One of the coolest things that the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee does is provide us with the entire seed list that they use for filling out the bracket.
What is the seed list, you ask?
Exactly what it sounds like: a ranking, from No. 1 to No. 68, of every single team in the NCAA tournament. This is what the committee uses instead of an S-Curve. It takes hours upon hours upon days to come up with this final list, but when they do, this is what is used to seed the teams. Nos. 1-4 are the 1-seeds. Nos. 5-8 are the 2-seeds, etc.
The only place it gets a little bit tricky is when you run into the bracketing rules. Teams from the same conference can’t play each other before the Elite 8. Regular season rematches are frowned upon. Previous tournament matchups are less than ideal. That’s how some of these teams end up seeing their seeds differ from where they rank here.
Before I get to the list, a couple of interesting notes:
- La Salle and Middle Tennessee State (at Nos. 49 and 50) were the last two at-larges in the field.
- Ole Miss (No. 47) was only ranked above two at-large teams, so it stands to reason that they may have missed the tournament if they hadn’t earned the automatic bid.
- All the complaining about Oregon and Cal being No. 12 seeds is incorrect. They were ranked No. 41 and No. 42, meaning they would have been 11 seeds if it weren’t for bracketing rules that got in the way.
So without further ado, here is the 2013 NCAA Tournament Official Seed List:
- Louisville
- Kansas
- Indiana
- Gonzaga
- Miami (FL)
- Duke
- Georgetown
- Ohio State
- New Mexico
- Florida
- Michigan St.
- Marquette
- Michigan
- Kansas St.
- Saint Louis
- Syracuse
- Oklahoma St.
- UNLV
- Wisconsin
- VCU
- Arizona
- Butler
- Memphis
- UCLA
- Creighton
- San Diego St.
- Notre Dame
- Illinois
- North Carolina
- Colorado St.
- Pittsburgh
- North Carolina St.
- Missouri
- Temple
- Wichita St.
- Colorado
- Cincinnati
- Villanova
- Iowa St.
- Oklahoma
- Minnesota
- California
- Oregon
- Belmont
- Boise St.
- St. Mary’s (CA)
- Ole Miss
- Bucknell
- La Salle
- Middle Tenn. State
- Akron
- New Mexico St.
- South Dakota St.
- Montana
- Davidson
- Valparaiso
- Northwestern St.
- Harvard
- FGCU
- Pacific
- Iona
- Albany (NY)
- Western Ky.
- Southern U.
- LIU Brooklyn
- James Madison
- N.C. A&T
- Liberty