The NCAA Tournament Selection Committee will announce the current top 16 seeds on Saturday, with Arizona topping the list.
The Wildcats (19-5, 10-3 Pac-12) are currently the consensus No. 1 seed, according to BracketMatrix.com. UA's average seed across the 94 brackets collected was 1.19, which ranks fourth behind unanimously No. 1 UConn, Purdue and Houston. North Carolina (1.91) and Tennessee (1.94) are fifth and he is sixth, respectively.
Arizona State ranked No. 6 on the selection committee. Early bracket release This time last year, we ended up getting the No. 2 seed a few weeks later.
With seven games remaining in the regular season and up to three games remaining in the Pac-12 Tournament in Las Vegas, it seems very likely that Arizona will open the NCAA Tournament in Salt Lake City. The Wildcats are starting in almost every bracket, including all games from the main site, which has them as the No. 1 seed in the West.
That means playing the second weekend in Los Angeles and then playing the Final Four in Glendale.
If UA earns the No. 1 seed for the first time in three seasons, it could face the winner of the First Four, just like in 2022. Here are the predictions from CBS, Bleacher Report, and others. Arizona State will play either Norfolk State or South Dakota State. Other projected No. 16 seeds include Eastern Kentucky, Green Bay, Merrimack and Southern, which they have already played this season, according to BracketMatrix.
