Our latest projection of the NCAA male basketball tournament support always has a strong presence of the dry. But several Big Ten teams have also started to assert themselves.
The SEC maintains five of the first eight seeds, including three places on line n ° 1. But the Big Ten has now three heads n ° 3 planned with Wisconsin and Michigan who go up to reach Purdue. The state of Michigan also appears in the Top 16, and Maryland climbs to a 5 inch n ° closer to the upper quadrant.
Yes, yes, we know that a Big Ten team has not won everything in a quarter of a century. But more often than not, there is at least one representative of the league in the Final Four. It remains to be seen how real the candidates are, but the new arrivals Oregon and UCLA give even more depth to the league because they remain in the upper half of the planned field.
These two leagues as well as the Big 12 again to obtain the share of the lion of selections of range, but the ACC won a seat at the table this weekend with Wake Forest by returning to the field.
Back at the top: Auburn returns to n ° 1 while the first five are mixed
From top to bottom: Dry, Kansas among weekend winners and losers
Bracketology: NCAA Field Projection Tournament
The last four
Arkansas, state of San Diego, Virginie Commonwealth, Wake Forest.
The first four
Oklahoma, North Carolina, Xavier, Georgia.
The NCAA Tournament Bids Conference Freakdown
Multi-Vélos lecgues: dry (12), Big Ten (10), Big 12 (8), ACC (4), Big East (4), Mountain West (3), Atlantic 10 (2), West Coast (2) .
This article originally appeared on USA Today: Bracketology: The projection of the NCAA tournament support sees Big Ten Rise
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