[2023] Postseason Brackets Revealed

[Wahoo]

The moment you've all been waiting for....Selection Saturday is here!

Link: Postseason Brackets

NCAA Tournament

A 9-member selection committee submitted ballots to seed the main tournament. The selection committee was made up of regular pollsters and commenters:

• Bellwood
• Ezaco
• Jieret
• Rocketcan
• SageBow
• SandyToez
• subsequent
• TuscanSota
• Wahoo

Overall #1 Seed: Purdue (31-2). Purdue was selected as the top seed by 7/9 ballots. Temple was the only other team to get votes for overall #1 seed.

#1 Seeds: Purdue, Temple, St. John's, Central Michigan

Last 4 In: Florida Gulf Coast, South Carolina, Nevada, Western Michigan

First 4 Out: Pittsburgh, Fresno State, Ole Miss, Florida State

NIT

Any team that won its conference in the regular season (conference tournament 1 seeds) but did not make the NCAA Tournament was invited to the NIT. The highest rated teams in the Advanced Rankings (AR) that missed the NCAA tournament were invited as at-large bids. 22 teams were given at-large bids.

CBI

The 16 highest rated AR teams not in the NCAA Tournament or NIT were invited to the CBI. 

 

Let the madness begin!

Edited February 3 by Wahoo

[Wahoo]

Conference Call

Big 10: 5

• #1 Purdue
• #4 Michigan
• #5 Indiana
• #6 Nebraska
• #7 Wisconsin

Big 12: 5

• #2 West Virginia
• #2 Baylor
• #6 BYU
• #9 Iowa State
• #10 Kansas

Sun Belt: 5

• #3 Old Dominion
• #3 Southern Miss
• #6 South Alabama
• #10 Appalachian State
• #13 James Madison

MAC: 4

• #1 Central Michigan
• #8 Toledo
• #9 Eastern Michigan
• #13 Western Michigan

PAC-12: 4

• #3 Utah
• #8 Colorado
• #9 Arizona
• #12 USC

WCC: 4

• #4 Pacific
• #5 Portland
• #6 Pepperdine
• #7 Gonzaga

SEC: 4

• #10 Arkansas
• #11 Alabama
• #12 South Carolina
• #12 Kentucky

Mountain West: 3

• #4 Air Force
• #12 Nevada
• #13 UNLV

Big East: 2

• #1 St. John's
• #2 Seton Hall

American: 2

• #1 Temple
• #11 Tulane

Big West: 2

• #2 UC Irvine
• #13 Hawaii

Atlantic 10: 2

• #4 Duquesne
• #11 Davidson

Atlantic Sun: 2

• #5 Jacksonville
• #11 Florida Gulf Coast

ACC: 2

• #7 Virginia Tech
• #8 Virginia

[TuscanSota]

Additional Information:

17 A/B (February 5th and 7th): Round of 64, early stages of NIT and CBI

 

17 C/D (February 9th and 10th): Round of 32, NIT Second Round

 

18 A/B (February 12th and 14th): Sweet 16 Games, NIT Quarterfinals, CBI Quarter Finals

19 A/B (February 19th and 21st) - Elite 8, NIT Semifinals, CBI Semifinals

20 A (February 26th) - Final Four, NIT Championship, CBI Championship, Toilet Game

20 B (February 28th) - 2023 SimCBB National Championship (pending to be moved to either Friday or Saturday)

[kwheele]

is there a link to the bracket somewhere?

 

[Wahoo]

On 2/3/2024 at 6:25 PM, kwheele said:

is there a link to the bracket somewhere?

 

In the initial post, Postseason Brackets in bold is a link