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Sportv Men’s Bracketology: 2025 NCAA Tournament
By Joe Lunardi Updated: 11/19/2024 at 11:15 a.m. ET
A new college basketball season is well underway. Here at Bracketology HQ, we track every result from November until April, ranking and re-ranking what will eventually comprise the NCAA tournament’s field of 68. We’ll update the bracket every Tuesday for the remainder of November and December, before moving to twice-weekly updates when conference play picks up in January 2025.
Bracket Watch
I might not always agree, but there’s a reason the NCAA men’s basketball selection committee insists November results mean just as much as late-season games. Let’s go back a week to the final media timeout of the Champions Classic. Kentucky had come from double digits down to tie Duke. The underdog Wildcats managed to win those last four minutes, not only notching the first major victory of the Mark Pope era but creating the kind of bracket disruption not normally seen this early in the season. Combined with Alabama’s unsurprising loss at Purdue, the door opened for two new No. 1 seeds: Auburn and UConn. Former top-liner Duke drops all the way to a 3-seed in the shuffle, while Kentucky leaps three lines to join the Blue Devils. This week’s other big winners are Wisconsin, which smoked Arizona at home, and Nevada, which ran its record to 4-0 against a quality mid-major slate. The Badgers and Wolf Pack join the at-large field in place of Kansas State and Maryland.
On the Bubble
68-Team Bracket
MIDWEST (INDIANAPOLIS)
Wichita
Milwaukee
Raleigh
Cleveland
EAST (NEWARK)
Providence
Providence
Wichita
Lexington
WEST (SAN FRANCISCO)
Seattle
Seattle
Denver
Cleveland
SOUTH (ATLANTA)
Lexington
Denver
Raleigh
Milwaukee
Conference Breakdown
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