NCAA Division 1 College Hoops (And Olympics) Talk and Tourney Projections
2026 Patriot League Men’s Basketball Tournament Basics Format Traditional bracket Site All games take place in the home arena of the higher seed. Schedule Downloadable PDF Bracket First Round (Tues. 3/3) Gm. 1: (9) Army West Point (11-21, 5-13) 55, (8) Bucknell 65Gm. 2: (10) Holy Cross 82, (7) Lafayette (11-21, 8-10) 77 Quarterfinals (Thurs. […]
2026 Southland Conference Men’s Basketball Tournament Basics Format Stepladder bracket Site This will be the fourth consecutive time the Legacy Center on McNeese’s campus in Lake Charles, Louisiana will host—an arrangement scheduled to continue through the 2029 Southland tournament. Participants Lamar (12-19, 7-15, t-9th), Incarnate Word (12-19, 7-15, t-9th), Southeastern Louisiana (9-22, 6-16, t-11th), and […]
There are still not too many changes from Tuesday’s bracket, as the most interesting games yesterday either saw auto bids awarded or featured teams on the wrong side of the bubble—most of whom were not successful. That is likely to change today. This year, I’m going to be using the Blogging the Bracket feed to […]
2026 West Coast Conference Men’s Basketball Tournament Basics Format Stepladder bracket, with bottom four teams starting in Thursday’s first round. Site The Orleans Arena in Las Vegas hosts, as it has since the 2009 event. Participants This is likely to be the final 12-team WCC Tournament for now. Seattle U joined for this season, but […]
2026 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Men’s Basketball Tournament Basics Format The MAAC Tournament returns to its historic early-Championship-Fortnight schedule for 2026 after five seasons of concluding on Selection Eve. It’s still a traditional bracket with split quarterfinal doubleheaders. Thursday’s winners will play the top two seeds in Friday’s set, with seeds 3 through 6 taking […]
2026 Coastal Athletic Association Men’s Basketball Tournament Basics Format Traditional bracket Site For the fifth consecutive season and sixth since 2020, the CAA Tournament will take place at the Entertainment and Sports Arena in Southeast Washington, D.C. Participants With Campbell’s arrival in 2024, the CAA’s membership jumped to 14, but that number dropped to 13 […]
2026 Horizon League Men’s Basketball Tournament Basics Format One day before the Sun Belt Conference’s “flock of Canada geese” bracket takes flight, the Horizon offers up a completely new format, at least for basketball. It’s reminiscent of the old WCHA Final Five format from hockey. This format guarantees the 1 seed in each stage meets […]
2026 NEC Men’s Basketball Tournament Basics Format Traditional bracket with reseeding. Note that the conference is solely going by the “NEC” initialism now. Site Higher seeds host on campus Participants New Haven (14-17, 9-9, 5th) is not participating as the Chargers are in their first reclassification year, so only one team missed the field of […]
The bracket is mostly unchanged since Monday’s. I have not had the time to do a full scrub since Friday, so there may be changes in tomorrow’s field—particularly with there being some games of interest tonight. More on those after the full bracket and rundown. NOTES: (1) East (Washington, D.C., Fri./Sun.) Greenville (Thurs./Sat.) (1) Duke […]
2026 Southern Conference Men’s Basketball Tournament Basics Format Traditional bracket with the top two seeds playing in the first quarterfinal doubleheader against the two winners of the first-round doubleheader. Site The SoCon’s teams will again gather in Asheville, N.C., at Harrah’s Cherokee Center, which seats a little more than 7,600. The arena, which hosted the […]
2026 Sun Belt Conference Men’s Basketball Tournament Basics Format For the second season in a row, the Sun Belt is going with a diabolical seven-round ladder bracket that allows all 14 teams to participate and for both the women’s (day sessions) and men’s (night sessions) tournament, while keeping both events in the same venue over […]
Daily updates begin today, even though this is going to be a quick one (for migraine-related reasons). The biggest changes since Friday … NOTES: (1) East (Washington, D.C., Fri./Sun.) Greenville (Thurs./Sat.) (1) Duke (ACC)(16) UMBC (AE) (8) Kentucky▲(9) TCU San Diego (Fri./Sun.) ▼(5) Texas Tech★(12) NORTHERN IOWA (MVC) ▲(4) Vanderbilt★(13) Hofstra (CAA) St. Louis (Fri./Sun.) […]
2026 Summit League Men’s Basketball Tournament Basics Format Bracket with split quarterfinal doubleheaders, giving the top two seeds a day off before the semifinals (should they win). Site The Summit League Tournament has been a Sioux Falls, South Dakota fixture since 2009, with Sioux Falls Arena hosting up until 2015, when the event moved to […]
2026 Atlantic Sun Conference Men’s Basketball Tournament Basics Format Traditional bracket Site Jacksonville will host the entirety of the ASUN tournament at three different venues. Three first-round games are set for UNF Arena, including JU’s contest against Bellarmine. UNF’s first-round game against West Georgia is the only one scheduled for JU’s Swisher Gym. From the […]
2026 Big South Conference Men’s Basketball Tournament Basics Format Traditional bracket Site After spending March 2024 in High Point’s sparkling new Qubein Center, the Big South Tournament is set for a second consecutive trip to Freedom Hall Civic Center in Johnson City, Tennessee, home of the Southern Conference’s ETSU Buccaneers. Note that despite being in […]
2026 Missouri Valley Conference Men’s Basketball Tournament Basics Format Traditional bracket Site As is traditional, Arch Madness is set for the Enterprise Center in St. Louis, Mo., its home since 1995, though the tournament has been held in St. Louis since 1991. Participants All 11 teams will play in this season’s event. There will be […]
2026 Ohio Valley Conference Men’s Basketball Tournament Basics Format Stepladder bracket—the top two seeds each only need to win a semifinal and final to qualify for the NCAAs. Site For the ninth consecutive year, the Ford Center in Evansville, Ind., home of the Missouri Valley’s Evansville Purple Aces, will host the Ohio Valley’s postseason event. […]
The most significant change at the top of the final bracket projection of the regular season was a swap on the 3 and 4 lines, with idle Gonzaga, who next plays in the WCC semifinals on Monday night, swapping places with Texas Tech, who lost at home to TCU on Tuesday and next visits a […]
It’s a double dose of bracket talk on the Friday edition of College Basketball Coast to Coast, as T.J. Rives was not only joined by yours truly, but also by the legendary Mike DeCourcy of The Sporting News/Big Ten Network/Fox Sports. We’ll get you ready for the final weekend of the regular season and first […]
The best month of the year has arrived, and College Basketball Coast to Coast has you covered as you get prepared for the madness to come. On this edition, host T.J. Rives is joined by handicapper and SEC analyst Brian Edwards of MajorWager.com and Vegas Insider. Then, I joined the show to provide some bracket […]
Duke (East), Michigan (Midwest), Arizona (West), and UConn (South) remain the four No. 1 seeds in the first bracket of the Month of Madness, but that seed line is just about the only stable one at the moment. And even it may not remain so, given how Florida (in particular), Michigan State, and Houston are […]
While the membership of the top 16 in today’s NCAA Men’s Tournament bracket remains the same as what the Selection Committee revealed last Saturday, there has been some shuffling outside of a top line that remains stable—with Duke, Michigan, Arizona, and UConn your four No. 1 seeds in that order. This week’s results have led […]
The results of Saturday’s bracket preview show had barely cooled off before they were made nearly irrelevant by actual games. Sure, you knew that two of the top teams were guaranteed to take losses, with Arizona traveling to Houston and Michigan meeting Duke in Washington, D.C. And indeed, the Blue Devils’ win over the Wolverines […]
The midweek edition of College Basketball Coast to Coast is up as the Month of Madness moves ever closer. T.J. Rives was first joined by Brian Dancel, who shared his experience watching UCLA’s epic comeback win over Illinois at Pauley Pavilion on Saturday, a game that reminded me of my lone visit there, a Lonzo […]
The top 16 teams in my projected bracket from Friday were all included in CBS’s Bracket Preview show—the best of the 10 editions of this production in my opinion, thanks in no small part to the candor and transparency provided by this year’s Committee chair, Sun Belt Commissioner Keith Gill. At this point, the top […]