Basketball Boomers Blaze Up: Regionals to Rock Your Socks in March Madness '26!
Arizona is the strongest team in the country playing in the weakest bracket. You do the math.
March Madness bracket 2026: Upset predictions, sleepers, Final Four pick in West Region originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . Do you know the way to San Jose?
Yeah, it runs through Portland or San Diego – and eventually through the Arizona Wildcats. That Arizona would be a No. 1 seed in the West Region of the 2026 NCAA Tournament could have been called on about Dec.
15. They were that good. And they were the only team that good that wanted to open its NCAA Tournament in this part of the country.
The bracket suggests Arizona advancement to the Final Four – after going through some challenging games in the West Sweet 16 at San Jose’s SAP Center is just to the Earthly side of inevitable, but even if that turns out to be so, there will be no region of the four in March Madness that will be as entertaining. Nine of the nation’s top 30 scoring offenses are located in the West. For the next couple weeks, anyway.
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