The Scored Bracket: 2026

Grant's final bracket · Men's NCAA field · 2026 · 68 teams

All seasons

I picked all 68 teams and matched 52 seed lines.

My final bracket before Selection Sunday, graded against the committee's field on field selection and seed line. Regions, matchups and who won games are not part of the grade.

Where my seeds differed

16 of 68 teams. Missed selections first, then the largest seed errors. "Too high" means I seeded a team better than the committee did.

Teams where my seed differed from the committee's, 2026
TeamMy seedCommittee seedDifferencePoints
Utah State 7 9 Two seeds too high 3
Vanderbilt 3 5 Two seeds too high 3
Clemson 7 8 One seed too high 4
Georgia 9 8 One seed too low 4
Kansas 5 4 One seed too low 4
McNeese 11 12 One seed too high 4
Miami (OH) 10 11 One seed too high 4
Missouri 11 10 One seed too low 4
NC State 10 11 One seed too high 4
North Dakota State 13 14 One seed too high 4
Saint Mary's 8 7 One seed too low 4
Santa Clara 11 10 One seed too low 4
South Florida 12 11 One seed too low 4
Troy 14 13 One seed too low 4
UCLA 8 7 One seed too low 4
Virginia 4 3 One seed too low 4

Every team

The committee's 68-team field in seed order, with the seed I gave each team.

Every team in the 2026 committee field, my seed against the committee's
TeamMy seedCommittee seedDifferencePoints
Arizona 1 1 Exact 6
Duke 1 1 Exact 6
Florida 1 1 Exact 6
Michigan 1 1 Exact 6
Houston 2 2 Exact 6
Iowa State 2 2 Exact 6
Purdue 2 2 Exact 6
UConn 2 2 Exact 6
Gonzaga 3 3 Exact 6
Illinois 3 3 Exact 6
Michigan State 3 3 Exact 6
Virginia 4 3 One seed too low 4
Alabama 4 4 Exact 6
Arkansas 4 4 Exact 6
Kansas 5 4 One seed too low 4
Nebraska 4 4 Exact 6
St. John's 5 5 Exact 6
Texas Tech 5 5 Exact 6
Vanderbilt 3 5 Two seeds too high 3
Wisconsin 5 5 Exact 6
BYU 6 6 Exact 6
Louisville 6 6 Exact 6
North Carolina 6 6 Exact 6
Tennessee 6 6 Exact 6
Kentucky 7 7 Exact 6
Miami (FL) 7 7 Exact 6
Saint Mary's 8 7 One seed too low 4
UCLA 8 7 One seed too low 4
Clemson 7 8 One seed too high 4
Georgia 9 8 One seed too low 4
Ohio State 8 8 Exact 6
Villanova 8 8 Exact 6
Iowa 9 9 Exact 6
Saint Louis 9 9 Exact 6
TCU 9 9 Exact 6
Utah State 7 9 Two seeds too high 3
Missouri 11 10 One seed too low 4
Santa Clara 11 10 One seed too low 4
Texas A&M 10 10 Exact 6
UCF 10 10 Exact 6
Miami (OH) 10 11 One seed too high 4
NC State 10 11 One seed too high 4
SMU 11 11 Exact 6
South Florida 12 11 One seed too low 4
Texas 11 11 Exact 6
VCU 11 11 Exact 6
Akron 12 12 Exact 6
High Point 12 12 Exact 6
McNeese 11 12 One seed too high 4
Northern Iowa 12 12 Exact 6
California Baptist 13 13 Exact 6
Hawai'i 13 13 Exact 6
Hofstra 13 13 Exact 6
Troy 14 13 One seed too low 4
Kennesaw State 14 14 Exact 6
North Dakota State 13 14 One seed too high 4
Penn 14 14 Exact 6
Wright State 14 14 Exact 6
Furman 15 15 Exact 6
Idaho 15 15 Exact 6
Queens 15 15 Exact 6
Tennessee State 15 15 Exact 6
Howard 16 16 Exact 6
Lehigh 16 16 Exact 6
Long Island 16 16 Exact 6
Prairie View A&M 16 16 Exact 6
Siena 16 16 Exact 6
UMBC 16 16 Exact 6

Picked, but not selected

None. All 68 teams I picked were in the committee's field.

Sources

  • Final 2026 bracket, archived by Bracket Matrix. Original publication time not recorded.
  • I ran as The Round Robin that year, listed on Bracket Matrix as TRR.
  • Committee seeds come from the same Bracket Matrix page. Its announcement time is not recorded there either.
  • Imported to this site on August 21, 2026. That is when I copied the record, not when I published the bracket.
  • Source: www.bracketmatrix.com/index.html