Ncaa brackett update

Baylor is the defending national champion. The Bears beat Gonzaga to win the title. PDF in a new window. Here is the complete schedule for the tournament, including dates, locations and venues by round :. We tracked verifiable perfect brackets from all major bracket games throughout the entire tournament.

The last perfect ones busted on Saturday. No one came within shouting distance this season of Gregg Nigl, who picked the first 49 games correctly in before his first miss. There are two ways that a team can earn a bid to the NCAA tournament. The 32 Division I conferences all receive an automatic bid there were 31 in , which they each award to the team that wins the postseason conference tournament.

Regardless of how a team performed during the regular season, if they are eligible for postseason play and win their conference tournament, they are selected to receive a bid to the NCAA tournament.

Baylor AQ , 2. Kansas, 5. Texas Tech , 6. Iowa State, 7. West Virginia, 7. Oklahoma, 8. Texas Big East - 7: 2. Villanova, 5. UConn , 6. Xavier, 6. Seton Hall, 7. Providence AQ , Marquette, Creighton SEC - 6: 1.

Auburn AQ , 1. LSU, 4. Alabama, 5. Tennessee, 5. Kentucky, Duke, 9. Miami Fla. AQ , North Carolina, They had not lost to a team from the state of California in 1, days, winning the last 20 in-state meetings in a row, including their Stanford game last March when they hammered the Cardinal USC struggled to score and the defense that had held 12 of 13 opponents under 40 percent shooting could not stop the Cardinal offense.

Look closely at Stanford, and you noticed signs that should have been a warning: The unbeaten record at home. The fact the Cardinal had never been out-rebounded this season, until the Trojans edged them by one. And they have spent their history going eyeball-to-eyeball with USC. This result puts that series at all. They also have a mission. They should all now know Stanford is more than the team picked to finished ninth in the league in the pre-season.

So the only unbeaten team left in Division I basketball is the Colorado women. But how about a one-loss team? In a rather curious statistical quirk, you have to go even further back in time to find the last of those. There are still seven one-loss teams in But as Tuesday suggested with another wild night — Kansas beat Iowa State by a point after four lead changes in the final 38 seconds, Auburn held off Alabama in the first top matchup between the two uneasy neighbors in 35 years, Florida State slipped past Miami with free throws at 0.

Division I Men's Basketball.