(Editor’s note: This article is part of the Bracket Central series, an inside look at the run-up to the men’s & women’s NCAA Tournaments, along with analysis and picks during the tournaments.)
Don’t look now, but we’re officially 30 days from Selection Sunday. How did it get here so fast, yet simultaneously how are we supposed to fit everything left in conference play? My brain is rattled.
Every day I look at my spreadsheets and my four-by-three whiteboard bracket and feel a little more akin to Charlie during the newsroom episode of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, except Pepe Silvia is actually a real person in this scenario, and that person is actually the Utah Utes who I realized I forgot to put in my seed list at 1:13 a.m. … and it all comes back to that Mac.
To semi-quote “Always Sunny,” I’ve been dying to talk about it, let’s talk about the bracket, I wanna show you the bracket.
| Last four in | First four out | Next four out | Last four byes |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Nebraska |
Princeton |
George Mason |
Minnesota |
|
Virginia Tech |
Arizona |
South Florida |
Harvard |
|
Iowa State |
Washington |
Seton Hall |
Indiana |
|
Colorado |
St. Joseph’s |
Auburn |
South Dakota State |
Bids by conference
| Conference | Bids |
|---|---|
|
Big Ten |
12 |
|
SEC |
10 |
|
ACC |
9 |
|
Big 12 |
8 |
|
Big East |
2 |
|
Ivy |
2 |
UCLA fallout
Thanks to an all-time…
