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We take a look at every team in the women’s NCAA tournament, from top seeds to the First Four.

Stanford and Virginia Tech earned the highly contested final two No. 1 seeds in the 2023 NCAA women’s basketball tournament, joining South Carolina and Indiana.

Around 60 million to 100 million brackets are filled out each year.
March Madness brackets for the 2023 men’s and women’s NCAA tournaments came out on Sunday evening shortly after the Selection Sunday show.
Now it’s time for fans to begin filling out as many brackets as they want. Around 60 million to 100 million brackets are filled out by fans every year.
But, when are March Madness brackets even due?
That depends on each bracket challenge and the pool manager. Most brackets, though, must be complete before the first Round of 64 game, which begins at 12:15 p.m.

The field looks particularly ripe for early upsets.
Here are my 10 takeaways from the NCAA tournament men’s bracket reveal on Selection Sunday:
1. The potential for mayhem is real and spectacular.
As has been chronicled all season, the sport’s top tier is thin and fickle. No teams from Power 6 conferences have lost fewer than five games; the AP No. 1 ranking changed hands seven times and 14 different teams have been ranked in the top five; only three teams among the top 12 seeds won both their regular-season and postseason championships (Alabama, Purdue and Marquette).

The longtime ESPN college basketball analyst picked who he believes will cut down the nets.
An annual tradition on Selection Sunday is seeing who some of the top college basketball analysts have in their brackets both in the Final Four and national championship.
One of the highlights of this time of year is seeing the bracket of the always enthusiastic Dick Vitale, who continues to prove that age is just a number.
Vitale made his picks in his bracket, as he selected No. 1 Alabama to make the Final Four out of the South region, No. 5 Duke out of the East region, No.

The First Four matchup is slated for Tuesday.
With the 2023 NCAA tournament bracket set in stone, the First Four matchups are looming, including a matchup between potential No. 11 seeds, Pittsburgh and Mississippi State. 
The Panthers and Bulldogs will be competing to get into the round of 64 in the bracket’s midwest region. The winner is slated to face Iowa State in the first round, the No. 6 seed in the region. 
Here is all the information for the First Four matchup between Pitt and Mississippi State, including tip-off time, TV channel, the game’s announcers and location and more.

The NCAA Tournament selection committee released the 68 teams in the field for the NCAA Tournament. The North Carolina Tar Heels are not one of them.
In failing to make the tournament, North Carolina made history. Not the good kind.

The first team in College Basketball history to miss the NCAA Tournament as a preseason #1 Team:
2022-2023 North Carolina Tar Heels.
History has been made today pic.twitter.com/9p1SYzKofe
— College Basketball Report (@CBKReport) March 12, 2023

The almost made other history … except, they tied themselves.

The field is set for the men’s and women’s tournaments, so it’s time to dive in and figure out who was rewarded and who got robbed.

The analyst chose what appears to be an unlikely choice for the 2023 champion.
Shortly after the full March Madness men’s bracket was released on Sunday, various college basketball experts made their projected picks for this year’s tournament.
ESPN’s Jay Bilas came out strong and chose an unlikely champion for the 2023 NCAA tournament. Bilas, who is a Duke alum, chose the No. 5 Blue Devils to be the national runners-up. Then, he picked No. 4 UConn as the 2023 national champions.
Bilas wasn’t the only ESPN analyst to put UConn in his Final Four.

From Alabama to Fairleigh Dickinson, your in-depth guide to every team in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament.