March Insanity brackets have been revealed.
The boys’s No. 1 seeds are Auburn, Houston, Duke and Florida. The ladies’s are UCLA, South Carolina, Southern California and Texas.
The boys’s First 4 might be performed in Dayton, Ohio, starting on Tuesday. The ladies’s First 4 will start Wednesday.
This is the most recent on this Choice Sunday:
Betting favorites for males’s, ladies’s NCAA titles
Florida (+350) is the favourite to win the lads’s title at BetMGM Sportsbook, however solely barely over Duke (+360), Auburn (4-1) and Houston (6-1). Alabama is 15-1.
Within the ladies’s event, South Carolina (+270) is a slim favourite over UConn (+275), with UCLA (5-1), USC (+550), Texas (6-1) and Notre Dame (6-1) within the combine. Then it’s an enormous hole earlier than N.C. State and LSU at 40-1.
Large Ten will get document entries
The Large Ten put a document 12 groups into the ladies’s area, together with prime seeds UCLA and Southern California.
The SEC has 10 groups and the ACC eight. The Large 12 has seven. The Ivy League (three) acquired extra bids than the Large East (two).
Monumental matchups might await in Elite 8
No. 1 seed Texas might face No. 2 seed TCU in an Elite Eight conflict of in-state rivals in Regional 3.
In Regional 4, the highest two seeds are Southern California and UConn, who met in December in one of many season’s greatest video games.
JuJu Watkins and USC beat Paige Bueckers and the Huskies 72-70.
Notre Dame ladies get a shocking seed
Notre Dame misplaced three of its final 5 video games, dropping from a possible prime seed to a 3rd seed.
The Combating Irish will play 14th-seeded Stephen F. Austin within the opening spherical.
They’ll host the primary and second rounds earlier than doubtlessly touring to Birmingham, Alabama, for Candy 16 and Elite Eight video games.
The Irish are 26-5 this season and earned a share of the Atlantic Coast Convention regular-season title.
Kentucky, Ohio State, Maryland and Baylor safe internet hosting seeds
The highest-four seeds in every area get to host the primary two rounds within the ladies’s event.
Meaning No. 4 seeds Kentucky, Ohio State, Maryland and Baylor had been the previous couple of groups to obtain house courtroom. They did it on the expense of the No. 5 seeds: Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee and Kansas State.
Ladies’s Regional 4 bracket
1. No. 1 USC vs. No. 16 UNC Greensboro
2. No. 8 California vs. No. 9 Mississippi State
3. No. 5 Kansas State vs. No. 12 Fairfield
4. No. 4 Kentucky vs. No. 13 Liberty
5. No. 6 Iowa vs. No. 11 Murray State
6. No. 3 Oklahoma vs. No. 14 Florida Gulf Coast
7. No. 7 Oklahoma State vs. No. 10 South Dakota State
8. No. 2 UConn vs. No. 15 Arkansas State
Ladies’s Regional 3 bracket
9. No. 1 Texas vs. No. 16 Excessive Level/William & Mary
10. No. 8 Illinois vs. No. 9 Creighton
11. No. 5 Tennessee vs. No. 12 South Florida
12. No. 4 Ohio State vs. No. 13 Montana State
13. No. 6 Michigan vs. No. 11 Iowa State/Princeton
14. No. 3 Notre Dame vs. No. 14 Stephen F. Austin
15. No. 7 Louisville vs. No. 10 Nebraska
16. No. 2 TCU vs. No. 15 Fairleigh Dickinson
Ladies’s Regional 2 bracket
17. No. 1 South Carolina vs. No. 16 Tennessee Tech
18. No. 8 Utah vs. No. 9 Indiana
19. No. 5 Alabama vs. No. 12 Inexperienced Bay
20. No. 4 Maryland vs. No. 13 Norfolk State
21. No. 6 West Virginia vs. No. 11 Columbia/Washington
22. No. 3 North Carolina vs. No. 14 Oregon State
23. No. 7 Vanderbilt vs. No. 10 Oregon
24. No. 2 Duke vs. No. 15 Lehigh
Ladies’s Regional 1 bracket
25. No. 1 UCLA vs. No. 16 UC San Diego/Southern
26. No. 8 Richmond vs. No. 9 Georgia Tech
27. No. 5 Mississippi vs. No. 12 Ball State
28. No. 4 Baylor vs. No. 13 Grand Canyon
29. No. 6 Florida State vs. No. 11 George Mason
30. No. 3 LSU vs. No. 14 San Diego State
31. No. 7 Michigan State vs. No. 10 Harvard
32. No. 2 N.C. State vs. No. 15 Vermont
Ladies’s event bracket to be revealed quickly
The ladies’s event bracket might be unveiled on the prime of the hour on ESPN.
Who’s on the bubble for the ladies’s event?
One of many large questions heading into the ladies’s bracket reveal is whether or not the Ivy League will put three groups in.
Harvard received the automated bid, leaving Columbia and Princeton on the bubble. Along with these two groups, the remainder of the bubble consists of groups like Iowa State, Washington, Virginia Tech, Colorado, James Madison, Saint Joseph’s and Minnesota.
West Virginia, Boise State, Indiana neglected of males’s tourney
Boise State and Indiana are on the surface wanting in after Texas and North Carolina squeaked into the lads’s NCAA Match.
And West Virginia could also be an much more shocking omission. The Mountaineers weren’t even one of many final 4 in when ESPN, Sports activities Illustrated and the Washington Submit made their projections. They had been anticipated to make it extra comfortably than that.
SEC shatters document
The Southeastern Convention shattered the earlier document for getting probably the most groups into the NCAA Match. The earlier mark was 11 set by the Large East in 2011.
The SEC topped it by three, with Auburn, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Texas A&M, Kentucky, Ole Miss, Missouri, Mississippi State, Georgia, Vanderbilt, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas all getting in. Solely LSU and South Carolina had been neglected from the league greatest referred to as a soccer powerhouse.
Males’s West Area
33. No. 1 Florida vs. No. 16 Norfolk State
34. No. 8 UConn vs. No. 9 Oklahoma
35. No. 5 Memphis vs. No. 12 Colorado State
36. No. 4 Maryland vs. No. 13 Grand Canyon
37. No. 6 Missouri vs. No. 11 Drake
38. No. 3 Texas Tech vs. No. 14 UNC-Wilmington
39. No. 7 Kansas vs. No. 10 Arkansas
40. No. 2 St. John’s vs. No. 15 Omaha
Males’s Midwest Area
41. No. 1 Houston vs. No. 16 SIU Edwardsville
42. No. 8 Gonzaga vs. No. 9 Georgia
43. No. 5 Clemson vs. No. 12 McNeese State
44. No. 4 Purdue vs. No. 13 Excessive Level
45. No. 6 Illinois vs. No. 11 Texas/ Xavier
46. No. 3 Kentucky vs. No. 14 Troy
47. No. 7 UCLA vs. No. 10 Utah State
48. No. 2 Tennessee vs. No. 15 Wofford
Males’s East Area
49. No. 1 Duke vs. No. 16 American/Mount St. Mary’s
50. No. 8 Mississippi State vs. No. 9 Baylor
51. No. 5 Oregon vs. No. 12 Liberty
52. No. 4 Arizona vs. No. 13 Akron
53. No. 6 BYU vs. No. 11 Virginia Commonwealth
54. No. 3 Wisconsin vs. No. 14 Montana
55. No. 7 Saint Mary’s vs. No. 10 Vanderbilt
56. No. 2 Alabama vs. No. 15 Robert Morris
Males’s South Area
57. No. 1 Auburn vs. No. 16 Alabama State/Saint Francis
58. No. 8 Louisville vs. No. 9 Crieghton
59. No. 5 Michigan vs. No. 12 UC San Diego
60. No. 4 Texas A&M vs. No. 13 Yale
61. No. 6 Ole Miss vs. No. 11 San Diego St/North Carolina
62. No. 3 Iowa State vs. No. 14 Lipscomb
63. No. 7 Marquette vs. No. 10 New Mexico
64. No. 2 Michigan State vs. No. 15 Bryant
Convention realignment barely alters bids
Every convention receives an computerized bid to each the lads’s and ladies’s tournaments, after which the remainder of these fields are crammed by the committee’s at-large alternatives.
The current demise of the Pac-12 lowered the variety of computerized qualifiers to 31, leaving room for 37 at-large groups.
Hey soccer followers, the SEC is a basketball energy, too
The Southeastern Convention, usually a soccer energy, has been unusually robust this season in basketball.
Its two latest members — Oklahoma and Texas — are each on the bubble, but when they get in, the SEC might have as many as 14 of its 16 groups within the males’s event.
March Insanity is prepared for its ‘Cinderella
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A excessive seed that makes a run to the Candy 16 or past is affectionately known as “Cinderella.”
5 No. 11 seeds have superior to the lads’s Last 4: LSU (1986), George Mason (2006), VCU (2011), Loyola Chicago (2018) and N.C. State (2024).
Villanova is taken into account the last word Cinderella — the Wildcats received the 1985 NCAA Match by upsetting top-seeded Georgetown as a No. 8 seed, the bottom to ever win the title.
Discovering a Cinderella is more durable on the ladies’s facet. No groups decrease than a No. 3 seed have received the ladies’s occasion. It occurred thrice: 1994 North Carolina, 1997 Tennessee and 2023 LSU.
Males’s NCAA Match schedule
65. First 4: March 18-19
66. First spherical: March 20-21
67. Second spherical: March 22-23
68. Candy 16: March 27-28
69. Elite Eight: March 29-30
70. Last 4: April 5
71. Championship recreation: April 7
Ladies’s NCAA Match schedule
72. First 4: March 19-20
73. First spherical: March 21-22
74. Second spherical: March 23-24
75. Candy 16: March 28-29
76. Elite Eight: March 30-31
77. Last 4: April 4
78. Championship recreation: April 6
Males’s event areas
The First 4 might be performed in Dayton, Ohio. The primary and second rounds are in Cleveland; Denver; Lexington, Kentucky; Milwaukee; Windfall, Rhode Island; Raleigh, North Carolina; Seattle; and Wichita, Kansas.
The regional semifinals (Candy 16) and finals (Elite Eight) will happen in Newark, New Jersey (East Area); Atlanta (South); Indianapolis (Midwest); and San Francisco (West). The event ends with the Last 4 and championship recreation on the Alamodome in San Antonio.
Ladies’s event areas
The ladies’s First 4 is performed at campus websites, which additionally will host first- and second-round video games.
The Candy 16 and Elite Eight video games might be held at two venues — one in Birmingham, Alabama, and the opposite in Spokane, Washington.
The Last 4 and championship recreation might be at Amalie Enviornment in Tampa, Florida.
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