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First Bracketology of the 2022-23 Season (1-7-23)

 The college basketball season is marching along and working it's way into league play for the 2022-23 season. As we continue to inch and inch towards March, there is no doubt that there will be teams that fall from grace and that ascend from obscurity as we stand right now. This is what makes the sport great. That being said, let's get into my first bracket projection of this season, and get ready to enjoy the ride.


This is based, in part, on my own personal algorithm which includes a teams stats, plus more data from other advanced metrics like KenPom and the NCAA Evaluation Tool (NET), as well as their performances in NET quadrants. 

AS OF the morning of 1-7-23

1 SEEDs  

Houston
Tennessee
Kansas
Purdue

2 SEEDS
Connecticut
UCLA
Arizona
Alabama

3 SEEDS
Texas
Arkansas
Virginia
TCU

4 SEEDS
Gonzaga
Xavier
Kansas State
Ohio State

5 SEEDS
Indiana
Auburn
Baylor
Duke

6 SEEDS
Miami (FL)
Wisconsin
San Diego State
Marquette

7 SEEDS
Rutgers
West Virginia
Iowa State
Providence

8 SEEDS
Missouri
North Carolina
Michigan State
Virginia Tech

9 SEEDS
Saint Mary's
Memphis
Kentucky
Creighton

10 SEEDS
Utah State
Florida Atlantic
Utah
New Mexico

11 SEEDS
Illinois
Pittsburgh
NC State
Mississippi State
Maryland
Northwestern

12 SEEDS
Charleston
Iona
Dayton
Liberty

13 SEEDS
Kent State
Oral Roberts
James Madison
Southern Illinois

14 SEEDS
UC Santa Barbara
Utah Valley
Princeton
Furman

15 SEEDS
UMass Lowell
Colgate
Longwood
Eastern Washington

16 SEEDS
SIU Edwardsville
Texas A&M CC
Norfolk State
Northern Kentucky
Southern
Fairleigh Dickinson

 

Here is the rest of the bubble as I see it.

 

First 4 OUT

Oklahoma State

Penn State

LSU

Oklahoma

Next 4 OUT

Clemson

Texas Tech

Arizona State

Iowa

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