Joe Lunardi was anti-UNC throughout the Tar Heels season while they were on the bubble, so North Carolina's early exit from March Madness gave him a chance to take one more shot. He might've ...

Joe Lunardi: North Carolina missed out on their golden opportunity Prior to the Heels game against Duke, Lunardi revealed his up-to-date bracketology, which listed UNC as the first team out of the ...

To see Lunardi’s entire field of 68 projection, head over to ESPN Bracketology for the full bracket. Fourteen SEC teams made his tournament, including Florida, one of the four projected No. 1 seeds.

Dating back to the 2016-17 season, the Hoosiers have only made two of the previous eight March Madness fields. Lunardi’s current No. 1 seeds are Houston, Duke, Florida and Purdue.

ESPN's bracketologist, Joe Lunardi, believes the SEC is well on its way to sending 13 teams to the 2024-25 men's NCAA tournament, which would be a new record.

If this came to fruition, Duke would face the winner of Vermont vs. Jackson State in the opening round after a First Four battle for that No. 16 seed. The Tar Heels came in as Lunardi's No. 7 seed.

Back in late April, ESPN’s Joe Lunardi – the go-to bracketologist in college basketball – released his first edition of 2026 Bracketology, and Kansas was listed as a seven seed set to take ...

For Joe Lunardi, March Madness is just a one-month part of Annual Endlessness. As ESPN’s bracketologist, he has become synonymous with the bracketing and seeding process of the NCAA Tournament.

Lunardi took to Twitter/X after the Round of 64 to establish that he was second-to-last in his family bracket group. And in last place? The family dog, Sam, picked the Samford Bulldogs to win it all.

Pegging UCLA as roughly 20 to 25 spots away from being among his “Last Four In,” Lunardi said he envisioned two scenarios in which Bruins could make the NCAA tournament without securing the ...

Lunardi’s latest bracket prediction has Auburn in the south region, facing either Iona or St. Francis (PA), who he projects to play in the First Four.