March Madness 2026

[Phall]

I'm not a very good poster on this forum. One thing I can reliably do most years is give a total breakdown of the March Madness teams. I'm going to again try my best to finish miniature write-ups before the tournament starts.

Keep chattering all you want. I have place-holders for each of the four brackets.

 

[Phall]

East Regional


1 Duke
The Blue Devils use only one white player, freshman swingman Nikolas Khamenia. He was a borderline five-star recruit but is just the 7th man on this team. Cameron Boozer is probably the number one pick this year; another generation or two of mating with white women, and the family may have bred the black out of their gene pool.

16 Siena
The Saints are led by sophomore guard Gavin Doty, their leading scorer and rebounder. 7-foot center Riley Mulvey now starts due to injury along with forward Brendan Coyle. This team was turned around quickly by second-year coach Gerry McNamara, a former Syracuse sharpshooter. He’s a longshot candidate for the vacant Orange job.


8 Ohio State
The Buckeyes start German center Christoph Tilly and play three more white players off the bench, notably forward Brandon Noel and Indiana transfer Gabe Cupps. Despite the strong floor presence, the white contingent scores less than 25% of the team points.

9 TCU
The Horned Frogs start one white player: point guard Brock Harding, who leads the team with 5.7 assists and 1.7 steals per game. They play guards Liutaurus Lelevicius and Tanner Toolson more than 20 mpg each, too. TCU is unusual in playing three white guards without a “token white big.”


5 St. John’s
Rick Pitino’s teams have never been white-centric and this season’s Red Storm team is no different. Washington State transfer guard Dylan Darling plays about half the game as a 7th man. There are two other guards from Greece on the deeper bench.

12 Northern Iowa
The Panthers start three white bigs: Tristan Smith, Ben Schwieger, and Will Hornseth. They play a fairly deep bench and use guards Max Weisbrod and RJ Taylor off the bench, along with forward Kyle Pock. They play a slow tempo and will need to defend and rebound very well to have a chance at the upset.


4 Kansas
Bill Self has recruited white blue-chips in the past, but this Jayhawks team doesn’t have any. Freshman swing guard Kohl Rosario plays about 8 inconsequential minutes per game.

13 California Baptist
Seven-foot sophomore Bradley Henige has moved into the starting lineup for the Lancers. He’s the only white player in the rotation and mostly sets picks for his teammates.


6 Louisville
The Cardinals start Virginia transfer Isaac McKneely, who averages 10.5, 3, and 1.5. He’s the only white player apart from the end of the bench.

11 South Florida
The Bulls have a familiar face in Joseph Pinion, who dwelled on an all-black bench at Arkansas for two seasons before building his stock back up with a year at Arkansas State. Pinion averages 14.2, 3.8, 2.3, and hit six three-pointers in the AAC semifinal. He’s the only white player on the team, a key starter but not necessarily the star.


3 Michigan State
The Spartans have a formidable front court with forward Jaxon Kohler and center Carson Cooper combining to average 23+ points and 16+ rebounds per game. They are key starters on a competitive team; however, there is nobody at all behind them.

14 North Dakota State
The Bison are amongst the most disappointing teams in terms of their economic reliance on “imported goods.” Andy Stefonowicz is the starting point guard and leading assist man. Forward Noah Fedderson is the team’s sixth man. They play a couple more whites in bit roles, but this still seems like quite a misrepresentation of the region’s demographics. Dan Majerle’s son Max rides the deep pine.


7 UCLA
The Bruins lost star stretch big Tyler Bilodeau to injury in the Big Ten Tournament, but he is expected to be back this weekend. Bilodeau leads the team with 17.6 ppg and shoots 46% from deep. That’s it for this Mick Cronin squad, although there is a Jewish kid stashed on the deep bench from near my hometown.

10 UCF
We got pretty far down the list without an oh-fer. The Black Knights came ever so close, but the last guy on the end of the bench is freshman guard Zach Johnson, who will surely not see one solitary moment on the court. Black head coach Johnny Dawkins played at Duke in the 80s. While not confirmed, it is possible that he is mad at whites ever since JJ Redick broke his Blue Devils career scoring record.


2 UConn
The Huskies start star forward Alex Karaban, who seems to unfortunately have decreased his draft stock by playing team-friendly basketball with an ensemble cast. Freshman phenom guard Braylon Mullins is barely behind him in racking up stats. Backup center Eric Reibe chips in 15 minutes per game. Head coach Dan Hurley has really reformed his ways after two decades of recruiting only black players, and he should be given credit for going against his family's anti-white legacy of roster selections.

15 Furman
The Paladins are in the Big Dance despite a rather paltry 10-8 record in the Southern Conference. They start Australian center Charles Johnston and swing guard Asa Thomas. Furman plays a pretty even 8-man rotation that also includes guard Tom House and forward Ben Vander Wal. House scored twenty off the bench last week in the conference semi-finals.


UConn leads this group by a head and a mile with an experienced white senior leading his five-star freshman companion into elite territory. Michgan State isn't the worst chalk pick with their two influential white starters. Northern Iowa and Siena are worthy long-shots without much hope.

 

[Phall]

Midwest Regional


1 Michigan
The Wolverines one player of note in Defensive Player of the Year Aday Mara, a 7’3 Spanish unicorn near the top of the nation in blocked shots. Sort of a poor man’s Chet Holmgren at this point in his career. While Mara has had dominant games, there are two other players on the team with at least as much usage rate. Utility forward Will Tschetter had his role reduced this year and is down to spot minutes. New Zealand forward Oscar Goodman doesn’t get off the bench, freshman shooter Winters Grady is “injured” and most assuredly transferring for playing time next year. Coach Dusty May’s son may get off the pine for a couple minutes at the end of the first round game.

16 Howard / UMBC
Howard is an HCBU with a Lithuanian in the rotation (and a Serbian on the bench). University of Maryland, Baltimore County is not an HCBU… but should be! They have a couple token white towel wavers that never play.


8 Georgia
The Bulldogs start third year guard Blue Cain, who is second on the team in points, rebounds, assists, and steals. He’s the only white player save for the very end of the bench.

9 St. Louis
The Billikens’ star player Robbie Avila casts an impressive visage. The dumpy loaf of a forward with goggles and unkempt hair is usually the best player on the court. Avila is nicknamed “Cream Abdul Jabbar,” “Larry Nerd,” and “College Jokic.” St. Louis plays a 9-man rotation that features just one other white, forward Brady Dunlap in a marginal role. All four non-playing bench players are white, a disappointing caste dynamic despite the presence of the celebrity.


5 Texas Tech
The Red Raiders play only black players, making their namesake a real chin-scratcher. Logically, they should be called the Black Raiders. There are two handsome white guards at the end of the bench.

12 Akron
The Zips are a bit better, “starting” guards Bowen Hartman and Zach Halligan. I use the quotations because looking at the box scores from the MAC tournament, Halligan began the last three games on the court and finished with just six, four, and two minutes logged in total. Maybe he is a Tie Domi-style enforcer, sent out to fight the opponents’ best player. Maybe there is some kind of macro error in the school's recording software. Anyway, not a standout squad overall.


4 Alabama
The Crimson Tide wear another inaccurate nickname on their jerseys. Sporting an entire roster of blacks, they should more appropriately be called the “Ebony Tsunami” or the “Obsidian Wave.” There are a couple of whites that travel with the team. Since doing the black players’ homework isn’t even a consideration anymore now that college sports are professional leagues, I choose not to imagine what nefarious rituals they might be made to endure.

13 Hofstra
The Pride have two white players on their roster, both from Minsk, Belarus: starting guard German Plotnikov and unplayed reserve Alex Tsynkevich. The Ruthenian named German seems more Apollonian than Dionysian.


6 Tennessee
The Volunteers have tinkered with using guard J.P. Estrella in the starting lineup. He plays about half the game regardless and had a 20 point performance in the SEC tournament. A dusky Israeli guard named Ethan Burg also plays regularly off the bench.

11 NC State / Texas
The Wolfpack are a total caste clown show led by disgraced former LSU coach Will Wade, who’s been buying black players since before it was cool. They have one white freshman who someone must’ve lied to. The Longhorns sneak into the play-in game with an 18-14 record. They start Lithuanian center Matas Vokietaitis and Purdue transfer forward Camden Heide. Vokietaitis averages a healthy 15.5 and 6.8, narrowly second-best on the team in both marks. Heide isn’t high-usage but can jump through the roof. You can find his highlight dunk reel on Youtube.


3 Virginia
The Cavaliers start three whites. Belgian forward Thijs De Ridder leads the team in points and rebounds, German freshman Johann Grunloh has seen his role increase at center as the season progresses, and Mormon point guard Dallin Hall leads the team in assists and minutes. That’s enough to make coach Ryan Odom’s team a caste favorite. Odom has thus far continued the white racial consciousness that pulses through the lifeblood of the city of Charlottesville. The former UVA coach, late jazz and contemporary pop singer Tony Bennett, looks down on this team from heaven.

14 Wright State
The Raiders start shooting guard Dominic Pangonis and bring freshman forward Kellen Pickett off the bench as the sixth man. I don’t have anything clever to add here.


7 Kentucky
New head coach Mark Pope has really whitened up the Wildcats’ operation by incorporating two white players into the rotation. Starting guard and fellow Mormon Collin Chandler shoots 42% from three. Croatian freshman big Andrija Jelavic plays about fifteen minutes per game off the bench. Not an overwhelming rooting interest here, but miles ahead of Calipari’s Tuskegee Airmen teams. The Kentucky fans aren’t content with a 7 seed though, so Pope may need to make some more portal calls back to Utah this offseason.

10 Santa Clara
The Broncos are a nice story, earning a third at-large bid from the WAC. Their leading scorer, Christian Hammond, is as far as I can tell a “non-white hispanic.” German guard Jake Ensminger starts and Bulgarian freshman guard Sash Gavalyugov plays more than half the game off the bench.


2 Iowa State
The Cyclones are fielding their whitest team in memory this year, starting two whites and playing two more. They’re led by Wisconsin’s own Milan Momcilovic, who averages over 17 ppg. Virginia transfer Blake Buchanan also starts in the front court, senior guard Nate Heise is the sixth man, and German freshman Dominikas Pleta rotates in at center. Again, an 8-man rotation with 4 whites and a white star.

15 Tennessee State
The Tigers are an HBCU with an all-black coaching staff and roster… save for Puerto Rican forward Alex Garcia.


We have some favorable chalk in this region, as Iowa State and Virginia make for easy endorsements. Beyond them, I think it's just Texas and Robbie Avila.

 

[Phall]

South Regional

1 Florida
The Gators are another high-seeded CF rooting interest. Their two best players are potential first round picks: forwards Thomas Haugh and Alex Condon. The 8-man rotation features two more whites off the bench: Slovenian forward Urban Klavzar and backup center Micah Handlogten. Handlogten wears #3 to represent the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Head coach Todd Golden happens to be Jewish, and three members of the coaching staff are also Jewish. I am reasonably sure that makes them the most Jewish coaching staff in college basketball. However, if Bruce Pearl ever returned to the sidelines, he would surely out-Jewish them all on his own.

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8 Clemson
The Tigers are historically a pretty white-friendly outfit. Down somewhat this year, they start forward Carter Welling, who leads the team in rebounds and blocks while being only one of two players to average double digit points. Welling missed time last week with a knee injury but should probably be good to play. Forwards Jake Wahlin, Nick Davidson, and Chase Thompson generally all see time.

9 Iowa
The Hawkeyes are always a CF favorite despite moving on from longtime coach Fran McCaffery. New coach Ben McCollum has kept things consistent. He brought his best player, Bennett Stirtz, with him from Drake. Lo and behold, Stirtz still thrives at the power conference level, averaging 20 points and 4.5 assists as a shoot-first point guard. Forward Cooper Koch joins him in the starting lineup, Spanish forward Alvaro Folgueiras is the sixth man, guard Tate Sage joins him on the second line, and Brendan Hausen spells Stirtz as the backup PG. That’s five whites in a 9-man rotation with a white superstar.


5 Vanderbilt
The Commodores start forward Tyler Nickel, who has previous stops at UNC and Virginia Tech. He averages 13.5 ppg, but he is very lonely on this roster.

12 McNeese
The McNeese Raiders of McNeese State University are an entirely black squad led by white head coach Bill Armstrong. Armstrong was the former associate head coach to Will Wade at LSU, who has led his all-black NC State team to the play-in game. Stinky!


4 Nebraska
The Cornhuskers have been a revelation this year. Head coach Fred Hoiberg won a split of the Big Ten Coach of the Year award on the backs of six white rotation players, including four starters. They are led by Iowa transfer Pryce Sandfort, the leading scorer, forwards Rienk Mast and Braden Frager, and the coach’s son himself, point guard Sam Hoiberg. Turk Berke Buyuktuncel (I’ll allow it) and junior shooting guard Cale Jacobsen both rotate in heavily. Only two blacks flank them in the box score, and they are generally unimportant contributors.

13 Troy
The Trojans are also a very white-friendly squad, making this matchup absolutely tragic (and surely deliberate). They start four white players and bring a fifth off the bench in a tight 7-man rotation. Their deep bench has a bunch of blacks, making this a genuinely inverse caste roster. White Mexican Victor Valdes and Thomas Dowd are the leading scorers, and brothers Cobi and Cooper Campbell run the backcourt for the Trojans. They’re currently 12.5 point underdogs, but if one of our teams goes home early, it’s ideally to these guys.


6 North Carolina
The Tar Heels are no longer the Tar Babies, as black head coach Hubert Davis turned to Europe with his pride on the line. He bribed Estonian center Henri Veesaar away from Arizona and signed freshman Luka Bogavac from Montenegro. Bogavac has a 20 point performance earlier this month, but Veesaar is even more of a star, sporting season highs of 28 and 17. Even better news from a spectating perspective: future lottery pick and team ball-hog Caleb Wilson is out for the season with a broken thumb, placing even more emphasis on the Euro duo.

11 VCU
The Rams are usually very black, and this year is no exception. Their only white player on the entire roster is a Serbian named Djokovic. He’s probably also the best player on the team. Go figure!


3 Illinois
The (non-Indian) Fighting Illini team hasn’t been whiter in what may be decades. Head coach Brad Underwood hasn’t been consistent but also hasn’t put together a better team in his storied career. The lead player is a black freshman, but the rest of the team compliments his success. Older readers will recognize Andrej Stojakovic by his surname, and after a couple of stops, he’s fitting in as a shooter in the mold of his father. This team has a twin pair of 7’2 brothers, Zvonimir and Tomislav Ivisic, who control the paint on defense and aren’t bad in the post, either. David Mirkovic, from Montenegro, rounds out a very tall starting five. This team will dominate most undersides. Sharpshooter Ben Humrichous got enough NIL money to stay on board as a senior shooter and subs in to drains threes in a limited role.

14 Penn
The Quakers have a triumphant Ivy League tourney journey already thanks to former Duke recruit TJ Power. You must google “TJ Power” to see exactly how he put up 44 points in their overtime Ivy League championship win. They have a lot of white players, but I’m sure they will forgive me for omitting them in this preview as the night is late and they’ll get smoked.

7 St. Mary’s
The Gaels have always been the runners-up in the WCC under head coach Randy Bennett, yet the man fields competitive white-friendly teams in the face of the Gonzaga “juggernaut.” Now that Gonzaga is leaving the conference, there is finally talk that Bennett could make this his last hurrah at this mid-card Goliath he’s been so consistent in building as a white-centric program. This year, Lithuanian import Paulius Murauskas is the top dog. Center Andrew McKeever and guard Joshua Dent round up their 3/5 starting line-up. Freshman guard Rory Hawke plays a lot, too.

10 Texas A&M
The Aggies enjoy a starting presence from Spanish guard Ruben Dominguez, very white. Former Kansas Jayhawks castoff Zach Clemence gets a bit of rotational minutes (16ish) on this squad.

2 Houston
The Cougars are an all-black team led by racist head coach Kelvin Sampson. Mr. Sampson has never signed a white player in his entire life as far as I can tell. He inherited one or two whities when he got the job at Indiana, and he didn’t drive them off completely, but he is the most racist coach in America. No white coach could do what he does. He is good at it though, and has a consistent program-winner at Houston. He’s the most evil villain on this forum and must be shown up at all costs (well, through fair play).

15 Idaho
Do we dare? The Vandals are very white, led by swingman Jackson Rasmussen and guard Kolton Mitchell. Could Rowbury, Joba, and Payne plague their adversaries with outlandish shooting? It’s not likely… yet…


This region is probably the sweet one. Florida, Illinois, and Nebraska are all great choices. St. Mary's, Clemson, Iowa, and even Idaho are lively underdogs. Love it man!

 

[Phall]

West Regional:

 

[Freethinker]

Phall, don’t sell yourself short. When you post, it’s often epic, funny or informative. Sometimes all 3. Looking forward to the tournament myself, so if you hit the wall on doing all 4 regions, reach out and I can support.

PS - I’ve been enjoying the Big Ten tournament especially, but posting has been dead in the regular season forum…lot of White talent in that one.

 

[Snow Plow]

Phall is a premier poster on this site and everyone knows it. Enough said.

Big Ten defensive player of the year, Aday Mara, was crucial to Michigan’s wins both Friday and today.

In 30 minutes of action today, he was 7-11 from the field and had 16 points, 8 rebounds, and 5 blocks. He was absolutely dominant inside and will be a star NBA player hopefully when he bulks up like Chet Holmgren.

For Purdue, Australian Oscar Cluff was equally impactful scoring 17 points and grabbing 14 boards in just 28 minutes for Purdue. They also have a 7-4 sophomore Daniel Jacobson who just had 4 points but looked good off the bench and should be a solid player in the next 2 years.

 

[northwinds]

I'm going with a Florida/Arizona final.........

 

[Leonardfan]

I haven't followed college basketball much but did Miami (OH) get into the tournament?

 

[northwinds]

I haven't followed college basketball much but did Miami (OH) get into the tournament?

They put them in one of the 'play-in' games after they went undefeated in the regular season........what a disrespect

 

[Freethinker]

Purdue winning the Big Ten Tournament over a very good Michigan team in the final game of the “regular season” was a good way to end it. They were the first #7 seed to win it, having to win 4 games in 4 days. Smith, Loyer and Cluff were all excellent.

I’m hoping The Boilermakers are peaking again at the right time. Started the year as preseason #1, had a strong start to the season but falter down the strech going 6-7. Now they get a #2 seed and a good a shot as any to get to the final 4.

 

[Leonardfan]

They put them in one of the 'play-in' games after they went undefeated in the regular season........what a disrespect

So much for sports being "meritocracy". Seems like the college basketball committee is just as corrupt as the college football playoff committee.

 

[KnowTheScore]

I am pretty sure Penn starts an all-White starting 5, and they are in the tournament as a 14 seed! They will be taking on Illinois, who is one of our top teams to root for. It seems like this happens a lot when the pairings are made. I think Hawaii and Troy also start 4 Whites.

 

[Freethinker]

I am pretty sure Penn starts an all-White starting 5, and they are in the tournament as a 14 seed! They will be taking on Illinois, who is one of our top teams to root for. It seems like this happens a lot when the pairings are made. I think Hawaii and Troy also start 4 Whites.

Yep, I actually think Penn would be an upset special but they are going against one of the best teams right away. TJ Powers, who stared in the championship game, is a former top recruit who started at Duke. He could be the difference in a single game.

 

[Phall]

@Freethinker @Snow Plow you fellows are very kind to me.

The opening threads preclude me from too much creativity, but I wanted to pop in Penn's TJ Power's performance in the Ivy League championship game. 44 points in the overtime win including this buzzer-beater:


Sometimes, one guy wills his team to a win!

I'll do two more regionals tomorrow (Tuesday) and the last one on Wednesday. I appreciate the commiseration. This one is my labor of love that needs to be done, at least this year.

 

[Freethinker]

Phall, great start with the East region, which I agree is not one of the more interesting ones for us.

I’m all in for UConn. They also have 5-star freshman guard Braylon Mullins, who dealt with an injury and missed a bunch of games. He still managed to be 4th in scoring at 12 per game, right behind Karaban.

 

[Phall]

Phall, great start with the East region, which I agree is not one of the more interesting ones for us.

I’m all in for UConn. They also have 5-star freshman guard Braylon Mullins, who dealt with an injury and missed a bunch of games. He still managed to be 4th in scoring at 12 per game, right behind Karaban.

Thank you for correcting me! I'm quite sure I looked right past him due to his parents having spelled his first name incorrectly. I didn't watch any UConn games this year - Mullins seems like a stud that they lean on pretty heavily. I will amend my write-up!

Edit: it's as if my oversight never existed