The Favorites To Watch And Upsets To Pick In The 2022 Men's NCAA Tournament
March Madness is back, and this year's tournament of buzzer beaters and bracket busters is set up to be even more chaotic than usual. Unlike last season, when the consensus best teams in men's basketball met in the national final, the 2021-22 season didn't feature twin juggernauts. Gonzaga held top billing for nearly half the season -- and this might be only the third-best team that Mark Few has coached in the past four years. Seven different teams held the No. 2 spot in the AP Poll, quite the departure from last season when one team held it in all but two iterations.
Strap in for a unique run to New Orleans. The 68-team field includes more representation from the Mountain West Conference than it does the Conference of Champions, er, Pac-12. Nine teams from the Big Ten qualified, the most of any conference; however, none of them has even a 5 percent probability of becoming the conference's first national champion since Michigan State in 2000.
Prepare for the unmistakable chaos of the NCAA Tournament by reading up on our forecast model. The First Four games will be played Tuesday and Wednesday, with the first round tipping off Thursday and continuing Friday.
Let's dance.
East Region
Power rating and and chances to advance in the men's NCAA Tournament, according to the FiveThirtyEight model
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