Matt Browning’s Bracketology

🚨🏀Friday bracket update ⬆️Oklahoma (Last Team In...for now) ⬇️Auburn (3rd Team Out) ↔️New Mexico (1st Team Out), SMU (2nd Team Out), San Diego State (4th Team Out)

As the season concludes tonight, I just want to give a sincere thanks to all of you. I sincerely appreciate the follows, likes, retweets and interactions. No matter what the college basketball landscape looks like, I will always love it. I hope that’s what I portray with this account. Enjoy the game and if you’re so inclined, One Shining Moment, too. Thank you again! ❤️

This one gave me all of the feels.

Props to @kerrancejames for the idea. Here is where the Elite Eight teams ranked in my preseason bracket: Purdue - 3 Duke - 5 Michigan - 6 UConn - 8 Arizona - 14 Tennessee - 16 Illinois - 19 Iowa - 39

With speculation that Kansas coach Bill Self might retire, I gave some thought to my top 10 men's coaches of all-time. Here is what I came up with: 1. Wooden 2. Krzyzewski 3. Williams 4. Rupp 5. Knight 6. Smith 7. Calhoun 8. Pitino 9. Crum 10. Self Next: Tom Izzo, Jim Boeheim, Jay Wright, John Calipari, Lute Olsen What do you think?

.@BrandonGaudin having himself a fantastic debut on the 🎙️ in his first year of TV NCAA Tournament duties, by the way. He's a keeper.

Will likely throw this away in 12 hours.

@kerrancejames I bet this goes well.

In honor of the greatest day on the sports calendar, I’m unmuting everyone I’ve ever muted on here. Please don’t make me regret it.

@UnfurledBracket @SWRBracketology @GrahamDoeren @Bauertology @801bracketology @T3Bracketology @TSBBracketology @FromTheLogoBR @madeformarch @OtterBrackets @JBRBracketology @BracketNky @BracketDom Thanks brother! I enjoy this community so much - we learn so much from each other. It truly is special.

@SWRBracketology @GrahamDoeren @Bauertology @801bracketology @T3Bracketology @TSBBracketology @FromTheLogoBR @madeformarch @OtterBrackets @JBRBracketology @BracketNky @BracketDom @MBBracketology I probably forgot someone but these guys put out great content

Some retrospective on this years bracket: I know I said the committee usually does nothing after Friday but this year they clearly valued the weekend results and they broadcasted that. I had to act accordingly so I moved Purdue up to the 2 ✅ and bumped up Ark and St Johns ✅

This is EXACTLY how I felt this morning. Going through withdrawals.

@danafuel @BracketDom @JBRBracketology @801bracketology 376

@BracketDom @JBRBracketology @MBBracketology @801bracketology What were your paymon scores this year?

@Collegehoopsguy Sure am! But it’s a pleasant surprise. Hope future committees also factor in today’s games.

@MBBracketology Matt are you surprised at how much today's results mattered? (based on my seed list) Zona jumps Michigan, Purdue to the 2 line with a ripple effect down to Vandy

Like everyone else, had all 68 teams correct. We had 52 teams on the exact seed line and the remaining 16 teams within one seed-line. Our score of 376 is the best we’ve ever had! Excellent work by this year’s selection committee. Only minor gripe is Vanderbilt as a 5-seed, but other than that job well done! Let the madness begin!

🚨🏀Our final bracket! Very proud of the efforts by our mock selection committee! What do you think?

We have two brackets finished - depending on the AAC championship game result.

@KeithKe42312104 UCLA for sure. Clemson/St. Mary's was tough.

@MBBracketology I'd have Clemson and UCLA over St Marys on 7 line?

Here are the four "areas" we are looking at: Nebraska/Virginia for the last 3-seed Kansas/St. John's (again) for the last 4-seed Clemson/UCLA for the last 7-seed Georgia/TCU for the last 8-seed

@dwillis_107 The voting wasn't particularly close. Vanderbilt was No. 14 overall.

@MBBracketology Curious why they wouldn’t be over Nebraska after beating Florida yesterday? Better predictive metrics than Nebraska

@dwillis_107 No they are 4-seed.

@MBBracketology No 3 seed for Vandy?

We have bracketed the entire field. Now we go back and scrub.