2025-26 NCAA Basketball (Update March 29)

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You will get in regardless.

Winners of the regular season titles get automatic bids AND if you win the conference tourney you can get an automatic bid that way.

Then there will be most likely 20 at-large bids that will be decided to round out the bracket.

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League tourneys update...Gonzaga is our first league champ winning big in the NWC final. Congrats to riskmaster101 and his Bulldogs.

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Waiting for a few more results to come in then we should be able to hold our Selection Sunday ceremony over the weekend and get the NCAA and NIT tourneys underway.

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Still a few active conference tourney games, but we should be wrapping up soon. I'll take a spring break trip to the beach and we'll get March Madness underway with a Selection Show to reveal the bracket at 12 p.m. (Noon) (EST) on Friday, March 27.

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Still a few active conference tourney games, but we should be wrapping up soon. I'll take a spring break trip to the beach and we'll get March Madness underway with a Selection Show to reveal the bracket at 12 p.m. (Noon) (EST) on Friday, March 27.

What's that gonna be streaming on?

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It just happens here in the tourney thread. I'll reveal the bracket with team-by-team breakdowns. I only takes 5-10 minutes.

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Big East and Pacific tourney finals are still active.

But we have champs in the other conference tourneys ... Niagara in the Great Lakes; Creighton in the Great Plains; Tulane in the SEC and Gonzaga in the Northwest Conference.

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A reminder, the Selection Show is set for 12 p.m. (Noon EST) tomorrow (Friday). We'll reveal the brackets, break down the regions and get first-round games sent out. Good luck to all as we enter the championship phase of this event.

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Also, note: I have an ABA Basketball themed tourney in signups right now, too.

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All right, here we go with the Selection Show....we'll start with the East Region where we have #1 overall seed Georgia.

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We have Georgia and Tulane on a collision course for a potential rematch of their SEC tourney title game to determine who emerges into the Final Four out of this Region. Gonzaga and Kansas also put on late-season pushes and could be dangerous teams in this section of the bracket.

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And in the South Region, we are topped by No. 2 overall seed Oregon State.

BDSouthRegion by David Ball, on Flickr

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Oregon State spent most of the season ranked #1, and Niagara is a dangerous lower seed in this region coming off a run to the Great Lakes tournament title.

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And in the West ...

BDWestRegion by David Ball, on Flickr

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NJIT and Creighton are a pair of 20-win teams that could be on a collision course to see who comes out of this region, while USC has been sneaky good beating some top-ranked teams throughout the regular season. Arizona State is coached by a former NCAA champ as well.

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And the final region ... the Midwest.

BDMidwestRegion by David Ball, on Flickr

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James Madison has been the leader in the Northwest Conference pretty much all season, but should get challenges from a number of teams in this region with five of the six teams here sporting 20-win seasons.

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And here's the full NCAA bracket...this will also be posted and updated at the top of the tourney thread.

First round matchups will be sent out momentarily. Good luck all Have fun.

NCAABracket by David Ball, on Flickr

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And the 8-team NIT bracket.

NITBracket by David Ball, on Flickr

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A reminder that the scoring format expands in the March Madness tourney, so 8 maps in play and power-ups affect scoring. Also spoils for the winner at the end of the game factor in (cancelled if opponent has the Defensive Stopper power-up)

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Scores aren't final yet, but Tulane and Gonzaga are the first teams to advance to the Sweet 16 where they will face each other.

I'll post updated boxscores and brackets late tonight

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Congrats to Tulane making it official 85-54 giving my Portland State Vikings a colossal whooping in round 1