now. Of course if FAU and Dayton were to win their tournaments then 4 of those 5 would be in my bracket. Wake Forest lost a Q1 win as Florida slid down to a NET of 33. Little things like that are important.

- Last night was a night of missed opportunities for many bubble teams. Providence was blown out at Marquette, Seton Hall blown out at Creighton. Ole Miss lost at home to Alabama, Texas A&M to South Carolina. Virginia helped themselves with a road win at BC and St. Johns with a road win at Butler.

Tonights Bubble Games:

Stanford @ Utah. Utah is hanging by a thread and the problem for them is that their next 3 games are quad 3 games. They end the season at Oregon which is quad 1. Utah cant afford a bad loss as that would knock them out of the bracket. And to keep their spots they may need to win convincingly in some of these next 3 and then knock off Oregon on the road to end the season. So a must win tonight.

Gonzaga @ San Francisco. A huge bubble game here. I slid Gonzaga in as my last team in today. This is a Q1 opportunity and they have another one Saturday at St. Marys. A split will likely head them barely in heading into the conference tournament. From there they have to avoid a bad loss and it would help to pick up one more quality win. Losing this one and then St. Marys would likely have Gonzaga on the outside looking in and needing to win the WCC tournament.