![]() ![]() Duke matchup looming on Thursday is going to be one to watch in the East Region, the same of which can be said of a red-hot Penn State team facing Texas in the Midwest and even this fired-up Arkansas team facing Kansas in the West Region.Īnd that’s just after one day. The South Region is now wide-open for the top-seeded Crimson Tide with Arizona out and no one truly looking all that dominant in the games we saw on Thursday. With 16 games under our belt after Thursday’s action, let’s take a look at the updated 2023 NCAA Tournament bracket.Īlabama is one of my big takeaways here. March Madness bracket live 2023: Updated bracket after Thursday First Round games So what does the 2023 March Madness live bracket look like now? Let’s take a look as we head into Friday’s finisher for the First Round. These college basketball streets are wild right now with only a few hundred perfect brackets remaining. That was just the appetizer, though, as later in the day, we saw a 15-seeded Princeton team come out of nowhere after trailing for most of the game against Arizona and pull off a 15-over-2 upset for the third-straight tournament. 13-seed Furman shocked the world on a wild finish against 4-seeded Virginia to pull off a massive upset in the second game that tipped off in March Madness. ![]() The madness truly got started almost right away. While the hope of a perfect bracket is a lofty goal to begin with, but the chaotic scenes from Thursday’s First Round games in the NCAA Tournament made that even more so. Is your 2023 March Madness bracket busted? You aren’t alone. BennettĬlick here to download The Athletic’s 2023 men’s NCAA Tournament bracket.Let’s check in on the live March Madness bracket after Thursday’s First Round games featuring big upsets to bust your NCAA Tournament bracket. 5 seed, will take on a popular Cinderella pick in Oral Roberts, which went undefeated in the Summit League and has a star guard in Max Abmas, who helped lead the Golden Eagles to the Sweet 16 two years ago.Looking ahead to the second round, we could get Texas-Texas A&M, Duke- Tennessee and UConn-Saint Mary’s, if those teams advance. All the 8-9 games are intriguing, especially Illinois– Arkansas. Kentucky will face Providence and its star Bryce Hopkins, who transferred from the Wildcats last year. Penn State, which nearly won the Big Ten tournament, is a high-level 7-10 game. Bennett Most intriguing first-round matchups? The committee has shown it time and time again: Play good teams out of your conference, or suffer the consequences. Rutgers also got punished for a bad out-of-league schedule, missing the field despite wins at Purdue, Northwestern, Penn State and against Indiana. The Aggies, though, played a bad nonconference schedule, which cost them a bid last year and knocked them a couple seed lines lower this time around. 1 overall seed Alabama in the regular-season finale. 7 seed despite playing like one of the best teams in the country in the final few months, including a win over No. Brian Bennett, The Athletic ’s bracketologist Who got snubbed? Nevada making the field as the fourth team from the Mountain West was also a surprise, as most bracketologists had them out. The Cougars could potentially face Auburn in Birmingham in the second round - the committee flubbed big time on that one - then either Xavier or Indiana in the Sweet 16 and possibly Big 12 tournament champ Texas, which could have been a No. To be fair, Houston didn’t get a substantially easier path. It’s a rough way to treat the defending champs. That’s if the Jayhawks can get by teams like UConn and Saint Mary’s in the top half of the bracket. ![]() To top it off, Kansas got sent out West, where it could have to contend with UCLA and Gonzaga in their time zone in a potential Elite Eight showdown. ![]()
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