We’re still a long way away from the 2022-23 college basketball season. However, that is not stopping ESPN’s Joe Lunardi from putting out his updated NCAA Tournament Bracketology for 2023.
Lunardi notes that it’s a “fool’s errand” to compile a bracket this far out, but since he started doing an April bracket in 2005, Lunardi averages two No. 1 seeds landing in the same spot on Selection Sunday and about 20 at-large teams making the field. Obviously, this is simply a starting point as we wait for November to roll around when all of the fun starts again.
Looking ahead to the 2023 NCAA Tournament, the regionals will be held in Las Vegas (West), Kansas City (Midwest), New York (East), and Louisville (South) with it all coming to an end in Houston at NRG Stadium for the Final Four.
As for the seeding, Lunardi has the Liberty Flames in his early bracket as the ASUN’s automatic qualifier as a 12 seed. They’re in the West Region and matched up against 5-seed Alabama. The winner would advance to play the winner of 4-seed TCU and 13-seed Grand Canyon. This projection has the Flames higher than Lunardi’s first Bracketology for 2023 which came out last month. Certainly the return of Darius McGhee helps bolster the expectations for Liberty entering the season.
The No. 1 seeds are Kentucky (South), Houston (West), Baylor (Midwest), and North Carolina (East). The reigning National Champion Kansas Jayhawks are projected as a 2 seed in the South Region.
