NCAA Offers First Ever In-Season Look At NCAA Tournament Bracket

The NCAA for the first time will release the Top 16 Seeds for the NCAA Tournament during the season and before March Madness.

The date to circle is Saturday, February 11th.  The Associated Press and Coaches Poll give a weekly look at the media and coaches thoughts on the top teams in the country. The NCAA will reveal for the first time – and during the season – their look at the Top 16 Seeds as the Regular season comes to a close.

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For teams like Oregon, UCLA, an Arizona who currently sit inside the Top 10 in what is a jumbled puzzle. The Ducks have beated UCLA but are below them. Arizona has beaten UCLA but is ranked above Oregon. Both the Ducks and Wildcats will meet at Matthew Knight Arena next week.

The NCAA Selection Committee will set the field, but it will still be up to fans to figure out the seeding. With the Top 16, we can assume that 1-4 will be the Number 1 Seeds, but of course we won’t be 100 percent sure until Selection Sunday following the regular season and the Pac-12 Tournament.

For teams like Oregon and Head Coach Dana Altman I’m not even sure it is a metric he will look at. It’s like more a ‘grain of salt’ approach. The Ducks have a 16 game winning streak, the longest in their history. They have won 38 straight games at home. Altman has to believe that if you win your games, the rest will take care of itself.

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For those of us who are fans, Saturday, February 11th at 9:30am Pacific Time will give some insight into what the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee is looking for before March Madness takes over.