With the Seminoles automatically advancing, Duke finishes the year with a middling 13-9 record (9-9 ACC) that almost certainly won’t see the school appear in the 68-team field when brackets are revealed. The Blue Devils had their already slim chances of making a miraculous romp through the ACC Tournament dashed due to an outbreak of coronavirus that forced the program to cancel it’s conference quarterfinal showdown with Florida State. These NCAA Tournament fixtures both struggled tremendously during the 2020-21 campaign and weren’t able to cobble together a late-season run they needed to defy the odds and make the field. The two most notable teams that are projected to miss out on March Madness this year are Duke and Kentucky. The Big Ten Network tweeted out a clip of Andy Katz discussing the ramifications of Friday’s conference tournament results and how they figure to impact the seedings in the 2021 NCAA Tournament: The outcome of these games and tomorrow’s final are expected to figure heavily into the selection process for several No. Michigan, Illinois, Iowa and Ohio State are all still alive going into the event’s semifinal round on Saturday, with the Wolverines taking on the Buckeyes and Hawkeyes matching up with the Fighting Illini this afternoon. The Big Ten Tournament results will have significant influence in how the committee elects to dole out some of these coveted top seeds. The remaining regional leaders still need to be determined, but Lunardi believes that Michigan, Illinois and Baylor will each top a region in the 2021 NCAA Tournament. Īfter an incredible, 26-0 run through the regular season and WCC Tournament, Gonzaga is pretty much guaranteed to earn a No. Joe Lunardi's bracketology predictions for March Madness as of 9 am ET on 3/13. In years prior, geographic concerns would have the committee try to place the top schools in regions closer to their respective campuses, a seeding factor that won’t be accounted for this year as each of the 63 proper tournament games and all four of the First Four matchups will be held within the state of Indiana.ĮSPN’s Joe Lunardi, the foremost expert in the bracketology field, recently posted his latest prediction for how the complete 2021 NCAA Tournament bracket will look once the committee has finished its work on Selection Sunday: 1 seed in the same region with the weakest No. This has been the case since 1985 when the tourney expanded to its current 64-team format, but the s-curve methodology will simplify the seeding process to match the strongest No. The March Madness brackets will still function the same, being sorted into four regions with 16 teams each. Because March Madness is being centralized in the greater Indianapolis area, the seeding process will no longer account for a school’s location when building the brackets. Below you can find all the automatic bid recipients thus far:Ģ021 Conference Tournament Results (Winners Receive Automatic Bids)Ī new wrinkle for this year’s NCAA Tournament is that the committee will be using an “s-curve” system to seed all 68 programs in the field. Only 11 conference tournaments have concluded as of Saturday morning, but another 15-including the ACC, Big 12, Big East and Pac-12-will have crowned their champion and have a guaranteed NCAA Tournament representative by the end of the night. Many of the bigger conference tourneys will be ongoing through the weekend, with the conclusion of these events determining the remaining auto bids-of which there are 31 in total, one for each Division 1 conference minus the Ivy League, which elected not to play this season-while the selection committee will finalize the 37 at-large bids just prior to the official bracket reveal tomorrow night.
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