Notre Dame’s Jerian Grant and Duke’s Tyus Jones. (Getty)
With the 2015 regular season is coming to a close and conference tournaments approaching next week, it’s finally time to starting looking at how the NCAA Tournament brackets project for later this month.
Here is a look at ESPN’s, USA Today’s and CBS Sports’ projected brackets as of March 5th:
ESPN
(Projected 2015 NCAA Tournament Bracket by Joe Lunardi/ESPN.com)
Four No. 1 Seeds: Kentucky, Virginia, Villanova, Duke
USA Today
(Projected 2015 NCAA Tournament Bracket/USAToday.com)
(Projected 2015 NCAA Tournament Bracket/USAToday.com)
Four No.1 Seeds: Kentucky, Villanova, Virginia, Duke
CBS Sports
(Projected 2015 NCAA Tournament Bracket/CBSSports.com)
(Projected 2015 NCAA Tournament Bracket/CBSSports.com)
(Projected 2015 NCAA Tournament Bracket/CBSSports.com)
(Projected 2015 NCAA Tournament Bracket/CBSSports.com)
(Projected 2015 NCAA Tournament Bracket/CBSSports.com)
Four No. 1 Seeds: Kentucky, Virginia, Duke, Villanova
In every bracket, Jay Wright and the Villanova Wildcats vaulted Gonzaga to become a No. 1 seed. Two ACC teams, Virginia and Duke, are projected for No. 1 seeds.
Here are the 2015 dates and sites for each round of tournament games:
First Round:
Dayton (March 17-18)
Second and Third Round:
Jacksonville, Louisville, Pittsburgh, Portland (March 19, 21)
Charlotte, Columbus, Omaha, Seattle (March 20, 22)
Regionals:
Cleveland, Los Angeles (March 26, 28)
Houston, Syracuse (March 27, 29)
Final Four:
Indianapolis (April 4, 6)
