
It is now March, also known as the best month of the year because it means madness in NCAA Basketball. However, before the tournament with the nickname “March Madness” starts, conference tournaments must happen first.
This season has been one of the craziest in the history of NCAA Basketball and because of that, predicting the winners of all 32 conferences is incredibly difficult. However, it must be done and that is exactly what we are going to do today.
In November I tweeted out my predictions for who would win each of the 32 conferences before the season started, a lot of those teams still look like the contenders or favorites to win their conference, but there are also a couple who look horrible.
NCAAM Predictions, Conference Winners:
— Matthew Travis (@MatthewJTravis_) November 5, 2019
ACC: Duke
SEC: Kentucky
B1G: Maryland
XII: Kansas
PAC 12: Oregon
Big East: Seton Hall
AAC: Cincinnati
MAC: Bowling Green
WCC: Saint Mary’s
America East: Vermont
A10: Davidson
ASun: Liberty
Big Sky: Montana
Big South: Winthrop
Big West: UCI
As mentioned, this season has been complete and utter chaos and because of it, this season’s conference tournaments will continue that trend. Expect teams who were at the bottom of the standings to make runs, expect teams who looked unbeatable to be beaten, expect March Madness.
This year’s conference tournaments have the potential to be the craziest we’ve ever seen, crazier than that Cincinnati/UCONN American Conference Tournament game from 2016. Maybe not THAT crazy, but we will see things we’ve never seen before nonetheless.
The question is, will we see the teams who should win, win, or will we see the teams everyone counted out, win some games and maybe make their way into the tournament?
Countless teams have something to prove and every single team will be playing like their season Is on the line, because it is and that will make March even better.
So without further ado, here are my predictions for each of the 32 conference tournament winners, compared to my predictions from the beginning of the year: