The Biggest Dance of All
What’s madder than March Madness, the 68-team single-elimination college basketball tournament that takes a month?
The NCAA 362: the 362-team single-elimination tournament that takes three months and crowns the ultimate champion of college basketball.
CONGRATULATIONS to the 2023 NCAA 363 champion, the Gonzaga Bulldogs!
Gonzaga defeated Pittsburgh in the championship game, by a score of 94-88. The other Final Five teams were Old Dominion, Pittsburgh, and Purdue.
The idea came from the 2020 NCAA men’s basketball tournament, which was cancelled by the global COVID-19 pandemic. To fill the void in those weird times, I simulated the entire tournament. Duke won it all, beating East Tennessee State 92-72 in the final.
What to do for an encore? Why not upgrade the tournament?
The idea comes from the great soccer tournaments of Europe, like the FA Cup in England. Every team qualifies, all matchups are randomly chosen, winners advance. Upsets abound, favorites get knocked out early, and a small school can ride a lucky streak all the way to a title.
The schedule for each round is announced at the beginning of the round. The games are simulated, day by day, using the whatifsports.com college basketball simulator. Winners of each game advance to the next round.
Disclaimer: this was just for fun, it’s not an officially sanctioned NCAA event. But you should still use the results for your school’s bragging rights.
Results
Coming soon!
Schedule (all times ET)
Round of 362
Sunday March 17th
5 AM: St. Francis Brooklyn at Texas Southern
6 AM: Kennesaw State at Brown
7 AM: Maryland Eastern Shore at Lamar
8 AM: Iona at Yale
9 AM: New Mexico State at Fairleigh Dickinson
10 AM: Presbyterian at Texas A&M
11 AM: Colorado State at San Jose State
Noon: Bowling Green at Norfolk State
1 PM: Detroit Mercy at Gardner-Webb
2 PM: Bradley at Gonzaga
3 PM: Saint Mary’s at Santa Clara
4 PM: Stonehill at William & Mary
5 PM: Bryant at Marist
6 PM: LaSalle at St. Peter’s
7 PM: Drake at Bellarmine
8 PM: Pittsburgh at Montana State
9 PM: Seton Hall at Milwaukee
10 PM: New Orleans at UCF
11 PM: Kansas City at Utah Tech
Monday March 18th
12:05 AM: Charleston Southern at Hawaii
1 AM: Texas A&M Corpus Christi at Boise State
2 AM: Fairfield at Pepperdine
3 AM: Northwestern State at Southern Illinois
4 AM: Florida Gulf Coast at Ball State
5 AM: Albany at Wagner
6 AM: Cal State Bakersfield at Arkansas State
7 AM: Wichita State at UTSA
8 AM: Queens at Cincinnati
9 AM: Richmond at Jackson State
10 AM: Belmont at Providence
11 AM: Georgetown at Northern Kentucky
Noon: Florida Atlantic at Hampton
1 PM: DePaul at Army
2 PM: Virginia Tech at Illinois State
3 PM: St. John’s at Virginia
4 PM: Lehigh at Oklahoma State
5 PM: Wake Forest at Canisius
6 PM: Louisiana Monroe at Illinois
7 PM: Butler at Boston College
8 PM: Utah State at Michigan
9 PM: Kansas State at North Florida
10 PM: Marquette at UC Irvine
11 PM: SIU Edwardsville at USC
Tuesday March 19th
12:05 AM: UC Davis at St. Thomas
1 AM: California Baptist at Murray State
2 AM: Niagara at South Carolina State
3 AM: Eastern Kentucky at Duquesne
4 AM: Texas Rio Grande Valley at St. Francis (PA)
5 AM: Purdue Fort Wayne at Stetson
6 AM: Sacramento State at Portland
7 AM: Tennessee State at Incarnate Word
8 AM: Indiana Indianapolis at Rider
9 AM: East Carolina at Cal Poly
10 AM: Kent State at West Virginia
11 AM: Texas at Chicago State
Noon: Dayton at Sam Houston State
1 PM: Western Carolina at North Dakota State
2 PM: Baylor at Northeastern
3 PM: Alabama at George Mason
4 PM: Penn State at Iowa
5 PM: Saint Louis at Elon
6 PM: Clemson at Colgate
7 PM: UNLV at Arkansas
8 PM: Kentucky at Idaho
9 PM: UNC Greensboro at Georgia Tech
10 PM: Coastal Carolina at Jacksonville
11 PM: South Dakota at Columbia
Wednesday March 20th
12:05 AM: Lindenwood at Omaaha
1 AM: McNeese State at New Mexico
2 AM: Harvard at Georgia State
3 AM: Southern Indiana at Liberty
4 AM: Stony Brook at UMass Lowell
5 AM: Utah at Charlotte
6 AM: Western Kentucky at Delaware State
7 AM: Furman at Eastern Washington
8 AM: Central Arkansas at St. Joseph’s
9 AM: UAB at Vanderbilt
10 AM: New Hampshire at Cal State Fullerton
11 AM: UConn at Denver
Noon: Oklahoma at Holy Cross
1 PM: Washington State at Minnesota
2 PM: Creighton at Loyola Chicago
3 PM: Syracuse at Arizona State
4 PM: Montana at TCU
5 PM: Miami (FL) at Florida
6 PM: North Carolina at Tennessee
7 PM: NC State at Utah Valley
8 PM: Rhode Island at Louisville
9 PM: NJIT at Georgia
10 PM: Stanford at Towson
11 PM: Prairie View at Green Bay
Thursday March 21st
12:05 AM: Toledo at Cal State Northridge
1 AM: Fordham at Southeast Missouri State
2 AM: Bethune-Cookman at American
3 AM: Northern Colorado at Alabama A&M
4 AM: Ohio at Youngstown State
5 AM: Northern Illinois at UC Riverside
6 AM: Loyola (MD) at Bucknell
7 AM: Old Dominion at Weber State
8 AM: South Dakota State at Howard
9 AM: Nicholls State at Notre Dame
10 AM: Nevada at Hofstra
11 AM: Colorado at Michigan State
Noon: Missouri at UMBC
1 PM: Pacific at Purdue
2 PM: Duke at Samford
3 PM: Texas State at Memphis
4 PM: Temple at Southern Miss
5 PM: AIr Force at Troy
6 PM: Iowa State at South Florida
7 PM: Chattanooga at Xavier
8 PM: Princeton at Georgia Southern
9 PM: Oakland at Maryland
10 PM: San Diego State at Oral Roberts
11 PM: Wyoming at Western Michigan
Friday March 22nd
12:05 AM: Campbell at Davidson
1 AM: Charleston at SMU
2 AM: Boston University at Long Beach State
3 AM: South Alabama at George Washington
4 AM: Southeastern Louisiana at Eastern Michigan
5 AM: San Francisco at Mississippi
6 AM: Indiana State at James Madison
7 AM: Lipscomb at Robert Morris
8 AM: Portland State at North Texas
9 AM: South Carolina at Sacred Heart
10 AM: Tulane at Monmouth
11 AM: Fresno State at Penn
Noon: Eastern Illinois at Tennessee Tech
1 PM: Akron at Houston Christian
2 PM: USC Upstate at Morgan State
3 PM: Kansas at Texas Tech
4 PM: Northwestern at Manhattan
5 PM: Mississippi State at Grand Canyon
6 PM: VCU at Arizona
7 PM: LSU at Auburn
8 PM: Rutgers at Cornell
9 PM: Washington at Longwood
10 PM: UCLA at BYU
11 PM: Siena at Idaho State
Saturday March 23rd
12:05 AM: Delaware at Rice
1 AM: Northern Iowa at UNC Wilmington
2 AM: Evansville at Western Illinois
3 AM: The Citadel at Northern Arizona
4 AM: Binghamton at Long Island
5 AM: St. Bonaventure at UNC Ashveille
6 AM: Florida International at Southern
7 AM: Quinnipiac at Arkansas Pine Bluff
8 AM: Illinois Chicago at Texas A&M Commerce
9 AM: Tulsa at UC San Diego
10 AM: North Alabama at Florida State
11 AM: Drexel at Austin Peay
Noon: Wisconsin at North Dakota
1 PM: Loyola Marymount at Cleveland State
2 PM: Ohio State at Vermont
3 PM: Valparaiso at Appalachian State
4 PM: Southern Utah at Mercer
5 PM: Louisiana at Abilene Christian
6 PM: Indiana at Lafayette
7 PM: Mount St. Mary’s at Tennessee Martin
8 PM: Dartmouth at North Carolina A&T
9 PM: Morehead State at Alcorn State
10 PM: North Carolina Central at Oregon
11 PM: UMass at Oregon State
Sunday March 24th
12:05 AM: Buffalo at San Diego
1 AM: Tarleton State at High Point
2 AM: Texas Arlington at Winthrop
3 AM: UC Santa Barbara at Little Rock
4 AM: Mississippi Valley State at Florida A&M
5 AM: Grambling State at Central Michigan
6 AM: Miami (OH) at Louisiana Tech
7 AM: Wright State at Marshall
8 AM: UTEP at Missouri State
9 AM: Coppin State at Jacksonville State
10 AM: Seattle at Villanova
11 AM: Nebraska at Wofford
Noon: Radford at VMI
1 PM: Navy at Maine
2 PM: Stephen F. Austin at California
3 PM: Middle Tennessee at Central Connecticut State
4 PM: East Tennessee State at Alabama State
5 PM: Houston at Merrimack
Teams
Remaining
- Abilene Christian
- Air Force
- Akron
- Alabama
- Alabama A&M
- Alabama State
- Albany
- Alcorn State
- American
- Appalachian State
- Arizona
- Arizona State
- Arkansas
- Arkansas Pine Bluff
- Arkansas State
- Army
- Auburn
- Austin Peay
- Ball State
- Baylor
- Bellarmine
- Belmont
- Bethune-Cookman
- Binghamton
- Boise State
- Boston College
- Boston University
- Bowling Green
- Bradley
- Brown
- Bryant
- Bucknell
- Buffalo
- Butler
- BYU
- California
- Cal Poly
- Cal State Bakersfield
- Cal State Fullerton
- Cal State Northridge
- California Baptist
- Campbell
- Canisius
- Central Arkansas
- Central Connecticut
- Central Michigan
- Charleston
- Charleston Southern
- Charlotte
- Chattanooga
- Chicago State
- Cincinnati
- Clemson
- Cleveland State
- Coastal Carolina
- Colgate
- Colorado
- Colorado State
- Coppin State
- Cornell
- Creighton
- Dartmouth
- Davidson
- Dayton
- Delaware
- Delaware State
- Denver
- DePaul
- Detroit Mercy
- Drake
- Drexel
- Duquesne
- Duke
- East Carolina
- East Tennessee State
- Eastern Illinois
- Eastern Kentucky
- Eastern Michigan
- Eastern Washington
- Elon
- Evansville
- Fairfield
- Fairleigh Dickinson
- Florida
- Florida A&M
- Florida Atlantic
- Florida Gulf Coast
- Florida International
- Florida State
- Fordham
- Fresno State
- Furman
- Gardner-Webb
- George Mason
- George Washington
- Georgetown
- Georgia
- Georgia Southern
- Georgia State
- Georgia Tech
- Gonzaga
- Grambling State
- Grand Canyon
- Green Bay
- Hampton
- Harvard
- Hawaii
- High Point
- Hofstra
- Holy Cross
- Houston
- Houston Christian
- Howard
- Idaho
- Idaho State
- Illinois
- Illinois State
- Illinois Chicago
- Incarnate Word
- Indiana
- Indiana State
- Iona
- Iowa
- Iowa State
- IUPUI
- Jackson State
- Jacksonville
- Jacksonville State
- James Madison
- Kansas
- Kansas State
- Kennesaw State
- Kent State
- Kentucky
- La Salle
- Lafayette
- Lehigh
- Liberty
- Lindenwood
- Lipscomb
- Little Rock
- Long Beach State
- Long Island
- Longwood
- Louisiana
- Louisiana Monroe
- Louisiana Tech
- Louisville
- Loyola Chicago
- Loyola (MD)
- Loyola Marymount
- LSU
- Maine
- Manhattan
- Marist
- Marquette
- Marshall
- Maryland
- Maryland Eastern Shore
- McNeese State
- Memphis
- Mercer
- Merrimack
- Miami (FL)
- Miami (OH)
- Michigan
- Michigan State
- Middle Tennessee State
- Milwaukee
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Mississippi State
- Mississippi Valley State
- Missouri
- Missouri Kansas City
- Missouri State
- Monmouth
- Montana
- Montana State
- Morehead State
- Morgan State
- Mount St. Mary’s
- Murray State
- Navy
- N.C. State
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New Mexico
- New Mexico State
- New Orleans
- Niagara
- NJIT
- Norfolk State
- North Alabama
- North Carolina
- North Carolina A&T
- North Carolina Central
- North Dakota
- North Dakota State
- North Florida
- North Texas
- Northeastern
- Northern Arizona
- Northern Colorado
- Northern Illinois
- Northern Iowa
- Northern Kentucky
- Northwestern
- Northwestern State
- Notre Dame
- Oakland
- Ohio
- Ohio State
- Oklahoma
- Oklahoma State
- Old Dominion
- Omaha
- Oral Roberts
- Oregon
- Oregon State
- Pacific
- Penn State
- Pepperdine
- Pittsburgh
- Portland
- Portland State
- Presbyterian
- Princeton
- Providence
- Purdue
- Purdue Fort Wayne
- Queens
- Quinnipiac
- Radford
- Rhode Island
- Rice
- Richmond
- Rider
- Robert Morris
- Rutgers
- Sacramento State
- Saint Louis
- Sacred Heart
- Saint Mary’s (CA)
- Samford
- Sam Houston
- San Diego
- San Diego State
- San Francisco
- San Jose State
- Santa Clara
- Seattle
- Seton Hall
- Siena
- SIU Edwardsville
- SMU
- South Alabama
- South Carolina
- South Carolina State
- South Dakota
- South Dakota State
- South Florida
- Southeast Missouri State
- Southeastern Louisiana
- Southern
- Southern Illinois
- Southern Indiana
- Southern Mississippi
- Southern Utah
- St. Bonaventure
- St. Francis Brooklyn
- St. Francis (PA)
- St. John’s
- St. Joseph’s
- St. Peter’s
- St. Thomas (MN)
- Stanford
- Stephen F. Austin
- Stetson
- Stonehill
- Stony Brook
- Syracuse
- Tarleton State
- TCU
- Temple
- Tennessee
- Tennessee Martin
- Tennessee State
- Tennessee Tech
- Texas
- Texas A&M
- Texas A&M Commerce
- Texas A&M Corpus Christi
- Texas Arlington
- Texas Rio Grande Valley
- Texas Southern
- Texas State
- Texas Tech
- The Citadel
- Toledo
- Towson
- Troy
- Tulane
- Tulsa
- UAB
- UC Davis
- UCF
- UCLA
- UConn
- UC Irvine
- UC Riverside
- UC San Diego
- UC Santa Barbara
- UMass
- UMass Lowell
- UMBC
- UNC Ashveville
- UNC Greensboro
- UNC WIlmington
- UNLV
- USC
- USC Upstate
- Utah
- Utah State
- Utah Tech
- Utah Valley
- UTEP
- UTSA
- Valparaiso
- Vanderbilt
- Vermont
- Villanova
- Virginia
- Virginia Commonwealth
- Virginia Tech
- VMI
- Wagner
- Wake Forest
- Washington
- Washington State
- Weber State
- West Virginia
- Western Carolina
- Western Kentucky
- Western Illinois
- Western Michigan
- Wichita State
- William & Mary
- Winthrop
- Wisconsin
- Wofford
- Wright State
- Wyoming
- Xavier
- Yale
- Youngstown State