NCAA Division 1 College Hoops (And Olympics) Talk and Tourney Projections
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 […]
2 days ago | 4 reads
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.) […]
3 days ago | 1 read
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 […]
3 days ago | 4 reads
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 […]
3 days ago | 3 reads
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 […]
3 days ago | 2 reads
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 […]
3 days ago | 2 reads
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. […]
4 days ago | 2 reads
2026 America East Conference Men’s Basketball Playoffs Basics Format Traditional bracket with reseeding Site The higher seeds host on campus. UMBC is the No. 1 seed and will have home court advantage through to the final. For the second season in a row, Vermont has been locked out of the top seed. The Catamounts monopolized […]
4 days ago | 3 reads
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 […]
5 days ago | 4 reads
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 […]
5 days ago | 0 reads
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 […]
8 days ago | 1 read
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 […]
8 days ago | 1 read
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 […]
13 days ago | 3 reads
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 […]
15 days ago | 6 reads
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 […]
15 days ago | 0 reads
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 […]
18 days ago | 1 read
This will be the final bracket projection of 2026 that is not based on whatever guidance the Selection Committee provides during Saturday’s Bracket Preview special. As usual, I will be tremendously interested in what they’re valuing the most this season, particularly as this week’s results have led to a change on the top line that […]
20 days ago | 1 read
The midweek edition of College Basketball Coast to Coast is up in time for Tuesday’s loaded schedule. This afternoon, T.J. Rives and I discussed … Be sure to follow/subscribe to the show on Apple/Spreaker/Spotify, or wherever else you get your podcast fix. You can even find our Youtube page (see immediately below too) and visit […]
22 days ago | 1 read
Since Friday’s bracket, former No. 1 overall seed Arizona dropped it second game in a row, while Big 12 title rival Iowa State swept a Saturday/Monday homestand featuring a resurgent Kansas squad and a Houston club that was poised to jump up to the top line with a road win. That leaves us with a […]
22 days ago | 1 read
Since it’s one month and two days from Selection Sunday, it’s time to get back in the groove with College Basketball Coast to Coast. T.J. Rives and I covered a lot of ground nationally, as the field of 68 continues to take shape, including: Be sure to follow/subscribe to the show on Apple/Spreaker/Spotify, or wherever […]
26 days ago | 0 reads
The top seven teams in today’s bracket match those in Tuesday’s edition, with the first change coming at the end of seed line 2. That’s where Purdue jumped Nebraska after the Boilermakers’ thrilling OT victory in Lincoln—a game which featured a furious Cornhusker comeback. The next change in the top 16 came at the very […]
26 days ago | 1 read
With Arizona’s loss to Kansas on Monday night, the Miami (Ohio) RedHawks are now the nation’s lone undefeated team in men’s Division I college basketball. Unfortunately for the MAC leaders, their profile may not warrant an at-large bid at this point, let alone a spot on the top seed line, and that’s not likely to […]
30 days ago | 7 reads
On Wednesday night, Gonzaga did this … As a result, the Bulldogs slipped down to the 3 line, with Houston replacing them as a 2. While I did shuffle things around a bit after analyzing each team’s results-based and predictive metrics a bit more closely, this was the only seed line change among the top […]
about 1 month ago | 6 reads
Today’s four No. 1 seeds, Arizona, UConn, Duke, and Michigan, have a combined record of 83-3 heading into the first week of February, with the Wolverines solidifying their place among the elite of the elite by defeating both 2 seed Nebraska at Crisler and 3 seed Michigan State in East Lansing. The quartet of No. […]
about 1 month ago | 5 reads
Given Nebraska lost to Michigan by just three on Tuesday, while being down two key players, it shouldn’t be much of a surprise that the only thing that changed for the two teams in today’s bracket is the auto bid designation. But there’s still plenty to be decided in what is currently an 11-bid Big […]
about 1 month ago | 4 reads