March Madness 2024: Our experts reset their NCAA Tournament bracket picks with updated Sweet 16 predictions

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Every single No. 1 and No. 2 seed advanced to the Sweet 16 for the fifth time since the tournament expanded to 64 teams and first time since the 2019 NCAA Tournament. But you know what? Brackets being busted happens to the best of us. Even in a relatively chalky year.

So we’re giving ourselves one more bite at the apple with a fresh bracket with the field now down to 16. Our panel of college basketball experts and analysts didn’t make every pick right — who had NC State and Clemson making the second weekend?! — but we’re bound to nail it this time. (Right?)

The good news is that with so many favorites advancing, most of our title picks are still alive and in the hunt, so there’s not many changes as far as how we see the final few games playing out. There are, though, numerous changes to the bracket elsewhere now that several teams we didn’t pick to be in the second weekend, made the second weekend.

Who will win every college basketball game, and which favorites should be on upset alert? Visit SportsLine now to get picks and predictions for every college basketball game, all from a model that simulates every game 10,000 times.

Here’s a look at how our experts see the regional action unfolding as we close in on the Sweet 16.   

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Gary Parrish, college basketball insider

Original pick for champion: Purdue

My original Final Four picks featured Purdue, UConn and Houston. They’re all still alive. So I’ll keep them — even if Kelvin Sampson’s Cougars have seemed unusually vulnerable in recent weeks. Baylor was my initial Final Four pick in the West Region. But I lost the Bears to Clemson and have replaced them with North Carolina. Yes, that means I now have four No. 1 seeds in the Final Four. Will it happen? Who knows? But in a season where three of the No. 1 seeds so clearly separated from the rest of the pack weeks in advance of Selection Sunday, it would be kind…

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Author : Kyle Boone

Publish date : 2024-03-26 22:19:32

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