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NCAA Tournament 2024: Top seeds, snubs revealed as full 68-team field is drawn
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NCAA Tournament action is upon us. After a wild week of conference tournament play, the NCAA selection committee revealed the full 2024 tournament bracket on Sunday afternoon.
Let’s not waste any time and get to the goods right away. Here’s the 68-team field:
East Region (Boston)
- UConn
- Iowa State
- Illinois
- Auburn
- San Diego State
- BYU
- Washington State
- Florida Atlantic
- Northwestern
- Drake
- Duquesne
- UAB
- Yale
- Morehead State
- South Dakota State
- Stetson
Midwest Region (Detroit)
- Purdue
- Tennessee
- Creighton
- Kansas
- Gonzaga
- South Carolina
- Texas
- Utah State
- TCU
- Virginia/Colorado State (First Four)
- Oregon
- McNeese State
- Samford
- Akron
- Saint Peter’s
- Montana State/Grambling State (First Four)
West Region (Los Angeles)
- North Carolina
- Arizona
- Baylor
- Alabama
- Saint Mary’s
- Clemson
- Dayton
- Mississippi State
- Michigan State
- Nevada
- New Mexico
- Grand Canyon
- Charleston
- Colgate
- Long Beach State
- Howard/Wagner (First Four)
South Region (Dallas)
- Houston
- Marquette
- Kentucky
- Duke
- Wisconsin
- Texas Tech
- Florida
- Nebraska
- Texas A&M
- Boise State/Colorado (First Four)
- NC State
- James Madison
- Vermont
- Oakland
- Western Kentucky
- Longwood
UConn is the favorite to win the title at most online sportsbook apps. Auburn, following a run to the conference title in the SEC Tournament, is tied with Tennessee for the shortest odds of any SEC team to win the title at FanDuel (+1600).
At the other end of the bracket, Saturday was a costly day on the bubble. NC State made an unlikely run to win the ACC Tournament and swiped the ACC’s auto bid. In Las Vegas, Oregon stole the Pac-12’s auto bid by upsetting Arizona in the Pac-12 Tournament semis and beating Colorado in the title game.
Conference tournaments were largely dominated this season by lower-seeded teams. The vast majority of 1-seeds didn’t win their respective tournaments. It didn’t happen in the SEC, it didn’t happen in the Big 12, it didn’t happen in the Big Ten, and it didn’t happen in the ACC.
And chaos elsewhere shrunk the bubble.
Just not enough to squeeze Texas A&M out of the field. FanDuel was running a prop with less than 15 minutes to go before Sunday’s selection show with Texas A&M to make the field of 68 priced at -670. The Aggies missing the tournament had +400 odds. When the bracket was revealed, A&M was shown as a 9-seed.
Colorado State was the last team into the field. Oklahoma, Seton Hall, Indiana State, and Pitt were the first 4 teams left out of the bracket. Most notably, St. John’s and Providence weren’t close to the field despite holding NET rankings of 32nd and 57th respectively.
Games in the First Four are set for March 19-20 in Dayton, Ohio. First-round NCAA Tournament games begin on March 21.
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Conferences with multiple bids
- SEC — 8
- Big 12 — 8
- Big Ten — 6
- Mountain West — 6
- ACC — 5
- Pac-12 — 4
- Big East — 3
- American — 2
- Atlantic 10 — 2
- WCC — 2
Derek Peterson does a bit of everything, not unlike Taysom Hill. He has covered Oklahoma, Nebraska, the Pac-12, and now delivers CFB-wide content.
