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Gator doing a Gator Chomp, what’s not to like | Photo by David Rosenblum/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Sick of hard-hitting analysis of the 2026 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament? Up to your eyeballs in expert picks chock-full of astute takes on players to watch and budding upsets? Fear not, friends: your pals at Anonymous Eagle are here to inject some half-baked, homespun “insight” into the proceedings, with our (mostly) annual region-by-region tour, as we go Anonymously Through the Brackets.

For each region, we’ll give you our patented Anonymous Eagle Half-Arsed Analysis with: a gutless pick to win the region; a sleeper regional champ; a CRUSH YOUR MAN upset special; a player/team we’d pay to watch; a player most likely to carry his team singlehandedly to the Sweet 16; and the best player in the region that you’ve never heard of before. Let’s head on down south, which in this case is directionally south of the east region on the ol’ bracket sheet….. GUTLESS WONDER Pick To Win The Region There are more cowardly and uninteresting picks to win a region elsewhere in this year’s field, but I’ll tell you what: Picking last year’s national champion standing as a #1 seed this year is a tough contender for “you get no credit for picking that team to get to the Final Four.

” Yep, there’s Florida , sitting atop the region, waiting for either Prairie View A&M or Lehigh to come out of Dayton to be their first round opponent. The Gators had a 12 game winning streak snapped in the SEC semifinals, and that winning streak propelled them to win the SEC by three games over Arkansas and Alabama. That’s the “10 bids, most in the tournament” SEC, and Florida won it by a resounding margin after getting off to a 5-2 start.

Maybe they don’t repeat as champion — they have non-conference losses to Arizona, Duke and Connecticut, after all — but all we’re doing is taking the cheap way out to pick who can win four games in a row. CHEX BOLD PARTY MIX Bold Pick To Win The Region Remember when I said that Florida lost in the SEC semifinals? They lost by 17 points to Vanderbilt , which is the #5 seed in this region.