March Madness bracket predictions 1.0: Projecting the Field of 68 for 2026 NCAA Tournament
Florida won the national championship last season with an offense that ranked fifth in the nation at 84.8 points per game. Three of the four No. 1 seeds in Sporting News first men's bracketology for the 2025-26 Men's Basketball Tournament are above that pace heading into the first week of February. Arizona averages 89.5 points per game under coach Tommy Lloyd. The Wildcats are our top overall seed, followed closely by Michigan, which averages 90.5 points per game under second-year coach Dusty May. Duke averages 85 points per game under Jon Scheyer. UConn – our last No. 1 seed – averages 79 points per game – but the Huskies have a top-10 scoring defense at 64 points per game. Those are the...