Welcome to The Field, an episodic look at the squads still alive in this year’s tournament. In each edition I will lay out the current field and provide a ranked list of the remaining teams. Here’s what I’ve got as of Selection Sunday, with actual NCAA tourney seeding included to the right of each name.
Sunday, March 11th
- Villanova (1)
- Virginia (1)
- Duke (2)
- Purdue (2)
- Michigan State (3)
- North Carolina (2)
- Kansas (1)
- Arizona (4)
- Michigan (3)
- Xavier (1)
- Cincinnati (2)
- Wichita State (4)
- Gonzaga (4)
- Texas Tech (3)
- West Virginia (5)
- Tennessee (3)
- Ohio State (5)
- Auburn (4)
- Houston (6)
- Florida (6)
- Kentucky (5)
- Clemson (5)
- Missouri (8)
- Seton Hall (8)
- NC State (9)
- Rhode Island (7)
- Nevada (7)
- Miami (6)
- Texas A&M (7)
- Creighton (8)
- Alabama (9)
- Providence (10)
- Butler (10)
- TCU (6)
- Oklahoma (10)
- Virginia Tech (9)
- Florida State (9)
- Texas (10)
- Arkansas (6)
- Loyola-Chicago (11)
- Arizona State (11)
- Kansas State (9)
- Davidson (12)
- UCLA (11)
- New Mexico State (12)
- St. Bonnaventure (11)
- Murray State (12)
- Buffalo (13)
- South Dakota State (13)
- Stephen F Austin (14)
- San Diego State (12)
- Syracuse (11)
- UNC-Greensborough (13)
- Wright State (13)
- Montana (14)
- Bucknell (14)
- Marshall (14)
- Lipscomb (15)
- CSU Fullerton (15)
- Iona (15)
- Georgia State (15)
- Pennsylvania (16)
- UMBC (16)
- Radnor (16)
- Texas Southern (16)
- NC Central (16)
- LIU Brooklyn (16)