Five consecutive victories, crowned by Tuesday evening victory at home against Purdue, sent Michigan to the top of Big Ten and pushed the Wolverines on line n ° 4 of our fork by projecting the field of the NCAA male tournament.
After having directed Florida Atlantic to the consecutive places of the tournament and an appearance in the final two seasons ago, Dusty May has already equaled the record for the Big Ten’s victories for a first year coach. Wolverines are half a game in front of Purdue before Sunday’s trip to Ohio State.
Michigan has a chance to continue to scale the tournament scale – or drop a few levels before the start of Mars’ madness.
Six of the last seven Wolverine games before the Big Ten tournament came against the teams currently in our tranche. Two of these clashes came against the rival state of Michigan. They also play Nebraska on the road and welcome Illinois and Maryland.
Connecticut’s victory this week at Creighton – Dan Hurley would like to remind us that he has two rings, by the way – move the Huskies to line n ° 7, replacing the state of the Mississippi. The Bulldogs fall to a seeded n ° 8 in the middle of six defeats in nine games, more recently at home in Florida.
Two new teams join the support. One is the Arkansas of John Calipari, winners of three of the four. The razorbacks are up to n ° 41 in the net ranking. The second is Brigham Young. The cougars won in Virginie-Western Tuesday and will face the Kansas State on Saturday in a match with major implications in Bulles.
And it is a ugly support for extremely high ACC. After sending nine teams to March Madness a year ago, the league has only three teams in the planned field: Duke n ° 1, n ° 7 Louisville and n ° 7 Clemson. The last time the ACC had less than four teams in the support was 2000.
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The last four
San Diego state, Virginie Commonwealth, Brigham Young, Arkansas.
The first four
Georgie, SMU, Kansas State, Villanova.
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This article originally appeared on USA Today: Bracketology: Michigan increases in the projection of NCAA tournament support
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