The SEC may always be viewed as a football conference, but it’s out to prove its mettle on the hardwood in the 2023 NCAA Tournament bracket. No conference landed more March Madness 2023 teams than the SEC’s eight, with Alabama earning the top overall seed. No. 4 Tennessee is the only other top-four seed from the conference, while No. 6 Kentucky is in the same East Regional, which could set up a matchup between the two in the 2023 March Madness bracket with a 2023 Final Four bid on the line.
In the West Region of the 2023 NCAA basketball tournament bracket, Arkansas is the region’s lone SEC team, as the Razorbacks are coming off back-to-back Elite Eight appearances. They’ll try to advance one round further in the NCAA Tournament bracket 2023, but are part of a brutal region also featuring Kansas, UCLA and Gonzaga. Before filling out your NCAA Tournament bracket 2023, be sure to see the 2023 March Madness bracket picks from the proven computer model at SportsLine.
The SportsLine Projection Model simulated the entire 2023 NCAA Tournament 10,000 times. It has absolutely crushed its March Madness picks, beating over 92% of all CBS Sports brackets two of the last four tournaments. The model also nailed three teams in the West and South Region Sweet 16 last year, including No. 5 seed Houston.
It knows how to spot an upset as well. The same model has produced brackets that have nailed 18 first-round upsets by double-digit seeds. It also nailed some massive upsets two years ago, including predicting the championship game between Gonzaga and Baylor and hitting Houston’s Midwest Region win even though the Cougars weren’t the No. 1 seed.
There’s no reason to rely on luck when there’s proven technology to help you dominate your 2023 March Madness picks. Now, with the 2023 NCAA bracket revealed, the model is simulating the matchups and its results are in. You can only see it over at SportsLine.
Three 2023 March Madness bracket games to watch
One of the East Region picks from the model: No. 1 Purdue survives and advances to the Final Four despite a stacked region. No team spent more weeks ranked No. 1 in the country than Purdue’s seven and the Boilermakers collected impressive wins over Gonzaga and Duke before winning the Big Ten Tournament.
The Boilermakers have arguably the best player in college basketball, Zach Edey (22.3 points, 12.8 rebounds), who is coming off back-to-back games with 30-plus points. Additionally, Purdue went 7-0 in neutral-site games this season, and the team won’t be caught off-guard by a lower seed after it fell to No. 15 Saint Peter’s a year ago.
One surprise in the East Region: No. 4 Tennessee makes the Sweet 16 despite losing star point guard Zakai Zeigler (knee) for the year. Zeigler’s loss hurts, but the Vols were just 9-6 when he started compared to 13-2 when he didn’t, so Tennessee has the depth to overcome his absence.
Tennessee has the No. 2 defense in KenPom’s ratings and held opponents to just 36.9% shooting this season, also second-best in the country. With a top-50 offense that keeps the Vols from being one-dimensional, the model has Tennessee reaching the Sweet 16. You can see the model’s 2023 NCAA bracket picks here.
How to make 2023 NCAA bracket predictions
Who wins every tournament-defining matchup? And which teams will make surprising runs through the 2023 NCAA Tournament bracket? With the model’s track record of calling bracket-busting upsets, you’ll want to see which stunners it’s calling this year before locking in any 2023 NCAA bracket picks.
So what’s the optimal NCAA Tournament 2023 bracket? And which NCAA Tournament Cinderella teams will shock college basketball? Visit SportsLine now to see which double-digit seeds you can back with confidence, all from the model that’s called 18 upsets by double-digit seeds and beaten over 92% of CBS Sports brackets two of the last four tournaments.
