Joe Lunardi's bracketology is out. Here's who makes the cut entering 2021-22 season
Joe Lunardi's bracketology is up and running as the 2021-22 college basketball season is set to begin.
Lunardi, ESPN's expert bracketologist, expects seven SEC teams to make the NCAA Tournament field, led by Kentucky as a 3-seed. Alabama and Arkansas are 4-seeds. Tennessee is a 5-seed, Auburn is a 6-seed LSU is an 8-seed. Florida, a 10-seed, is one of Lunardi's Last Four In.
Mississippi State is the first team out of the tournament. Ole Miss, Vanderbilt, Texas A&M, Georgia, South Carolina and Missouri did not appear in the bracketology.
Lunardi also expects Memphis, with a star-studded recruiting class coached by Penny Hardaway, to be the automatic qualifier out of the American Athletic Conference and earn a 3-seed.
He also expects UAB to win the Conference USA Tournament and Belmont to win the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament. Both are listed as 12-seeds.
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