Tournament Hub2025-26 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship

NCAA Tournament Bracket, title odds, and region pressure.

Start with the full board, then work from the teams with the cleanest six-game path. Title probabilities, upset alerts, and First Four routes are built directly into the bracket experience.

Games on board

67

32 Round of 64 matchups

First Four

4

Play-in winners flow into the main bracket

Title favorite

Houston

19.1% title equity

Toughest region

South

Avg T-Rank 68

First Four

Dayton decides the open lines

These winners feed directly into the South, West, and Midwest regions. Use the picker view if you want those play-in picks to cascade into the full bracket automatically.

Choose a view

Read the tournament board or switch into pick mode to build your own path.

East Region

South Region

West Region

Midwest Region

Final Four & Championship

Bracket Analytics

Championship Probability

Simulated via recursive Log5 model. Probabilities based on Torvik barthag ratings.

TeamSeedRegionR32S16E8F4FinalWin
Houston2South98%76%56%46%29.5%19.1%
Duke1East99%78%50%39%27.0%16.1%
Tennessee6Midwest86%78%49%34%20.5%12.5%
Gonzaga3West97%70%49%36%20.4%10.8%
Kansas4East95%62%29%20%12.1%6.0%
Alabama4Midwest94%63%43%20%10.3%5.2%
Iowa State2Midwest98%60%30%18%9.5%4.9%
Purdue2West96%68%29%18%7.5%2.9%
Illinois3South96%57%20%13%5.7%2.5%
Arizona1West97%65%39%16%6.1%2.1%
UCLA7East77%48%31%11%5.4%2.1%
Kentucky7Midwest82%37%17%9%4.4%2.0%
Florida1South96%58%38%13%4.7%1.8%
St. John's5East86%36%13%8%3.9%1.5%
Michigan1Midwest95%62%26%9%3.4%1.3%
Texas Tech5Midwest86%34%19%7%2.6%1.0%

! Upset Watch

Games where the lower seed ranks higher in T-Rank efficiency or the matchup is closer than the seed line suggests.

Biggest Mismatches

R64 games with the largest T-Rank gap between teams.

Region Power Rankings

Regions ranked by average T-Rank of all teams. Lower is tougher.

1

South

Avg T-Rank: 68 · 1-seed: Florida

2

Midwest

Avg T-Rank: 82 · 1-seed: Michigan

3

East

Avg T-Rank: 88 · 1-seed: Duke

4

West

Avg T-Rank: 101 · 1-seed: Arizona

Value Picks & Trap Games

Value = (Seed × 18) − T-Rank. Positive = underseeded, negative = overseeded.

Underseeded (Value)

#10Texas A&MSouth
T-Rank #17+163
#11VCUSouth
T-Rank #36+162
#12McNeeseSouth
T-Rank #74+142
#15FurmanEast
T-Rank #137+133
#10MissouriWest
T-Rank #55+125

Overseeded (Trap)

#16LIUWest
T-Rank #323-35
#3VirginiaMidwest
T-Rank #89-35
#16SienaEast
T-Rank #321-33
#15Tennessee StateMidwest
T-Rank #297-27
#14PennSouth
T-Rank #264-12

Tempo Clashes

R64 matchups with the biggest pace differential. Games above 5.0 are significant mismatches.

Toughest Paths to Sweet 16

1-seeds ranked by the combined T-Rank strength of opponents they could face in R64 + R32.

SouthSouth

Avg opp T-Rank: 41 · Clemson (#37), Iowa (#45)

MidwestMidwest

Avg opp T-Rank: 79 · Georgia (#44), Saint Louis (#114)

DukeEast

Avg opp T-Rank: 136 · Siena (#321), Ohio State (#26), TCU (#61)

ArizonaWest

Avg opp T-Rank: 148 · LIU (#323), Villanova (#63), Utah State (#57)

Chalk Probability

Probability that all higher seeds win R64 in each region. Lower = more upset-prone.

Midwest

1-seed:

35.4%

Chalk-friendly

East

1-seed: Duke

25.2%

Chalk-friendly

West

1-seed: Arizona

14.9%

Chalk-friendly

South

1-seed:

5.1%

Chalk-friendly