PiRate Ratings Bracketology

Date	1/9/2023
Seed	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team
1	Kansas	Houston	Purdue	Tennessee
2	Connecticut	Alabama	UCLA	Arizona
3	Texas	Gonzaga	Arkansas	Virginia
4	Kansas St.	Xavier	Ohio St.	Miami (Fla)
5	Duke	Iowa St.	Baylor	San Diego St.
6	Indiana	Marquette	TCU	West Virginia
7	Missouri	North Carolina	Rutgers	Providence
8	Wisconsin	Saint Mary’s	Auburn	Illinois
9	Virginia Tech	Michigan St.	Florida Atlantic	Memphis
10	New Mexico	Mississippi St.	Maryland	Kentucky
11	Utah St.	North Carolina St.	Utah	Arizona St.	Pittsburgh	Northwestern
12	Charleston	Kent St.	Dayton	Utah Valley
13	Southern Miss.	Iona	Indiana St.	Oral Roberts
14	Liberty	UC-Irvine	Princeton	UMass Lowell
15	Colgate	UNC Greensboro	Longwood	Eastern Washington
16	SIU Edwardsville	Youngstown St.	Southern	Texas A&M-CC	Norfolk St.	Fairleigh Dickinson

Last 4 Byes: Maryland, Kentucky, Utah St., Arizona St.

Last 4 In: Utah, Arizona St., Pittsburgh, Northwestern

First 4 Out: Creighton, Clemson, Oklahoma, Penn St.

Next 4 Out: Boise St., Oklahoma St., Wake Forest, Iowa

Teams With National Champion Resumes: Kansas, Connecticut, Houston, UCLA, Alabama

Top Pretender Resumes: Tennessee, Saint Mary’s, Texas, Arkansas, Arizona, Ohio St.

Top Dark Horse Final Four Quality: Florida Atlantic, Iona, Charleston, Nevada

PiRate Ratings Bracketology

Date	1/6/2023
Seed	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team
1	Kansas	Purdue	Houston	Arizona
2	Tennessee	Alabama	UCLA	Connecticut
3	Texas	Arkansas	Gonzaga	Virginia
4	Baylor	Xavier	Ohio St.	Duke
5	Iowa St.	Kansas St.	Indiana	Miami (Fla)
6	Wisconsin	TCU	San Diego St.	West Virginia
7	North Carolina	Marquette	Rutgers	Missouri
8	Kentucky	Providence	Virginia Tech	Auburn
9	New Mexico	Saint Mary’s	Illinois	Creighton
10	Memphis	Michigan St.	Utah	Florida Atlantic
11	Charleston	Maryland	Pittsburgh	North Carolina St.	Mississippi St.	Arizona St.
12	Iona	Kent St.	Dayton	Utah St.
13	Yale	Oral Roberts	Liberty	Grand Canyon
14	U Mass Lowell	Bradley	Georgia Southern	UC-Irvine
15	Furman	Colgate	Montana St.	Youngstown St.
16	SIU Edwardsville	Longwood	Grambling	Texas A&M CC	Norfolk St.	Fairleigh Dickinson

Last Four Byes: Memphis, Michigan St., Utah, Maryland

Last Four In: Pittsburgh, North Carolina St., Mississippi St., Arizona St.

First Four Out: Oklahoma St., Penn St., Texas Tech, LSU

Next Four Out: Northwestern, Clemson, Oklahoma, Wake Forest

PiRate Ratings Bracketology

Date	1/2/2023
Seed	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team
1	Purdue	Houston	Connecticut	Kansas
2	Tennessee	Arizona	Alabama	UCLA
3	Texas	Virginia	Gonzaga	Arkansas
4	Duke	Baylor	Indiana	West Virginia
5	Ohio St.	Miami (Fla.)	Xavier	Wisconsin
6	Auburn	Kentucky	North Carolina	Iowa St.
7	San Diego St.	Virginia Tech	Illinois	Mississippi St.
8	Maryland	Marquette	Saint Mary’s	Missouri
9	New Mexico	Memphis	TCU	Kansas St.
10	Creighton	Texas Tech	Utah	Florida Atlantic
11	Penn St.	Utah St.	Oklahoma	Michigan St.	Rutgers	Arizona St.
12	Charleston	Kent St.	Iona	Dayton
13	James Madison	Indiana St.	UC-Irvine	Oral Roberts
14	UMass Lowell	Liberty	Princeton	Colgate
15	Utah Valley	UNC Greensboro	Northern Kentucky	Eastern Washington
16	Longwood	SIU Edwardsville	Grambling	Texas A&M CC	Norfolk St.	St. Francis PA

Last Four Byes: Texas Tech, Utah, Penn St., Utah St.

Last Four In: Oklahoma, Michigan St., Rutgers, Arizona St.

First Four Out: Oklahoma St., Iowa, UAB, North Carolina St.

Next Four Out: Providence, Wake Forest, Northwestern, LSU

PiRate Ratings College Basketball Bracketology

Date	12/27/2022
Seed	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team
1	Connecticut	Purdue	Houston	Tennessee
2	Kansas	UCLA	Arizona	Alabama
3	Arkansas	Gonzaga	West Virginia	Texas
4	Virginia	Duke	Ohio St.	Baylor
5	Wisconsin	Virginia Tech	Indiana	Kentucky
6	Memphis	Auburn	Illinois	Maryland
7	Xavier	North Carolina	San Diego St.	Mississippi St.
8	Miami	Marquette	New Mexico	Iowa St.
9	Saint Mary’s	Arizona St.	Penn St.	Michigan St.
10	Iowa	Texas Tech	TCU	Kansas St.
11	Rutgers	Florida Atlantic	Creighton	Missouri	Oklahoma	Utah
12	Sam Houston	Kent St.	Yale	Charleston
13	Oral Roberts	Iona	Bradley	James Madison
14	Liberty	UMass-Lowell	Dayton	UC-Irvine
15	SIU-Edwardsville	Purdue-Ft. Wayne	Montana St.	Furman
16	Longwood	Grambling	Colgate	Norfolk St.	Nicholls St.	Wagner

Last Four In: Creighton, Missouri, Oklahoma, Utah

Last Four Byes: Texas Tech, TCU, Kansas St., Rutgers

First 4, 16-seeds: Colgate, Norfolk St., Nicholls St., Wagner

First Four Out: Utah St., St. John’s, Northwestern, Oklahoma St.

Next Four Out: UNLV, UAB, North Carolina St., LSU

PiRate Ratings College Basketball–Wednesday, March 16, 2022

Wednesday, March 16, 2022
Team	Team	Spread
Wright St.	Bryant	0.7
Rutgers	Notre Dame	-1.6
Wake Forest	Towson	7.0
Toledo	Dayton	0.3
Virginia	Mississippi St.	-0.1
SMU	Nicholls St.	14.6
Saint Louis	Northern Iowa	5.1
BYU	Long Beach St.	11.8
Florida	Iona	7.1
Coastal Carolina	Maryland Eastern Shore	12.5
Youngstown St.	Morgan St.	5.5
South Alabama	Southeast Louisiana	10.7
Florida Gulf Coast	Detroit	3.6
Maryland Baltimore Co.	Merrimack	5.5
Southern Utah	Kent St.	1.6

PiRate Ratings College Basketball–Tuesday, March 15, 2022

Tuesday, March 15, 2022
Team	Team	Spread
Texas Southern	Texas A&M–CC	3.9
Wyoming	Indiana	-4.6
VCU	Princeton	7.3
Vanderbilt	Belmont	2.4
Oklahoma	Missouri St.	5.7
North Texas	Texas St.	8.1
Xavier	Cleveland St.	13.7
Texas A&M	Alcorn St.	19.1
Utah St.	Oregon	3.4
Washington St.	Santa Clara	4.3
Colorado	St. Bonaventure	4.4
Appalachian St.	USC Upstate	10.2
UTEP	Western Illinois	6.6

Coming Around 4 PM EDT–Bracketnomics 2022, The Analysis to help you pick your brackets

PiRate Ratings FINAL Bracketology 2022

Date	FINAL
Seed	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team
1	Gonzaga	Arizona	Kansas	Baylor
2	Kentucky	Auburn	Duke	Villanova
3	Tennessee	Purdue	Texas Tech	Wisconsin
4	UCLA	Illinois	Arkansas	Iowa
5	Connecticut	Houston	Providence	Saint Mary’s
6	Texas	LSU	Alabama	Colorado St.
7	Michigan St.	Ohio St.	Boise St.	USC
8	TCU	North Carolina	Seton Hall	San Diego St.
9	Murray St.	Memphis	Creighton	Marquette
10	San Francisco	Iowa St.	Loyola (Chi.)	Virginia Tech
11	Miami (Fla.)	Davidson	Richmond	Indiana
12	South Dakota St.	UAB	Notre Dame	Wyoming	Texas A&M	Michigan
13	Vermont	Chattanooga	New Mexico St.	Akron
14	Montana St.	Delaware	Saint Peter’s	Cal St. Fullerton
15	Yale	Longwood	Georgia St.	Colgate
16	Jacksonville St.	Norfolk St.	Wright St.	Bryant	Texas Southern	Texas A&M-CC

First 4 #16 Seeds: Wright St., Bryant, Texas Southern, Texas A&M–CC

Last 4 Byes: Iowa St., Miami (Fla.), Davidson, Indiana

Last 4 In: Notre Dame, Wyoming, Texas A&M, Michigan

First 4 Out: SMU, Xavier, Rutgers, Wake Forest,

Next 4 Out: BYU, VCU, Oklahoma, Saint Louis

PiRate Ratings Bracketology

Date	3/7/2022
Seed	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team
1	Arizona	Gonzaga	Baylor	Auburn
2	Kansas	Kentucky	Duke	Purdue
3	Wisconsin	Villanova	Tennessee	Texas Tech
4	Illinois	Providence	UCLA	Arkansas
5	Connecticut	Houston	Texas	Alabama
6	Saint Mary’s	LSU	Iowa	Ohio St.
7	Colorado St.	USC	Boise St.	Seton Hall
8	Michigan St.	Iowa St.	Murray St.	Marquette
9	North Carolina	San Diego St.	TCU	San Francisco
10	Creighton	Michigan	Loyola (Chi.)	Davidson
11	Miami (Fla.)	Memphis	Xavier	Notre Dame
12	South Dakota St.	North Texas	Wake Forest	Wyoming	Rutgers	SMU
13	Iona	Toledo	Chattanooga	Vermont
14	New Mexico St.	Princeton	Towson	Montana St.
15	Long Beach St.	Longwood	Jacksonville St.	Colgate
16	Georgia St.	Purdue Ft. Wayne	Bryant	Nicholls St.	Norfolk St.	Texas Southern

Last 4 Byes

Miami (Fla.)

Memphis

Xavier

Notre Dame

Last Four In

Wake Forest

Wyoming

Rutgers

SMU

First Four Out

VCU

Indiana

BYU

Dayton

Next Four Out

Texas A&M

Florida

Virginia Tech

Saint Louis

PiRate Ratings Bracketology

Date	2/28/2022
Seed	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team
1	Arizona	Gonzaga	Baylor	Kansas
2	Auburn	Duke	Kentucky	Purdue
3	Texas Tech	Villanova	Wisconsin	Tennessee
4	Providence	Illinois	Connecticut	UCLA
5	Texas	Arkansas	Ohio St.	Alabama
6	Houston	Saint Mary’s	USC	Michigan St.
7	LSU	Marquette	Iowa	Iowa St.
8	Colorado St.	Boise St.	Seton Hall	Murray St.
9	Wyoming	TCU	Notre Dame	Xavier
10	Creighton	San Francisco	Wake Forest	Davidson
11	North Texas	North Carolina	San Diego St.	Miami (Fla.)
12	Iona	South Dakota St.	Indiana	Memphis	Michigan	SMU
13	Chattanooga	New Mexico St.	Toledo	Vermont
14	Towson	Texas St.	Princeton	Northern Iowa
15	Jacksonville St.	Montana St.	Long Beach St.	Longwood
16	Colgate	Purdue Ft. Wayne	Bryant	Nicholls St.	Norfolk St.	Texas Southern

Best of the Rest

69	Loyola (Chi.)
70	BYU
71	Rutgers
72	Florida
73	VCU
74	Virginia Tech
75	Oregon
76	St. Bonaventure
77	Dayton
78	Oklahoma
79	Mississippi St.
80	Belmont

PiRate Ratings Bracketology

Date	2/25/2022
Seed	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team
1	Gonzaga	Arizona	Kansas	Auburn
2	Kentucky	Baylor	Purdue	Duke
3	Texas Tech	Villanova	Tennessee	Wisconsin
4	Illinois	UCLA	Providence	Texas
5	Ohio St.	Connecticut	Alabama	Houston
6	Arkansas	LSU	USC	Marquette
7	Iowa	Michigan St.	Iowa St.	Saint Mary’s
8	Colorado St.	Boise St.	Xavier	Murray St.
9	Seton Hall	Wyoming	Creighton	TCU
10	Miami (Fla.)	Michigan	San Francisco	Wake Forest
11	Notre Dame	Davidson	Loyola (Chi.)	North Carolina
12	North Texas	Iona	San Diego St.	Memphis	Rutgers	Indiana
13	Chattanooga	South Dakota St.	New Mexico St.	Vermont
14	Toledo	Wagner	Towson	Montana St.
15	Princeton	Texas St.	Long Beach St.	Jacksonville St.
16	Cleveland St.	Longwood	Colgate	Nicholls St.	Norfolk St.	Texas Southern

Best of the Rest

69	SMU
70	BYU
71	VCU
72	Oregon
73	Dayton
74	Florida
75	Virginia
76	St. Bonaventure
77	UAB
78	Virginia Tech
79	Belmont
80	Mississippi St.