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The bracket below represents a combination of the preseason AP and USA Today Top 25 polls and other under-the-radar conferences that have announced their preseason picks to win their respective conferences. For ranking all of the under-the-radar teams (along with any tiebreakers among at-large caliber teams), we took the highest rated team from the comprehensive 1-351 list from CBSSports.com (click here). If you’re also wondering why the Midwest Region says 32 and the South Region says 36, that is a sampling of the total composite score of the top 4 seeds of each region (a variance of up to 5 is permitted).
Potential 2nd-round matchups like Michigan-Purdue and Arizona-Colorado are also permissible as long as they do not play each other in their respective conference tournaments. The only “soft” bracketing rule that I did not consider were rematches from the past two NCAA Tournaments; I will leave it to our rules expert Chad to note any potential conflicts.
Tonight, be on the lookout as we announce Chad Sherwood’s preseason bracket based on all of his conference previews.
*Also note that the bracketing rules dictate that the Clemson/Pittsburgh and Michigan/Mississippi State play-in games had to be flipped with each other.