March 2nd 2026 Bracketology **Updated 1pm ET**

 Seed Power Team

1 1 * Duke

1 2 * Michigan

1 3 * Arizona

1 4 * UConn

2 5 * Florida

2 6 Houston

2 7 Michigan St

2 8 Nebraska

3 9 Illinois

3 10 Texas Tech

3 11 Purdue

3 12 Iowa State

4 13 * Gonzaga

4 14 Kansas

4 15 Alabama

4 16 Virginia

5 17 North Carolina

5 18 Vanderbilt

5 19 Arkansas

5 20 Tennessee

6 21 St. John's

6 22 Louisville

6 23 Wisconsin

6 24 * Utah St

7 25 Kentucky

7 26 BYU

7 27 Villanova

7 28 Clemson

8 29 St. Mary's

8 30 UCF

8 31 * Saint Louis

8 32 Miami

9 33 Iowa

9 34 NC State

9 35 Georgia

9 36 Missouri

10 37 Texas

10 38 Ohio State

10 39 UCLA

10 40 SMU

11 41 * Miami-OH

11 42 Texas A&M

11a 43 Santa Clara

11b 44 TCU

11c 45 New Mexico

11d 46 VCU

12 47 * South Florida

12 48 * Belmont

12 49 * Stephen F. Austin

12 50 * High Point

13 51 * Yale

13 52 * Liberty

13 53 * UNCW

13 54 * Cal Baptist

14 55 * Hawai'i

14 56 * North Dakota St

14 57 * Navy

14 58 * Troy

15 59 *Austin Peay

15 60 * East Tenn St

15 61 * Wright St

15 62 * Portland St

16 63 * Merrimack

16 64 * Tennessee St

16a 65 * Howard

16a 66 * Long Island

16a 67 * UMBC

16a 68 * Bethune Cookman

Last Four In: VCU, New Mexico, TCU, Santa Clara

First Four Out: Indiana, San Diego St., Va Tech, USC

Next Four Out:California, Auburn, WVU, Seton Hall

Notes:

- Bubble teams had a bad weekend. With Auburn and California picking up very damaging losses and falling out of my field, while Indiana, SDSU, Va Tech, USC, Seton Hall all missed chances to pick up big wins and move into my field. New Mexico and VCU were the beneficiaries winning this weekend and moving into the field.

- Now we begin my favorites 2 weeks of the sports year with conference tournaments. I will endeavor to update this every day going forward. 

-No bubble games tonight. NC State is likely safely in my field but they have lost 4 of 5 and have #1 Duke in Raleigh tonight. A win would obviously be huge, a loss would put the Pack in a position where a win at home against Stanford to close the season would be recommended just to have a stress free ACC tournament, although they would still likely be ok.