NBK Update: Championship Week Tuesday

We didn’t lose anyone last night, and we are up to 2 Locks and 4 Should be ins. KenPom finished doing all his Conference Tourney Odds on his Substack.

MONDAY RECAP

  • (3 seed) Santa Clara beat (2) Saint Mary’s in the WCC semifinal. This is by far the best Broncos team in the KenPom Era (some people are now calling this the Play-by-Play Data Era but that’s not as fun) and we’ll see if they can beat might Gonzaga once before the Zags join up with much of the current Mountain West to form the new Pac 12 in 2027.
  • (3) Hofstra outlasted (7) Towson 68-65 in OT in the Coastal semifinal, struggling through a terrible shooting night through regulation before getting hot in the extra period. Towson’s Tyler Tejada played all 45 minutes and went for 29 points and 7 rebounds, earning KenPom game MVP honors in the losing effort.

COMING UP….

TUESDAY

  • (3) Hofstra (73% chance of winning per KenPom) vs (4) Monmouth in the Coastal FINAL
  • (3) Santa Clara (30%) vs (1) Gonzaga in the West Coast FINAL
  • (1) Stephen F. Austin (72%) vs (4) Texas A&M-Corpus Christi in one Southland semifinal
  • (2) McNeese (76%) vs (3) UT Rio Grande Valley in the other Southland semifinal
  • (11) SMU (68%) vs (14) Syracuse – ACC first round
ESPN Bubble Watch & KenPom Rank through games of 3/9. ESPN Bracketology updated 3/9/26, 9:15pm ET . Rank in Conf is NOT the team’s place in the standings, but rather the team’s KenPom Rank in the conference – this is why many of our NBK squads are listed as #1 yet are not in the current ESPN Bracketology. Conf Odds are from KenPom’s Substack unless and until the team gets to the conference tournament final, when we instead use their odds of winning the final per KenPom (see * for Santa Clara & Hofstra above).

Data courtesy Kenpom.com , ESPN Bracketology, ESPN Bubble Watch and Ken Pomeroy’s Substack