PiRate Ratings Bracketology

Date	2/13/2023
Seed	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team
1	Alabama	Houston	Purdue	Kansas
2	Texas	Arizona	UCLA	Baylor
3	Tennessee	Xavier	Virginia	Marquette
4	Kansas St.	Iowa St.	Connecticut	Gonzaga
5	Indiana	Saint Mary’s	TCU	Miami (Fla)
6	San Diego St.	Illinois	Creighton	Rutgers
7	Missouri	Duke	Michigan St.	Iowa
8	Maryland	Providence	North Carolina St.	Auburn
9	West Virginia	Northwestern	Florida Atlantic	Arkansas
10	Boise St.	Oklahoma St.	Nevada	Pittsburgh
11	North Carolina	New Mexico	Memphis	USC	Texas A&M	Mississippi St.
12	Charleston	Oral Roberts	Southern Miss.	Liberty
13	VCU	Toledo	Drake	Utah Valley
14	UCSB	Yale	Furman	Colgate
15	Rider	E. Washington	Vermont	Youngstown St.
16	UNC Asheville	Northwestern St.	Morehead St.	Alcorn St.	Howard	Fairleigh Dickinson

Last 4 Byes: Nevada, Pittsburgh, North Carolina, Pittsburgh

Last 4 In: Memphis, USC, Texas A&M, Mississippi St.

First 4 Out: Kentucky, Wisconsin, Utah St., Oregon

Next 4 Out: Virginia Tech, Seton Hall, Arizona St., Wake Forest

PiRate Ratings Bracketology

Date	2/10/2023
Seed	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team
1	Purdue	Alabama	Houston	Kansas
2	Arizona	Tennessee	Texas	UCLA
3	Baylor	Xavier	Kansas St.	Iowa St.
4	Marquette	Connecticut	Virginia	Gonzaga
5	TCU	Indiana	Saint Mary’s	Miami (Fla.)
6	San Diego St.	Rutgers	Illinois	Creighton
7	Duke	Providence	Auburn	Iowa
8	West Virginia	Florida Atlanta	Maryland	Arkansas
9	Missouri	Michigan St.	North Carolina St.	Boise St.
10	Nevada	New Mexico	Oklahoma St.	Northwestern
11	Pittsburgh	North Carolina	Memphis	USC	Kentucky	Clemson
12	Charleston	Oral Roberts	Liberty	Southern Miss.
13	VCU	Akron	Drake	Utah Valley
14	UC Santa Barbara	Princeton	Furman	Colgate
15	Rider	E. Washington	Vermont	Youngstown St.
16	UNC Asheville	Texas A&M-CC	MD Eastern Shore	Morehead St.	Alcorn St.	Fairleigh Dickinson

Last 4 Byes: Oklahoma St., Northwestern, Pittsburgh, North Carolina

Last 4 In: Memphis, USC, Kentucky, Clemson

First 4 Out: Texas A&M, Wisconsin, Oregon, Utah St.

Next 4 Out: Mississippi St., Florida, Seton Hall, Arizona St.

PiRate Ratings Bracketology

Date	2/6/2023
Seed	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team
1	Houston	Alabama	Purdue	Texas
2	Tennessee	Kansas	Arizona	UCLA
3	Baylor	Xavier	Iowa St.	Marquette
4	Kansas St.	Connecticut	Virginia	Saint Mary’s
5	Gonzaga	TCU	Indiana	Rutgers
6	San Diego St.	Miami (Fla)	Illinois	Duke
7	Creighton	Providence	Auburn	Iowa
8	Florida Atlantic	Maryland	New Mexico	West Virginia
9	Missouri	North Carolina St.	Arkansas	USC
10	Boise St.	Michigan St.	Nevada	Kentucky
11	Oklahoma St.	North Carolina	Northwestern	Memphis	Pittsburgh	Clemson
12	Oral Roberts	Liberty	Southern Miss.	VCU
13	Hofstra	Utah Valley	Drake	Akron
14	UC Santa Barbara	Princeton	Furman	Colgate
15	Rider	E. Washington	Youngstown St.	Vermont
16	Radford	Northwestern St.	Morehead St.	MD Eastern Shore	Southern	Fairleigh Dickinson

Last 4 Byes

Nevada, Kentucky, Oklahoma State, North Carolina

Last 4 In

Northwestern, Memphis, Pittsburgh, Clemson

First 4 Out

Utah St., Seton Hall, Texas A&M, Wisconsin

Next 4 Out

Mississippi St., Florida, Virginia Tech, Oregon

PiRate Ratings Bracketology

Date	1/30/2023
Seed	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team
1	Purdue	Alabama	Tennessee	Houston
2	Kansas	Arizona	UCLA	Arizona
3	Baylor	Kansas St.	Virginia	Iowa St.
4	Marquette	Xavier	TCU	Gonzaga
5	Connecticut	Saint Mary’s	Rutgers	Indiana
6	San Diego St.	Illinois	Providence	Miami (Fla)
7	Auburn	New Mexico	Duke	North Carolina
8	Florida Atlantic	Creighton	Missouri	North Carolina St.
9	Boise St.	Northwestern	Iowa	Michigan St.
10	Memphis	West Virginia	Arkansas	Maryland
11	USC	Clemson	Charleston	Nevada	Penn St.
12	Kent St.	Oral Roberts	Liberty	Kentucky	Pittsburgh
13	Louisiana	Saint Louis	Drake	UCSB
14	Utah Valley	Cornell	Furman	Colgate
15	Siena	Eastern Washington	Youngstown St.	UNC Asheville
16	SE Louisiana	Vermont	UT-Martin	MD Eastern Shore	Southern	Fairleigh Dickinson

Last 4 Byes: Arkansas, Maryland, USC, and Clemson

Last 4 In: Nevada, Penn State, Kentucky, and Pittsburgh

First 4 Out: Texas A&M, Wisconsin, Arizona State, and Utah State

Next 4 Out: Oklahoma, Ohio State, Oklahoma State, and Virginia Tech

PiRate Ratings Bracketology

Date	1/27/2023
Seed	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team
1	Purdue	Alabama	Houston	Tennessee
2	Arizona	Kansas	Texas	UCLA
3	Iowa St.	Kansas St.	Virginia	Xavier
4	Gonzaga	Baylor	TCU	Marquette
5	Connecticut	Auburn	Rutgers	Saint Mary’s
6	Miami (Fla)	San Diego St.	Providence	Indiana
7	Illinois	New Mexico	Duke	Florida Atlantic
8	North Carolina	Michigan St.	Arkansas	North Carolina St.
9	Memphis	Creighton	Boise St.	Clemson
10	Missouri	Iowa	Northwestern	Maryland
11	USC	Nevada	Charleston	Kentucky	Arizona St.
12	Oral Roberts	Kent St.	VCU	Wisconsin	West Virginia
13	Southern Miss.	Liberty	UCSB	Southern Illinois
14	Seattle	Princeton	Colgate	UNC Greensboro
15	E. Washington	Siena	Vermont	UNC Asheville
16	Northern Kentucky	SE Louisiana	Alcorn St.	UM Eastern Shore	UT-Martin	Fairleigh Dickinson

Last 4 Byes: Northwestern, Maryland, USC, Nevada

Last 4 In: Kentucky, Arizona State, Wisconsin, West Virginia

First 4 Out: Texas A&M, Pittsburgh, Ohio State, Utah State

Next 4 Out: Oklahoma State, Penn State, Utah, Virginia Tech

PiRate Ratings Bracketology

Date	1/23/2023
Seed	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team
1	Purdue	Alabama	Kansas	Houston
2	Tennessee	Texas	UCLA	Arizona
3	Kansas St.	Iowa St.	Virginia	Connecticut
4	Gonzaga	TCU	Xavier	Marquette
5	Baylor	Auburn	Rutgers	Miami (Fla)
6	Duke	Saint Mary’s	San Diego St.	Providence
7	North Carolina	Indiana	New Mexico	Illinois
8	North Carolina St.	Arkansas	Florida Atlantic	Michigan St.
9	Iowa	Boise St.	Clemson	Creighton
10	Ohio St.	Missouri	Wisconsin	Charleston
11	Memphis	Northwestern	Arizona St.	West Virginia	Maryland
12	Kent St.	VCU	Oral Roberts	Pittsburgh	Penn St.
13	Louisiana	Liberty	Seattle	Belmont
14	UC Santa Barbara	Siena	Princeton	Colgate
15	Samford	Northern Kentucky	UMass Lowell	Eastern Washington
16	UNC Asheville	UT-Martin	Southern	Nicholls St.	Md. Eastern Shore	St. Francis PA

Last 4 Byes: Wisconsin, Memphis, Northwestern, Arizona St.

Last 4 In: West Virginia, Maryland, Pittsburgh, Penn St.

First 4 Out: USC, Nevada, Utah St., Oklahoma St.

Next 4 Out: Kentucky, Oklahoma, Wake Forest, Virginia Tech

PiRate Ratings Bracketology



Date	1/20/2023
Seed	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team
1	Purdue	Houston	Kansas	Alabama
2	UCLA	Tennessee	Kansas St.	Iowa St.
3	Texas	Arizona	Connecticut	Gonzaga
4	Virginia	Xavier	Marquette	Baylor
5	TCU	Auburn	Miami (Fla)	Rutgers
6	San Diego St.	Duke	Saint Mary’s	Providence
7	North Carolina St.	Arkansas	Illinois	Michigan St.
8	New Mexico	North Carolina	Missouri	Iowa
9	Indiana	Boise St.	Arizona St.	Creighton
10	Florida Atlantic	Clemson	Wisconsin	West Virginia
11	Charleston	Pittsburgh	Memphis	Maryland	Northwestern
12	Kent St.	Oral Roberts	Dayton	Ohio St.	Penn St.
13	Seattle	Marshall	Southern Illinois	Iona
14	Liberty	UC Santa Barbara	Cornell	Colgate
15	UMass Lowell	Samford	Youngstown St.	Eastern Washington
16	Longwood	SIU Edwardsville	Southern	Texas A&M-CC	Morgan St.	Fairleigh Dickinson

Last 4 Byes: Wisconsin, West Virginia, Pittsburgh, Memphis

Last 4 In: Maryland, Northwestern, Ohio St., Penn St.

First 4 Out: Utah St., Oklahoma, Wake Forest, Texas A&M

Next 4 Out: Nevada, Central Florida, USC, Seton Hall

Note: The last 4 teams in the field this week are all Big Ten teams. These would be First Four teams playing in Dayton, but the NCAA Selection Committee will not put four Big Ten teams in this round.

PiRate Ratings Bracketology

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

Last 4 Byes: Creighton, Memphis, Maryland, Pittsburgh

Last 4 In: Boise St., Penn St., Northwestern, West Virginia

First 4 Out: Nevada, Mississippi St., Oklahoma, Virginia Tech

Next 4 Out: Utah St., Wake Forest, Kentucky, USC

Note: The predictions made in PiRate Ratings Bracketology are our opinions on what we believe the NCAA Selection Committee will choose based on the criteria they have at their disposal.

PiRate Ratings Bracketology

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

Last 4 Byes: Clemson, Creighton, Utah St., Penn St.

Last 4 In: Iowa, Indiana, Memphis, Mississippi St.

First 4 Out: Virginia Tech, Boise St., Pittsburgh, Central Florida

Next 4 Out: Nevada, Wake Forest, Kentucky, Oklahoma St.

PiRate Ratings Bracketology–Friday, December 30, 2022

Date	12/30/2022
Seed	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team
1	Connecticut	Purdue	Houston	Tennessee
2	Kansas	Arizona	UCLA	Alabama
3	Baylor	Gonzaga	Virginia	Texas
4	West Virginia	Duke	Wisconsin	Indiana
5	Arkansas	Miami (Fla.)	Ohio St.	Xavier
6	Maryland	Auburn	Virginia Tech	Marquette
7	North Carolina	San Diego St.	MIssouri	Illinois
8	New Mexico	Mississippi St.	Kentucky	TCU
9	Memphis	Texas Tech	North Carolina St.	Kansas St.
10	Creighton	Penn St.	Arizona St.	Iowa St.
11	Michigan St.	UAB	Oklahoma	Florida Atlantic	Saint Mary’s	Rutgers
12	Charleston	Kent St.	Iona	Dayton
13	Indiana St.	Yale	UC-Irvine	Oral Roberts
14	James Madison	UMass Lowell	Liberty	Furman
15	Grand Canyon	Youngstown St.	Montana St.	Colgate
16	Northwestern St.	Longwood	Grambling	SIU-Edwardsville	Norfolk St.	Wagner

Last 4 Byes: Penn St., Arizona St., Iowa St., Michigan St.,

Last 4 In: Oklahoma, Florida Atlantic, Saint Mary’s, Rutgers

#16-Seeds in First Four: Grambling, SIUE, Norfolk St., Wagner

Top Dozen Waiting In The Wings (alphabetically)

Boise St.

Colorado

LSU

Northwestern

Oklahoma St.

Pittsburgh

Providence

St. John’s

UNLV

USC

Utah

Utah St.