February 19th 2026 Bracketology **Updated 1:30pm ET**

 Seed Power Team

1 1 * Michigan

1 2 * Duke

1 3 * Arizona

1 4 Iowa State

2 5 Houston

2 6 UConn

2 7 Illinois

2 8 Purdue

3 9 Kansas

3 10 * Florida

3 11 Nebraska

3 12 * Gonzaga

4 13 Michigan St

4 14 Vanderbilt

4 15 Alabama

4 16 Virginia

5 17 Texas Tech

5 18 Arkansas

5 19 Louisville

5 20 * St. John's

6 21 Tennessee

6 22 BYU

6 23 North Carolina

6 24 Villanova

7 25 * Utah St

7 26 NC State

7 27 Clemson

7 28 Kentucky

8 29 Iowa

8 30 Wisconsin

8 31 * Saint Louis

8 32 Miami

9 33 SMU

9 34 UCF

9 35 Indiana

9 36 St. Mary's

10 37 Georgia

10 38 Texas A&M

10 39 Texas

10 40 USC

11 41 * Miami-OH

11 42 Missouri

11a 43 Auburn

11b 44 Santa Clara

11c 45 UCLA

11d 46 Ohio State

12 47 * South Florida

12 48 * Belmont

12 49 * Liberty

12 50 * Stephen F. Austin

13 51 * Yale

13 52 * High Point

13 53 * Hawai'i

13 54 * UNCW

14 55 * Cal Baptist

14 56 * North Dakota St

14 57 * Austin Peay

14 58 * Navy

15 59 * Portland St

15 60 * East Tenn St

15 61 * Wright St

15 62 * Troy

16 63 * Merrimack

16 64 * UT Martin

16a 65 * Long Island

16a 66 * Howard

16a 67 * Bethune Cookman

16a 68 *NJIT

Last Four In: Ohio St., UCLA, Santa Clara, Auburn

First Four Out: TCU, New Mexico, San Diego St., Virginia Tech

Next Four Out: VCU, California, WVU, Arizona St.

Notes:

I struggled to find an 8th team out today. I put Arizona State there, but realistically the probably have to be about perfect to be in the field heading into the conference tournament. There are similar teams that if they win there last 4/5/6 games, it could be enough to push them from not even in the first 8 out, to in the field. Teams like Arizona State, Cincinatti, Wake Forest, Baylor, Seton Hall, Oklahoma, Stanford, Oklahoma State.