We’re still a long way away from the 2022-23 college basketball season and do not have full clarity on who will be on everyone’s roster when the season starts, as there are well over 1,000 players currently in the transfer portal. However, that is not stopping ESPN’s Joe Lunardi from putting out his first 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 14 seed. They’re in the South Region and matched up against 3 seed Duke.
The No. 1 seeds are Kentucky (South), Houston (Midwest), Baylor (East), and UCLA (West). The reigning National Champion Kansas Jayhawks are projected as a 2 seed in the South Region.
