NCAA Bracketology: Predicting 2017 March Madness tournament field

The conference tournaments have concluded, and the NCAA

Tournament Selection Show is less than an hour away. This is our final bracketology of 2016-17. Thanks for following along.

Teams are listed from 1-68.

1: Villanova (Big East AQ), Kansas (Big 12 AQ), Gonzaga

(West Coast AQ), Duke (ACC AQ)

2: Arizona (Pac-12 AQ), North Carolina, Kentucky (SEC

AQ), UCLA

3: Louisville, Oregon, Baylor, Florida

4: Florida State, Notre Dame, Butler, Purdue

5: West Virginia, Cincinnati, Virginia, Minnesota

6: Saint Mary’s, SMU (AAC AQ), Iowa State (Big 12 AQ),

Michigan (Big Ten AQ)

7: Wisconsin, Maryland, Miami Fla., Dayton

8: Creighton, Marquette, Northwestern, South Carolina

9: Virginia Tech, Wichita State (Missouri Valley AQ),

Oklahoma State, Vanderbilt

10: Michigan State, Arkansas, Seton Hall, VCU

11: Xavier, Kansas State/USC, Providence/Wake Forest,

Middle Tennessee (C-USA AQ)

12: Rhode Island (Atlantic 10 AQ), UNC Wilmington (Colonial

AQ), Nevada (Mountain West AQ), Vermont (America East AQ)

13: Princeton (Ivy AQ), East Tennessee State (Southern

AQ), Bucknell (Patriot AQ), Winthrop (Big South AQ)

14: Florida Gulf Coast (Atlantic Sun AQ), New Mexico State

(Western Athletic AQ), Iona (MAAC AQ), Northern Kentucky (Horizon AQ)

15: Texas Southern (SWAC AQ), Kent State (Mid-American

AQ), North Dakota (Big Sky AQ), North Carolina Central (MEAC AQ)

16: New Orleans (Southland AQ), UC Davis (Big West AQ),

South Dakota State (Summit AQ)/Mount Saint Mary’s (Northeast AQ), Jacksonville State (Ohio Valley AQ)/Troy (Sun Belt AQ)

See ya in the NIT

Syracuse, Illinois State, California, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, UT Arlington, Georgia, Houston, Georgia Tech

Multi-bid conferences

ACC: 9

Big East: 7

Big Ten: 7

Big 12: 6

SEC: 5

Pac-12: 4

Atlantic 10: 3

AAC: 2

West Coast: 2