February 12th 2026 Bracketology **Updated 12pm ET**

 Seed Power Team

1 1 * Arizona

1 2 * Michigan

1 3 * Duke

1 4 * UConn

2 5 Houston

2 6 Purdue

2 7 Illinois

2 8 Iowa State

3 9 Kansas

3 10 Nebraska

3 11 Michigan St

3 12 * Florida

4 13 Gonzaga

4 14 Vanderbilt

4 15 Virginia

4 16 Texas Tech

5 17 Alabama

5 18 Arkansas

5 19 North Carolina

5 20 St. John's

6 21 Louisville

6 22 BYU

6 23 Tennessee

6 24 Kentucky

7 25 * Saint Louis

7 26 Clemson

7 27 NC State

7 28 Villanova

8 29 * Utah St

8 30 Wisconsin

8 31 UCF

8 32 Iowa

9 33 SMU

9 34 Auburn

9 35 Indiana

9 36 Texas A&M

10 37 St. Mary's

10 38 Miami

10 39 Georgia

10 40 UCLA

11a 41 USC

11 42 *Santa Clara

11 43 * Miami-OH

11b 44 Missouri

11c 45 Texas

11d 46 Virginia Tech

12 47 * South Florida

12 48 * Belmont

12 49 * Liberty

12 50 * Stephen F. Austin

13 51 * Yale

13 52 * High Point

13 53 *Utah Valley

13 54 * Hawai'i

14 55 * UNCW

14 56 * North Dakota St

14 57 * Austin Peay

14 58 * Portland St

15 59 * East Tenn St

15 60 * Wright St

15 61 * Navy

15 62 *Appalachian St

16 63 * Merrimack

16 64 * UT Martin

16a 65 * Long Island

16a 66 * Bethune Cookman

16a 67 *NJIT

16a 68 *Morgan St

Last Four In (First Team Listed is Last Team IN): Virginia Tech, Texas, Missouri, USC

First Four Out: Ohio St., TCU, SDSU, New Mexico

Next Four Out: Seton Hall, California, Oklahoma St., VCU

Comments:

I moved TCU back out of the bracket today, as I thought Virginia Tech's resume now is overall better with the win at Clemson right now. TCU just has one of those odd resumes with some huge wins but also 2 bad losses and sketch efficiency metrics. They just need to keep wining.

Ohio State has a chance for a huge statement win this weekend vs Virginia on a neutral floor. Ohio States resume is a classic power league bubble resume. A little good, not much bad, but nothing really good. They need to spice it up with a win here, similar to how Miami did earlier this week by beating UNC.

California could have picked up a Q1 win last night vs Syracuse on the road but lost in 2OT. It was costly and knocked them down to the Next Four Out. The problem for Cal is that of their 6 games left, only 3 are Q1/Q2 (Stanford, SMU, @ WF) and none of those really move the needle except maybe the home game vs SMU. They have to win the 3 Q3 games left and probably 2 of those 3 to be in at large contention heading into the ACC tournament.

I am traveling through the weekend, so my next update may not be until Wednesday unless I get a little time Monday.