PiRate Ratings College Basketball — Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Home	Visitor	Spread
Texas A&M-CC	SE Missouri St.	4.3
Michigan	Toledo	7.2
Rutgers	Hofstra	9.1
UAB	Southern Miss.	7.9
Liberty	Villanova	1.8
Vanderbilt	Yale	2.9
Mississippi St.	Pittsburgh	1.8
Wisconsin	Bradley	4.5
Colorado	Seton Hall	3.3
Washington St.	Eastern Washington	9.7

PiRate Ratings Bracketology

Date	3/9/2023
Seed	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team
1	Alabama	Houston	Kansas	Purdue
2	UCLA	Texas	Baylor	Arizona
3	Kansas St.	Gonzaga	Marquette	Tennessee
4	Connecticut	Xavier	Indiana	Virginia
5	San Diego St.	Miami (Fla)	Saint Mary’s	Iowa St.
6	TCU	Creighton	Kentucky	Texas A&M
7	Duke	Michigan St.	Northwestern	Maryland
8	Illinois	Missouri	Arkansas	Iowa
9	Auburn	West Virginia	Florida Atlantic	Memphis
10	Boise St.	Providence	North Carolina St.	USC
11	Pittsburgh	Mississippi St.	Nevada	Penn St.	Utah St.	Rutgers
12	Oral Roberts	Drake	Charleston	VCU
13	Utah Valley	Toledo	Iona	Yale
14	Louisiana	Furman	UC Santa Barbara	Colgate
15	Kennesaw St.	Vermont	UNC Asheville	Montana St.
16	N. Kentucky	Texas A&M-CC	SE Missouri St.	Grambling	Howard	Fairleigh Dickinson

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Last 4 Byes: North Carolina St. USC, Pittsburgh, Mississippi St.

Last 4 In: Nevada, Penn St., Utah St., Rutgers

First 4 Out: Oklahoma St., North Carolina, Arizona St., Wisconsin

Next 4 Out: Clemson, Oregon, Michigan, North Texas

Note: Vanderbilt replaces Wisconsin in this list, as the Badgers are eliminated from the Bubble, moving Clemson up one notch, and Vanderbilt as the last of the NFO. Technically, UW still has the fourth highest PiRate Bracketology Score not in the field, but they cannot move up after being eliminated by Ohio State in the Big Ten Tournament. The other teams on the Bubble can continue to improve their resumes.

PiRate Ratings College Basketball — Thursday, March 9, 2023

Home	Visitor	Spread
Akron	Buffalo	5.4
Arizona	Stanford	9.0
Auburn	Arkansas	-1.2
Ball St.	Ohio	-1.3
Baylor	Iowa St.	1.9
Boise St.	UNLV	5.3
Cal St. Fullerton	Hawaii	0.1
Central Florida	SMU	9.1
Clemson	North Carolina St.	-1.8
Connecticut	Providence	7.4
Creighton	Villanova	5.7
Dayton	Saint Joseph’s	9.2
Duke	Pittsburgh	3.5
Florida	Mississippi St.	-0.2
Florida Atlantic	Western Kentucky	11.4
Fordham	La Salle	4.0
Illinois	Penn St.	2.6
Iowa	Ohio St.	2.2
Jackson St.	Prairie View	-1.9
Kansas	West Virginia	2.8
Kansas St.	TCU	0.2
Kent St.	Northern Illinois	11.6
Marquette	St. John’s	7.4
Maryland	Minnesota	14.4
Maryland Eastern Shore	Morgan St.	3.0
Miami (Fla)	Wake Forest	4.8
Michigan	Rutgers	-0.4
Middle Tennessee	Charlotte	-0.6
Nevada	San Jose St.	5.6
Norfolk St.	Coppin St.	10.0
North Texas	Louisiana Tech	7.6
Oregon	Washington St.	1.8
Quinnipiac	Marist	6.9
Saint Louis	George Mason	2.9
Sam Houston St.	Cal Baptist	7.0
San Diego St.	Colorado St.	9.1
Seattle	Grand Canyon	-2.0
Siena	Niagara	3.4
South Florida	East Carolina	3.1
Southern	Alabama A&M	3.2
Southern Utah	Utah Tech	4.4
Tennessee	Mississippi	13.7
Texas	Oklahoma St.	5.6
Toledo	Miami (O)	12.7
UAB	Rice	11.6
UC Riverside	UC Davis	0.4
UC Santa Barbara	Cal Poly	10.4
UC-Irvine	Cal St. Bakersfield	11.3
UCLA	Colorado	9.4
USC	Arizona St.	2.3
Utah St.	New Mexico	2.7
Utah Valley	Tarleton St.	6.3
Vanderbilt	LSU	5.0
VCU	Davidson	5.8
Virginia	North Carolina	-0.6
Wichita St.	Tulsa	12.5
Xavier	DePaul	7.7

PiRate Ratings Bracketology

Date	3/8/2023
Seed	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team
1	Alabama	Houston	Kansas	Purdue
2	UCLA	Texas	Baylor	Arizona
3	Marquette	Kansas St.	Tennessee	Gonzaga
4	Connecticut	Xavier	Indiana	Virginia
5	San Diego St.	Miami (Fla)	TCU	Saint Mary’s
6	Iowa St.	Duke	Creighton	Texas A&M
7	Kentucky	Michigan St.	Northwestern	Maryland
8	Illinois	Iowa	Missouri	Arkansas
9	Florida Atlantic	Boise St.	Auburn	Providence
10	Memphis	West Virginia	North Carolina St.	USC
11	Pittsburgh	Rutgers	Mississippi St.	Nevada	Wisconsin	Penn St.
12	Oral Roberts	VCU	Drake	Charleston
13	Utah Valley	Toledo	Iona	Yale
14	Louisiana	Furman	UC Santa Barbara	Colgate
15	Kennesaw St.	Vermont	UNC Asheville	Montana St.
16	N. Kentucky	Texas A&M-CC	SE Missouri St.	Grambling	Howard	Fairleigh Dickinson

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Last 4 Byes: North Carolina St., USC, Pittsburgh, Rutgers

Last 4 In: Mississippi St., Nevada, Wisconsin, Penn St.

First 4 Out: Utah St., Arizona St., Oklahoma St., North Carolina

Next 4 Out: Clemson, Michigan, Oregon, Vanderbilt

PiRate Ratings Bracketology

Date	3/7/2023
Seed	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team
1	Alabama	Houston	Kansas	Purdue
2	UCLA	Texas	Baylor	Arizona
3	Marquette	Kansas St.	Tennessee	Gonzaga
4	Connecticut	Xavier	Indiana	Virginia
5	San Diego St.	Saint Mary’s	Miami (Fla)	TCU
6	Iowa St.	Duke	Creighton	Texas A&M
7	Kentucky	Michigan St.	Northwestern	Maryland
8	Illinois	Iowa	Missouri	Arkansas
9	Florida Atlantic	Boise St.	Auburn	Providence
10	Memphis	West Virginia	North Carolina St.	USC
11	Pittsburgh	Rutgers	Mississippi St.	Nevada	Wisconsin	Penn St.
12	Oral Roberts	VCU	Drake	Charleston
13	Utah Valley	Toledo	Iona	Louisiana
14	Yale	Furman	UC Santa Barbara	Kennesaw St.
15	Colgate	Vermont	UNC Asheville	Montana St.
16	Cleveland St.	Texas A&M-CC	SE Missouri St.	Grambling	Howard	Fairleigh Dickinson

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Last 4 Byes: North Carolina St., USC, Pittsburgh, Rutgers

Last 4 In: Mississippi St., Nevada, Wisconsin, Penn St.

First 4 Out: Utah St., Arizona St., Oklahoma St., North Carolina

Next 4 Out: Clemson, Michigan, Oregon, Vanderbilt

PiRate Ratings Bracketology

Date	3/6/2023
Seed	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team
1	Alabama	Houston	Kansas	Purdue
2	UCLA	Texas	Baylor	Arizona
3	Marquette	Kansas St.	Tennessee	Gonzaga
4	Connecticut	Xavier	Indiana	Virginia
5	San Diego St.	Saint Mary’s	Miami (Fla)	TCU
6	Iowa St.	Duke	Creighton	Texas A&M
7	Kentucky	Michigan St.	Northwestern	Maryland
8	Illinois	Iowa	Missouri	Arkansas
9	Florida Atlantic	Boise St.	Auburn	Providence
10	Memphis	West Virginia	North Carolina St.	USC
11	Pittsburgh	Rutgers	Mississippi St.	Nevada	Wisconsin	Penn St.
12	Oral Roberts	VCU	Drake	Hofstra
13	Utah Valley	Toledo	Iona	Louisiana
14	Yale	Furman	UC Santa Barbara	Kennesaw St.
15	Colgate	Vermont	Montana St.	Youngstown St.
16	UNC Asheville	Texas A&M-CC	SE Missouri St.	Grambling	Howard	Fairleigh Dickinson

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Last 4 Byes: North Carolina St., USC, Pittsburgh, Rutgers

Last 4 In: Mississippi St., Nevada, Wisconsin, Penn St.

First 4 Out: Utah St., Arizona St., Oklahoma St., North Carolina

Next 4 Out: Clemson, Michigan, Oregon, Vanderbilt

PiRate Ratings Bracketology

Date	3/5/2023
Seed	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team
1	Alabama	Houston	Kansas	UCLA
2	Purdue	Texas	Baylor	Arizona
3	Marquette	Kansas St.	Tennessee	Gonzaga
4	Connecticut	Xavier	Indiana	Virginia
5	San Diego St.	Saint Mary’s	Iowa St.	Miami (Fla)
6	TCU	Creighton	Kentucky	Duke
7	Texas A&M	Michigan St.	Iowa	Northwestern
8	Maryland	Missouri	Illinois	Arkansas
9	Florida Atlantic	Boise St.	Auburn	Providence
10	West Virginia	Memphis	USC	Rutgers
11	North Carolina St.	Pittsburgh	Mississippi St.	Nevada	Utah St.	Arizona St.
12	Oral Roberts	Hofstra	VCU	Bradley
13	Kennesaw St.	Utah Valley	Toledo	Iona
14	Louisiana	Yale	UC Santa Barbara	Furman
15	Colgate	E. Washington	Vermont	Youngstown St.
16	UNC Asheville	Grambling	Howard	Texas A&M-CC	SE Missouri St.	Fairleigh-Dickinson

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Last 4 Byes: USC, Rutgers, North Carolina St., Pittsburgh

Last 4 In: Mississippi St., Nevada, Utah St., Arizona St.

First 4 Out: Wisconsin, Oklahoma St., Penn St., North Carolina

Next 4 Out: Clemson, Michigan, Oregon, Vanderbilt

PiRate Ratings College Basketball — Sunday, March 5, 2023

Sunday’s PiRate Ratings Spreads

Home	Visitor	Spread
Bradley	Drake	-0.1
Central Florida	East Carolina	12.6
Charleston	Stony Brook	18.0
Cincinnati	SMU	12.5
Colgate	Army	10.7
Eastern Washington	Northern Arizona	6.3
Furman	Western Carolina	10.4
Hofstra	William & Mary	13.9
Houston Christian	New Orleans	-1.0
Indiana	Michigan	5.3
Iowa	Nebraska	10.4
James Madison	South Alabama	2.0
Kennesaw St.	Liberty	-4.8
Lafayette	American	2.6
Louisiana	Texas St.	6.2
McNeese St.	Texas A&M-Commerce	-3.0
Memphis	Houston	-5.2
Minnesota	Wisconsin	-7.3
Montana St.	Northern Colorado	6.6
North Dakota St.	South Dakota	4.6
Penn St.	Maryland	-0.2
Purdue	Illinois	7.1
Rutgers	Northwestern	4.9
Towson	Delaware	5.1
Tulane	Temple	4.9
UNC Asheville	Campbell	5.0
UNC Wilmington	Drexel	1.2
Western Illinois	St. Thomas	-3.7
Wichita St.	South Florida	5.2
Wofford	Chattanooga	-2.0

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Automatic Bids To NCAA Tournament

Fairleigh-Dickinson (19-14) Northeast Conference

Southeast Missouri St. (19-16) Ohio Valley Conference

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Sunday’s Conference Tournament Schedule

All Times Eastern Standard

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Atlantic Sun Conference — Higher Seed Hosts

CHAMPIONSHIP GAME (ESPN2)

#2 Liberty (26-7) at #1 Kennesaw St. (25-8) 3 PM

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Big Sky Conference — Boise, ID

Quarterfinals Day 1 (Both Games on ESPN+)

#1 Eastern Washington (22-9) vs. #9 Northern Arizona (10-22) 5:30 PM

#2 Montana St. (22-9) vs. #8 Northern Colorado (12-19) 8 PM

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Big South Conference — Charlotte

CHAMPIONSHIP GAME (ESPN2)

#1 UNC Asheville (26-7) vs. #7 Campbell (16-17) 1 PM

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Colonial Athletic Association — Washington, D.C.

Quarterfinals (All Games on flohoops.com)

#1 Hofstra (23-8) vs. #8 William & Mary (13-19) 12 PM

#4 UNC Wilmington (22-9) vs. #5 Drexel (17-14) 2:30 PM

#2 Charleston (28-3) vs. #10 Stony Brook (11-21) 6 PM

#3 Towson (20-11) vs. #6 Delaware (17-15) 8:30 PM

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Missouri Valley Conference — Saint Louis (Arch Madness)

CHAMPIONSHIP GAME (CBS)

#1 Bradley (25-8) vs. #2 Drake (26-7) 2 PM

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Patriot League — Higher Seed Hosts

Semifinals (Both Games on CBSSN)

#1 Colgate (24-8) vs. #4 Army (17-15) 2 PM

#6 Lafayette (10-22) vs. #7 American (17-14) 4 PM

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Southern Conference — Asheville, NC

Semifinals

#1 Furman (25-7) vs. #4 Western Carolina (18-14) ESPNU 4 PM

#6 Wofford (17-15) vs. #7 Chattanooga (17-16) ESPNEWS 6:30 PM

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Southland Conference — Lake Charles, LA

1st Round (Both Games on ESPN+)

#5 Texas A&M-Commerce (13-19) vs. #8 McNeese St. (9-22) 6 PM

#6 Houston Christian (10-21) vs. #7 New Orleans (10-19) 8:30 PM

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Summit League — Sioux Falls, SD

Quarterfinals Day 2 (Both Games on ESPN+)

#4 Western Illinois (16-13) vs. #5 St. Thomas (18-13) 7 PM

#3 North Dakota St. (14-16) vs. #6 South Dakota (12-18) 9:30 PM

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Sun Belt Conference — Pensacola, FL

Semifinals (Both Games on ESPN+)

#4 James Madison (22-10) vs. #8 South Alabama (18-15) 6 PM

#2 Louisiana (24-7) vs. #11 Texas St. (16-18) 8:30 PM

PiRate Ratings Bracketology

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

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Last 4 Byes: USC, West Virginia, Auburn, Pittsburgh

Last 4 In: Mississippi St., Rutgers, Arizona St., Wisconsin

First 4 Out: North Carolina, Utah St., Penn State, Michigan

Next 4 Out: Oklahoma St., Oregon, Clemson, New Mexico

PiRate Ratings College Basketball–Thursday, March 2, 2023

Thursday’s PiRate Ratings Spreads

Home	Visitor	Spread
Arkansas Pine Bluff	Jackson St.	0.9
Army	Boston U	3.6
Cal St. Northridge	Hawaii	-8.3
Cleveland St.	Robert Morris	5.0
Colgate	Loyola (MD)	15.0
Delaware St.	Maryland Eastern Shore	-6.9
Fairfield	Quinnipiac	-1.7
Georgia Southern	Louisiana Monroe	4.6
Grambling	Alabama A&M	9.5
Houston	Wichita St.	19.1
Howard	Norfolk St.	-1.7
Illinois	Michigan	4.5
Indiana St.	Evansville	17.3
Iona	Marist	17.9
Kennesaw St.	Lipscomb	4.3
Lehigh	Lafayette	2.4
Liberty	Eastern Kentucky	12.8
Long Beach St.	Cal St. Bakersfield	9.6
Louisiana Tech	Florida Intl.	6.9
Milwaukee	Wright St.	-0.9
Minnesota	Rutgers	-11.3
Mississippi Valley St.	Alcorn St.	-6.5
Missouri St.	Illinois Chicago	8.0
Morgan St.	Coppin St.	7.2
Murray St.	Valparaiso	2.6
Navy	American	8.1
North Texas	Middle Tennessee	7.2
Northern Iowa	Illinois St.	3.1
Northern Kentucky	Oakland	7.9
Old Dominion	Texas St.	3.7
Oregon	California	17.8
Oregon St.	Stanford	-4.6
Pacific	Pepperdine	-0.8
Portland	San Diego	2.3
Rice	Florida Atlantic	-9.5
Saint Peter’s	Rider	-3.5
Siena	Manhattan	8.8
SMU	Memphis	-8.7
South Alabama	Appalachian St.	3.5
South Carolina St.	North Carolina Central	-8.4
Southern U.	Alabama St.	9.3
Temple	Central Florida	-1.5
Tennessee St.	Southeast Missouri St.	-0.5
Troy	Arkansas St.	9.4
UC Davis	UC Santa Barbara	0.5
UC Riverside	UC Irvine	-0.6
UC San Diego	Cal Poly	4.6
UCLA	Arizona St.	12.4
USC	Arizona	-1.7
UT-Martin	SIU Edwardsville	-0.9
UTEP	Western Kentucky	1.0
UTSA	Charlotte	-8.9
Washington	Washington St.	-0.7
Wisconsin	Purdue	-4.9
Youngstown St.	Detroit	7.6

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Thursday’s Conference Tournament Schedule

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Atlantic Sun Conference (Higher Seed Hosts)

Semifinals — Both games start at 7 PM EST on ESPN+

#3 Eastern Kentucky (20-12) at #2 Liberty (25-7)

#5 Lipscomb (20-12) at #1 Kennesaw St. (24-8)

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Horizon League (Higher Seed Hosts)

Quarterfinals — All Games on ESPN+

#5 Oakland (13-18) at #4 Northern Kentucky (19-12) 7 PM EST

#8 Detroit (14-18) at #1 Youngstown St. (23-8) 8 PM EST

#7 Wright St. (18-14) at #2 Milwaukee (20-10) 8 PM EST

#6 Robert Morris (16-16) at #3 Cleveland St. (19-12) 8 PM EST

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Missouri Valley Conference (Arch Madness–St. Louis) (All Games on MVC TV Network)

#8 Northern Iowa (13-17) vs. #9 Illinois St. (11-20) 1 PM EST

#5 Indiana St. (20-11) vs. #12 Evansville (5-26) 3:30 PM EST

#7 Murray St. (16-14) vs. #10 Valparaiso (11-20) 7 PM EST

#6 Missouri St. (16-14) vs. #11 Illinois-Chicaco (12-19) 9:30 PM EST

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Ohio Valley Conference — Evansville, IN

Quarterfinals — Both Games on ESPN+

#4 Tennessee St. (18-13) vs. #5 Southeast Missouri St. (16-16) 7:30 PM EST

#3 UT-Martin (18-13) vs. #6 SIU Edwardsville (19-13) 10 PM EST

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Patriot League — Higher Seeds Host

Quarterfinals (All Games on ESPN+)

#4 Army (16-15) vs. #5 Boston U (15-16) 6 PM EST

#8 Loyola (MD) (13-19) at #1 Colgate (23-8) 7 PM EST

#6 Lafayette (9-22) at #3 Lehigh (16-13) 7 PM EST

#7 American (16-14) at #2 Navy (18-12) 7 PM EST

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Sun Belt Conference — Pensacola, FL

2nd Round (All Games on ESPN+)

#8 South Alabama (16-15) vs. #9 Appalachian St. (16-15) 12:30 PM EST

#5 Troy (19-12) vs. #13 Arkansas St. (13-19) 3 PM EST

#6 Old Dominion (19-11) vs. #11 Texas St. (14-18) 6 PM EST

#7 Georgia Southern (16-15) vs. #10 Louisiana Monroe (11-20) 8:30 PM EST

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West Coast Conference — Las Vegas

1st Round (Both Games on BYUtv)

#8 Portland (13-18) vs. #9 San Diego (11-19) 9 PM EST

#7 Pacific (14-17) vs. #10 Pepperdine (9-21) 11:30 PM EST