NCAA Tournament bracket fever is currently gripping the nation as college basketball crescendoes into the month of March despite a virus that keeps trying to play spoiler. As the regular season inches towards its completion, the postseason hot stove continues to heat up, and fortunately for the Florida Gators, they are in the thick of the conversation this year despite a trio of pauses in action for the program.
On Tuesday, Sports Illustrated published its latest bracketology projections for the 2021 NCAA Tournament, with UF sitting in the No. 8 seed for the Baylor Region, which is headed by the overall No. 2-ranked Baylor Bears. Florida would face the No. 9 San Diego State Aztecs in the first round in this hypothetical, and shares this region with their Southeastern Conference foes the fourth-seeded Tennessee Volunteers and sixth-seeded Missouri Tigers.
Here is a look at how that quarter of the overall NCAA Tournament bracket looks according to Si’s Kevin Sweeney.
Baylor Region:
No. 1 Baylor* vs. No. 16 Mount St. Mary’s*/Prairie View A&M*
No. 8 Florida vs. No. 9 San Diego State
No. 5 Kansas* vs. No. 12 UConn/Maryland
No. 4 Tennessee vs. No. 13 Winthrop*
No. 6 Missouri vs. No. 11 North Carolina/Drake
No. 3 Iowa vs. No. 14 Liberty*
No. 7 Virginia Tech vs. No. 10 Boise State
No. 2 Illinois vs. No. 15 Grand Canyon*
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