Seed List
Below are two tables that display the current Seed List (at the time of publication) – a tool used for my bracket projects and by the actual Selection Committee to seed teams into the bracket.
A couple of things to note:
Teams listed in BOLD are those noted as the projected automatic conference qualifier, per how the bracket is put together.
The Seed List is not a poll. It is a ranking of teams based on the overall field at the time of publication. Whether it’s RPI, KenPom or some other metric, a variety of factors go into the Seed List at any given point in time. The Seed List reflects the 68-team field – and the Top 100 teams (at the time)
Updated: December 11 | 12:00 p.m. ET
To make it easier to follow, I didn’t use an actual “S” shape on the table; rather the highest seed on each line is to the left.
| DECEMBER 11 | 1-68 | |||
| 1. Kansas | 2. Michigan | 3. Gonzaga | 4. Duke |
| 5. Tennessee | 6. Virginia | 7. Nevada | 8. Auburn |
| 9. Florida State | 10. Texas Tech | 11. Michigan State | 12. Wisconsin |
| 13. North Carolina | 14. Virginia Tech | 15. Ohio State | 16. Arizona State |
| 17. Mississippi St | 18. Indiana | 19. Marquette | 20. Buffalo |
| 21. Syracuse | 22. Maryland | 23. Iowa | 24. Villanova |
| 25. Nebraska | 26. Oklahoma | 27. NC State | 28. Cincinnati |
| 29. Houston | 30. Louisville | 31. St. John’s | 32. Minnesota |
| 33. Kentucky | 34. Kansas State | 35. Arizona | 36. Iowa State |
| 37. Texas | 38. Purdue | 39. LSU | 40. Saint Louis |
| 41. Furman | 42. UCLA | 43. Washington | 44. TCU |
| 45. Connecticut | 46. Butler | 47. Ole Miss | 48. Seton Hall |
| 49. So. Illinois | 50. New Mexico St | ||
| 51. Belmont | 52. Lipscomb | 53. UC-Irvine | 54. North Texas |
| 55. Charleston | 56. Vermont | 57. Georgia State | 58. So. Dakota St |
| 59. Penn | 60. No. Kentucky | 61. Tx-Southern | 62. Radford |
| 63. Marist | 64. Lehigh | 65. No. Colorado | 66. Nicholls |
| 67. Long Island | 68. Howard | ||
This is where the FIRST OUT at-large teams begin. As a reminder … automatic qualifiers have to be ranked within the Field of 68.
| SEED LIST | 69 – 100 |
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| 69. Creighton | 70. Clemson | 71. Arkansas | 72. UCF |
| 73. Oregon | 74. San Diego | 75. Georgetown | 76. VCU |
| 77. Tulsa | 78. Utah State | 79. Dayton | 80. Missouri |
| 81. Temple | 82. Vanderbilt | 83. Davidson | 84. Notre Dame |
| 85. Northwestern | 86. West Virginia | 87. Boston College | 88. Florida |
| 89. Oregon State | 90. Xavier | 91. NC-Greensboro | 92. Wofford |
| 93. Penn State | 94. Pittsburgh | 95. W. Kentucky | 96. Alabama |
| 97. Providence | 98. Fresno State | 99. Colorado | 100. San Diego St |
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