Men's NCAA Tournament bracket is out!

Mar 03, 2025
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Here's who's going where when the NCAA Tournament starts on Friday. Because of NPI, we already knew the 64 teams who were playing, but we also knew that someone was flying out of Southern California. 

It's the destination that's interesting.

How about Claremont-Mudd-Scripps getting on a plane to head to Ramapo to play Ramapo in northern New Jersey? That's a pod of four teams where Drew is the highest seed, but chose not to put in their paperwork to host because of facilities conflicts.

Franklin & Marshall is also an unexpected host, the benefit of Randolph-Macon not being able to play men's games at home this weekend. In odd numbered years, the women's teams have priority on hosting in the first weekend, and the Randolph-Macon women clearly will be hosting. Similarly, York (Pa.) will be hosting a pod because NYU cannot, and Chicago will be hosting a pod instead of Illinois Wesleyan. Chicago is hosting because the school is within 500 miles of all three schools, where St. John's is not.

Why Redlands against St. Joseph's (Maine), however? Two very similar teams -- literally the No. 26 and No. 27 overall seeds in the NPI. Ryan Scott would have fixed this bracket this way:

Keene vs. Catholic at Trinity
Hamilton vs. Clark at Montclair
St. Joe's vs. Western New England at Tufts
Redlands at TCNJ
Franklin & Marshall vs. Pitt-Bradford at Hampden-Sydney
Swap Neumann and Bryn Athyn
If the host can accommodate, Yeshiva for Utica.

The full list of seedings from 1-64, via the NPI.

Rank Team Conf NPI   C Seed
1 Wesleyan NESCAC 73.803 C 1 1
2 New York University UAA 72.927 A - 2
3 UW-Platteville WIAC 71.963 A - 3
4 Trinity (Conn.) NESCAC 69.97 A - 4
5 Emory UAA 66.878 C 2 5
6 UW-La Crosse WIAC 66.278 C 3 6
7 Randolph-Macon ODAC 65.617 C 4 7
8 Tufts NESCAC 65.259 C 5 8
9 Illinois Wesleyan CCIW 65.051 A - 9
10 Drew LAND 64.649 A - 10
11 Hampden-Sydney ODAC 64.411 C 6 11
12 Christopher Newport C2C 64.024 C 7 12
13 Montclair State NJAC 63.99 A - 13
14 WPI NEWMAC 63.781 C 8 14
15 St. Thomas (Texas) SCAC 63.774 A - 15
16 Hamilton NESCAC 63.541 C 9 16
17 Washington U. UAA 63.339 C 10 17
18 Ramapo NJAC 62.973 C 11 18
19 St. Johns MIAC 62.706 A - 19
20 Denison NCAC 62.621 A - 20
21 Franklin and Marshall CC 62.572 A - 21
22 Roanoke ODAC 62.287 C 12 22
23 Carthage CCIW 62.286 C 13 23
24 Stockton NJAC 62.283 C 14 24
25 Guilford ODAC 62.262 A - 25
26 Redlands SCIAC 62.127 C 15 26
27 St. Joseph's (Maine) GNAC 61.906 A - 27
28 Wisconsin Lutheran NACC 61.758 C 16 28
29 Cal Lutheran SCIAC 61.753 C 17 29
30 TCNJ NJAC 61.682 C 18 30
31 Calvin MIAA 61.614 A - 31
32 Keene State LEC 61.537 A - 32
33 John Carroll OAC 61.427 A - 33
34 Chicago UAA 61.282 C 19 34
35 Catholic LAND 61.16 C 20 35
36 Chatham PAC 60.728 A - 36
37 Gettysburg CC 60.483 C 21 37
40 York (Pa.) MACC 59.813 A - 38
46 Pitt-Bradford AMCC 59.398 A - 39
47 Western New England CNE 59.374 A - 40
49 St. Norbert NACC 59.189 A - 41
51 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps SCIAC 58.955 A - 42
57 Franklin HCAC 58.616 A - 43
62 Clark NEWMAC 57.878 A - 44
63 Ithaca LL 57.831 A - 45
74 Hardin-Simmons ASC 56.885 A - 46
82 Huntingdon CCS 56.566 A - 47
89 Mary Washington C2C 56.137 A - 48
90 Husson NAC 56.09 A - 49
96 Central ARC 55.819 A - 50
99 Utica E8 55.7 A - 51
103 Yeshiva SKY 55.478 A - 52
105 Berry SAA 55.443 A - 53
109 Pfeiffer USAC 55.376 A - 54
116 Grinnell MWC 54.832 A - 55
123 Westfield State MASCAC 54.305 A - 56
129 Neumann AEC 54.008 A - 57
142 Greenville SLIAC 53.345 A - 58
148 Cortland SUNYAC 53.178 A - 59
150 John Jay CUNYAC 53.138 A - 60
158 Bryn Athyn UEC 52.907 A - 61
163 Lewis and Clark NWC 52.701 A - 62
170 Delaware Valley MACF 52.383 A - 63
236 Bethany Lutheran UMAC 49.735 A - 64