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Schmolik 64 Update (1/13/23)

Hello, college basketball/Big Ten fans!

Welcome to an all new season of college basketball bracketology with yours truly, Schmolik. Many of you at Off Tackle Empire might know me by my annual College Football Playoff projections. However, I tend to me more of a college basketball fan and have been doing college basketball bracketology for years. I've been doing it for so long that when I started there were only 64 teams in the NCAA field. So just like the Big "Ten", I've stuck with my predictions being the Schmolik "64". Each season, I normally do frequent updates throughout the regular season with a final bracket after the Big Ten Championship Game and before the actual bracket is unveiled. This was my final bracket last season. For the last few years I have posted these at BTPowerhouse but thought this site could get more traffic.

Here is the first Schmolik 64 bracket for the 2023 season!

Midwest Regional Kansas City
Fri/Sun March 24-26
Des Moines 1 Kansas 15-1
Thur/Sat March 16-18 16
8 Florida Atlantic 13-1
9 Michigan State 12-4
Columbus 5 St. Mary's 14-4
Fri/Sun March 17-19 12 Kent State 11-3
4 Xavier 14-3
13 Oral Roberts 14-3
Sacramento 6 Baylor 11-5
Thur/Sat March 16-18 11 Dayton 12-5
3 Arizona 15-2
14 Stetson 8-6
Albany 7 Maryland 11-5
Fri/Sun March 17-19 10 West Virginia 10-6
2 Connecticut 15-3
15 U Mass Lowell 13-3
South Regional Louisville
Fri/Sun March 24-26
Birmingham 1 Houston 17-1
Thur/Sat March 16-18 16 Eastern Washington 9-7
8 Northwestern 12-4
9 North Carolina 11-6
Orlando 5 San Diego St 12-3
Thur/Sat March 16-18 12
4 Miami 14-2
13 UC Irvine 9-5
Denver 6 Providence 14-3
Fri/Sun March 17-19 11 Wisconsin 11-4
3 Kansas State 15-1
14 Troy 9-6
Greensboro 7 NC State 13-4
Fri/Sun March 17-19 10 Arizona State 14-3
2 Tennessee 14-2
15 Samford 8-6
East Regional New York
Thur/Sat March 23-25
Birmingham 1 Alabama 14-2
Thur/Sat March 16-18 16 UNC Asheville 10-6
8 Illinois 11-5
9 Boise State 12-4
Greensboro 5 Rutgers 12-5
Fri/Sun March 17-19 12 Utah Valley 11-4
4 Duke 13-4
13 Indiana State 12-5
Denver 6 TCU 13-3
Fri/Sun March 17-19 11 Creighton 9-8
3 Gonzaga 14-3
14 Colgate 10-7
Des Moines 7 Arkansas 12-4
Thur/Sat March 16-18 10 Ohio State 10-6
2 Iowa State 13-2
15 Siena 11-5
West Regional Las Vegas
Thur/Sat March 23-25
Columbus 1 Purdue 15-1
Fri/Sun March 17-19 16
8 Missouri 13-3
9 Nevada 13-4
Albany 5 Virginia 12-3
Fri/Sun March 17-19 12
4 Marquette 14-4
13 Princeton 10-4
Orlando 6 Auburn 13-3
Thur/Sat March 16-18 11 Charleston 16-1
3 Texas 14-2
14 SIU Edwardsville 10-5
Sacramento 7 Iowa 11-6
Thur/Sat March 16-18 10 Clemson 14-3
2 UCLA 15-2
15 Milwaukee 9-5
First Four Games
Dayton MW Texas A&M Corpus Christi 8-5
Tue March 17 16 Fairleigh Dickinson 8-8
Dayton W Norfolk State 6-7
Wed March 18 16 Southern 6-9
Dayton S Utah 12-6
Tue March 17 12 Penn State 12-5
Dayton W Indiana 10-6
Wed March 18 12 Utah State 13-3

Bids By Conference:

Big 10: 11 (Pur, Rut. Md, Iowa. NW, Ill, MSU, OSU, Wisc, Ind, PSU)

Big 12: 7 (Kan, ISU, KSU, Tex, TCU, Bay, WV)

ACC: 6 (Mia, Duke, Va, NCSt, UNC, Clem)

SEC: 5 (Ala, Tenn, Aub, Ark, Mo)

Big East: 5 (Conn, Xav, Marq, Prov, Creig)

Pac 12: 4 (UCLA, Ariz, ASU, Utah)

MWC: 4 (SDSt, Nev, BSU, USU(

WCC: 2 (Gonz, St. M(

One Bid: 22

Highest NET left out: Central Florida (35), Oklahoma (42), Oklahoma State (45), North Texas (46). NET Data courtesy of WarrenNolan.com.

Compare my bracket to other brackets across the internet at the Bracket Matrix.

My goal will be to post a bracket each Friday with more frequent brackets as we get closer to Selection Sunday.

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