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:
Update: Not that we’ve reached Championship Week, teams in BOLD are teams who have received their league’s automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.
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: March 17 | 5:30 p.m. ET – FINAL
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.
| MARCH 17 | 1-68 | |||
| 1. Duke | 2. Virginia | 3. North Carolina | 4. Gonzaga |
| 5. Tennessee | 6. Michigan State | 7. Kentucky | 8. Michigan |
| 9. Houston | 10. LSU | 11. Florida State | 12. Texas Tech |
| 13. Purdue | 14. Kansas | 15. Wisconsin | 16. Iowa State |
| 17. Virginia Tech | 18. Kansas State | 19. Villanova | 20. Marquette |
| 21. Auburn | 22. Mississippi St | 23. Maryland | 24. Cincinnati |
| 25. Buffalo | 26. Wofford | 27. Nevada | 28. Louisville |
| 29. Seton Hall | 30. Iowa | 31. Ole Miss | 32. Minnesota |
| 33. Baylor | 34. UCF | 35. Utah State | 36. Syracuse |
| 37. Oklahoma | 38. Washington | 39. TCU | 40. Florida |
| 41. VCU | 42. Ohio State | 43. Temple | 44. St. John’s |
| 45. Arizona State | 46. Oregon | 47. Saint Mary’s | 48. Murray State |
| 49. New Mexico St | 50. Liberty | ||
| 51. UC-Irvine | 52. Vermont | 53. Northeastern | 54. Old Dominion |
| 55. Georgia State | 56. Yale | 57. Saint Louis | 58. No Kentucky |
| 59. Colgate | 60. Bradley | 61. Montana | 62. Gardner-Webb |
| 63. Ab Christian | 64. Prairie View | 65. Iona | 66. Fair-Dickinson |
| 67. No Dakota St | 68. NC Central | ||
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 – 76 |
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| 69. Belmont | 70. NC State | 71. Indiana | 72. Alabama |
| 73. NC Greensboro | 74. Furman | 75. Xavier | 76. Texas |
Gonzaga is locked in as a #1? Any way Michigan State gets to the 1 line?
Michigan State is certainly in play for a No. 1 seed. Having lost to Saint Mary’s, the door is ajar for Gonzaga to be passed for a seat on the No. 1 seed line. But, the Zags overall excellence and metric performance still give them an excellent chance.