March Madness 2024 Bracket Predictions: Field of 68 for the NCAA Tournament projected ft. Houston 

Joe Cox
Houston and Purdue are two NCAA Tournament favorites.
Houston and Purdue are two NCAA Tournament favorites.

With March comes March Madness. Brackets take control of college hoops. Teams are on the bubble or in the field. While conference tournaments will first take the stage, the Big Dance is just around the corner. It's a good time to discuss the pending NCAA field.

While the NCAA Tournament highlights a fan base that values upsets, the favorites often win out. The average NCAA Final Four has a cumulative total seed of 11. This means one or two mildly upset teams generally join two or three relative favorites.

This season's potential No. 1 seeds all look particularly impressive. UConn, Houston, Purdue and Arizona are all clear choices for some of the top squads in college basketball, and each seems likely to defend its claims to success. But who might they face? Per the composite bracket assembled from 109 different projections at bracketmatrix.com, here's where the Tournament field stands.

2024 March Madness Bracket Predictions

UConn and guard Cam Spencer are the current betting favorites to win the 2024 NCAA Touranment.
UConn and guard Cam Spencer are the current betting favorites to win the 2024 NCAA Touranment.
Seed Number
1PurdueHoustonUConnArizona
2North CarolinaTennesseeMarquetteKansas
3Iowa StateAlabamaDukeBaylor
4CreightonAuburn San Diego St.Illinois
5KentuckyWisconsinClemsonDayton
6BYUWashington St. St. Mary'sSouth Carolina
7Utah StateFloridaTexas TechColorado St.
8TCUOklahomaMississippi St.Northwestern
9Boise StateMichigan St.NebraskaTexas
10Florida AtlanticNevadaNew Mexico Virginia
11Seton Hall/
Wake Forest
Indiana StateProvidence/
Gonzaga
Richmond
12PrincetonGrand CanyonSouth FloridaMcNeese St.
13Appalachian St.SamfordUC IrvineAkron
14Louisiana TechVermontCollege of CharlestonHigh Point
15OaklandMorehead St.Eastern WashingtonColgate
16FairfieldSouth Dakota St.Norfolk St./MerrimackEastern Ky./Grambling

2024 March Madness Start Date

The NCAA Tournament's First Four will play on March 19 and 20. The opening round of the full Tournament then follows on March 21 and 22. The Sweet 16 will be on March 28 and 29. The Final Four will begin on April 6, with the NCAA title game taking place on April 8.

Who is projected to win NCAA Tournament 2024?

Top betting odds to win the 2024 NCAA Tournament are with UConn, with the Huskies currently at +500. They are soon followed by Purdue and Houston, each listing at +700. Finally, Arizona and Tennessee round out the list of possible Tournament favorites at +1200. All odds taken from FanDuel.

NCAA Basketball Rankings Top 25

The NCAA's NET Rankings current top 25 are:

RankingTeamConferenceOverall RecordRoadNeutralHomeQuad 1Quad 2 Quad 3Quad 4
1HoustonBig 1226-36-34-016-010-34-05-07-0
2PurdueBig Ten27-37-35-015-011-36-07-03-0
3UConnBig East26-36-34-016-010-35-02-09-0
4ArizonaPac-1223-66-32-215-17-36-28-12-0
5TennesseeSEC23-67-32-214-17-55-16-05-0
6AuburnSEC23-75-54-114-11-78-09-05-0
7AlabamaSEC20-105-52-313-24-97-16-03-0
8Iowa St.Big 1223-65-41-217-06-45-23-09-0
9DukeACC24-67-42-015-25-36-37-06-0
10North CarolinaACC24-67-23-314-16-46-27-05-0
11CreightonBig East22-87-51-114-27-67-21-07-0
12BYUBig 1221-83-63-015-26-53-33-09-0
13BaylorBig 1221-84-43-214-28-65-23-05-0
14MarquetteBig East22-76-52-114-18-64-14-06-0
15IllinoisBig Ten22-85-52-015-35-65-27-05-0
16KansasBig 1221-83-63-115-17-65-15-14-0
17GonzagaWCC23-68-23-212-23-53-14-013-0
18Saint Mary's (CA)WCC23-79-01-313-44-33-23-213-0
19San Diego St.Mountain West20-85-83-012-03-76-14-07-0
20KentuckySEC21-86-32-113-45-62-19-15-0
21DaytonAtlantic 1023-66-53-114-03-35-38-07-0
22Michigan St.Big Ten17-123-61-213-44-84-45-04-0
23WisconsinBig Ten18-113-82-013-36-76-42-04-0
24ClemsonACC21-96-53-012-45-45-36-25-0
25VillanovaBig East17-124-73-110-44-76-22-35-0

Who do you think will win the NCAA Tournament? Any teams underrated or overrated heading into March Madness? Let us hear your thoughts in the comments section below.

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