Welcome to conference championship week! It is the final week for teams to improve their NQS going into postseason, so there are many storylines to follow. Let’s get right into it with a bracket projection!
Regionals Projection: Teams
| Pennsylvania | Washington | Alabama | Utah |
| 1. Oklahoma | 2. LSU | 3. Florida | 4. Utah |
| 8. Kentucky | 7. Missouri | 6. California | 5. UCLA |
| 9. Michigan State | 10. Georgia | 11. Oregon State | 12. Auburn |
| 16. Arkansas | 15. Minnesota | 13. Alabama | 14. Stanford |
| 17. Michigan | 20. Nebraska | 19. N.C. State | 18. Denver |
| 22. Ohio State | 21. Arizona | 25. North Carolina | 23. Southern Utah |
| 27. Penn State | 24. Arizona State | 26. Clemson | 29. Boise State |
| 34. West Virginia | 28. Iowa | 30. Maryland | 32. Utah State |
| 35. Towson | 36. Central Michigan | 31. Illinois | 33. BYU |
No. 13 Alabama is grouped with No. 4 Utah in the standard bracket arrangement of the top 16 teams, but since both are hosts that creates a conflict, so we switched Alabama with Stanford. As always, teams in bold are assigned to the region in question due to being located within 400 miles of the host; there are six such teams for only five spots at the Pennsylvania regional, so we elected to move Maryland elsewhere since it was the furthest distance out of the three in line for play-in spots. However, there are still three teams within 400 of miles of Salt Lake…
