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Sportv 2024 NCAA Tournament Bracketology
By Joe Lunardi Updated: 1/2/2024 at 9:30 a.m. ET
Bracketology is in its 30th season on ESPN.com. From now until Selection Sunday on March 17, we’ll keep you up to date on the postseason chances and projection of your favorite teams. Our brackets update Tuesday during the nonconference schedule before shifting to twice a week — Tuesday and Friday — once conference play hits in earnest in January. We culminate with daily updates throughout Championship Week in March, all with an eye toward the 2024 NCAA men’s basketball tournament.
Bracket Watch
The new year brings a new team to the top line, but it’s hard to call defending champ and five-time NCAA winner UConn a newcomer. The Huskies have made multiple appearances as a 1-seed in our projections and move up in this edition on the heels of Arizona’s blowout loss at Stanford. The Wildcats at times look like an NBA team and at other times — against the Cardinal on New Year’s Eve, versus Princeton in March — can’t get out of their own way. Arizona is too talented and, on the way to the No. 1 seed in the West, too perfect for it not to eventually land on the top line. But the likes of UConn, Tennessee, Marquette and Kentucky are going to make the Wildcats earn it.
On the Bubble
68-Team Bracket
MIDWEST (DETROIT)
Indianapolis
Pittsburgh
Brooklyn
Indianapolis
EAST (BOSTON)
Brooklyn
Spokane
Salt Lake
Charlotte
SOUTH (DALLAS)
Omaha
Pittsburgh
Memphis
Charlotte
WEST (LOS ANGELES)
Omaha
Spokane
Memphis
Salt Lake
Conference Breakdown
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