March 15th 2026 Bracketology **Updated 6:15am ET**

Seed Power Team

1 1 * Duke

1 2 * Michigan

1 3 * Arizona

1 4 * Florida

2 5 Houston

2 6 UConn

2 7 Iowa State

2 8 Michigan St

3 9 Purdue

3 10 Illinois

3 12 Vanderbilt

3 11 * Gonzaga

4 13 Virginia

4 14 Nebraska

4 15 Alabama

4 16 * St. John's

5 17 Kansas

5 18 Arkansas

5 19 Texas Tech

5 20 Wisconsin

6 21 Tennessee

6 22 North Carolina

6 23 Louisville

6 24 BYU

7 25 Kentucky

7 26 UCLA

7 27 Miami

7 28 Clemson

8 29 St. Mary's

8 30 * Utah St

8 31 Ohio State

8 32 Villanova

9 33 Georgia

9 34 TCU

9 35 Iowa

9 36 UCF

10 37 * Saint Louis

10 38 Texas A&M

10 39 NC State

10 40 Santa Clara

11a 41 Missouri

11b 42 Miami-OH

11 43 * VCU

11c 44 SMU

11d 45 Texas

11 46 * South Florida

12 47 * McNeese St

12 48 * Akron

12 49 * Northern Iowa

12 50 * Yale

13 51 * High Point

13 52 * Cal Baptist

13 53 * Hofstra

13 54 * Hawaii

14 55 * North Dakota St

14 56 * Troy

14 57 * Wright St

14 58 * Kennesaw St

15 59 * Idaho

15 60 * Siena

15 61 * Furman

15 62 * Tennessee St

16 63 * UMBC

16 64 * Queens

16a 65 * Howard

16a 66 * Long Island

16a 67 * Lehigh

16a 68 * Prairie View 

Last Four In: Texas, SMU, Miami -OH, Missouri

First Four Out: Oklahoma, San Diego St, Auburn, Va Tech

Next Four Out: New Mexico, Oklahoma St, Indiana, Stanford

I am on the road today, so this is my bracket without taking a deep dive into the new metrics which havent updated yet as of this moment.

This afternoon, I will update one more time with my final bracket after todays games and looking more closely at the metrics.

For the bubble, the key game today is VCU/Dayton. I THINK, I will keep VCU in my field even with a loss. So if Dayton wins, Texas is out.