2026 Official Seed Watch List Thread

[bleedingTNorange]

As of today, 1/11/26, TeamRankings gives us pretty much a 50/50 split of being 5 seed or better, or 6 seed or worse. The by seed chances are listed below, I’ll update periodically in this post but also make a new post in the thread as well when I do so. Our most likely range is from a 3 seed to 8 seed, so that’s what I’ll focus on with teams around us and the seed list that I post, just like in years past I will use bracketmatrix.com…


3 seed
Purdue
Kansas
Michigan State
Florida
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4 seed
Gonzaga
Vanderbilt
Virginia
Texas Tech
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5 seed
Alabama
North Carolina
Tennessee
St. John’s
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6 seed
Arkansas
BYU
Louisville
Clemson
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7 seed
Saint Louis
Kentucky
Iowa
North Carolina State
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8 seed
Villanova
Auburn
Utah State
Central Florida

 

[cncchris33]

Barring an undefeated finish, I think 4 is our ceiling. Sure would be nice to get to a 3, though. Maybe a strong SECT run would bump us up a line without finishing undefeated.