2022-23 CBI/Basketball Classic Bracketology #2 1-7-23

By: Ethan Hennessy

Conference play is upon us! Here is my latest look at how I see the CBI and Basketball Classic Fields looking going into the first Saturday in January.

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College Basketball Invitational (16 teams Daytona Beach Florida)

• Air Force (9-7 MW)
• Army (9-7 Patriot)
• Brant (10-5 America East)
• California Baptist (9-7 WAC)
• Duquesne (12-4 A10)
• JMU (11-5 Sun Belt)
• Loyola Marymount (12-5 WCC)
• Ohio (8-6 MAC)
• Princeton (11-4 Ivy)
• Rice (11-4 CUSA)
• San Jose State (11-5 MW)
• Southern Indiana (8-8 OVC)
• UIC (9-7 MVC)
• UMBC (10-6 America East)
• UNC Asheville (10-6 Big South)
• Yale (10-5 Ivy)

The Basketball Classic (32 teams campus sites)

• Charlotte (11-4 CUSA)
• Denver (10-7 Summit)
• Drexel (8-7 CAA)
• FIU (7-7 CUSA)
• Georgia State (8-7 Sun Belt)
• Grambling State (8-6 SWAC)
• Harvard (10-6 Ivy)
• High Point (8-7 Big South)
• Hofstra (9-7 CAA)
• Kennesaw State (10-6 ASUN)
• Maryland Eastern Shore (7-7 MEAC)
• Montana State (9-7 Big Sky)
• Murray State (9-6 MVC)
• Niagara (9-5 MAAC)
• Northwestern State (8-7 Southland)
• Old Dominion (9-6 Sun Belt)
• Pacific (9-9 WCC)
• Queens (12-4 ASUN)
• Quinnipiac (11-5 MAAC)
• Saint Thomas (12-6 Summit)
• Sacramento State (9-6 Big Sky)
• SIUE (11-5 OVC)
• Southern Miss (13-3 Sun Belt)
• Southern Utah (10-6 WAC)
• Toledo (10-5 MAC)
• Troy (10-6 Sun Belt)
• Utah Tech (9-7 WAC)
• UTEP (8-6 CUSA)
• UTRGV (8-7 WAC)
• Western Carolina (9-7 SoCon)
• Western Illinois (8-7 Summit)
• Youngstown State (11-5 Horizon)

Yearly breakdown

2022: 97% (36/37) Perfect CBI

2021: 100% (8/8) Perfect CBI

*2020: 88% minimum *It was later determined three days from Selection Sunday (at the time of the cancelations) I had already correctly predicted 37 of the would-be 42 teams confirmed in the fields.

2019: 93% (39/42)

2018: 75% (27/36)