Very few 7-seeds have made the Final Four and that Round of 32 game with the 2-seed and the almost inevitable showdown with the 1-seed is usually why.

7- Missouri Tigers : 1%įor Mizzou to make the Final Four they’ll have to handle 10-Utah State in the first round and come out of a region with 2-Arizona, 3-Baylor, and 1-Alabama. This one’s an easy one! With State’s narrow loss to Pitt last night they are out of the NCAA Tournament before it’s barely gotten started. Let’s take a look, starting with the lowest odds and going up to the highest. Never before have as many as eight SEC teams made the NCAA Tournament, but in 2023, over half the league heard their name called on Selection Sunday and are on the road to the Final Four in Houston.įiveThirtyEight every year produces a spectacular page showing minute-by-minute every team’s odds of advancing to each round of the Big Dance, and using their odds, I thought it’d be fun to take a look at every SEC team’s odds of making the Final Four right now before the Round of 64 starts.