Dry, kansas say

The head of the first 16 top 16s of the male basketball committee in division I is a roadmap of the NCAA male tournament directly from the source. A year ago, the Committee’s season list nailed all the tops of the tournament, except two, which, except two, lacked in Creighton and Kentucky.

Although there is still enough time in the regular season for this projection of the first boxes to collapse before the selection on Sunday, the 16 best series heads of this year published on Saturday indicate some subtle and not so subtle ways that the Committee approaches the Selection process.

An obvious point to remember of the Top 16 is the affinity of the committee for several major conferences and the lack of affection for an alleged basketball conference in particular-ACC, as we will approach below.

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Here are the greatest winners and losers in the ranking in season:

Winners

Dry

As expected, the conference dominated the top 16 with six teams, including five of the first six. The list is at the top of Auburn, the best seeded seeded thanks to a decrease of 13 division I victories against the Quad 1. SEC teams to two other seeds n ° 1 planned in Alabama and Florida. With so many teams that were to land on the first four lines, you can see why this year’s dry is on the right track to dominate March Madness and potentially have several teams deep in the Final Four. And the classification of the Committee does not include seven other teams planned to reach the tournament in our last range. You are starting to see why this year’s dry is already speaking in a historical context.

Kansas

Classified n ° 15 in total by the committee, the Kansas should benefit from the benefit of the Committee of doubt despite the fifth ranking in the Big 12 ranking, four games behind Houston and having a record of lost in matches against another Quad 1. Jayhawks have very good victories in the state of Michigan, Duke and Iowa State. They also lost championship matches against Virginia-Western and Kansas State and have a 3-5 file in total in the road matches. Ku avoided any bad defeat, however, the seven defeats against the teams currently planned for the tournament. It is probably the biggest asset of the favor of the Jayhawks.

Michigan

The Wolverines were on a tear under the new coach Dusty May, taking five in a row and six of the seven to lead a half match in front of Purdue and first in the Big Ten. The committee is careful: Michigan is a seeded n ° 4 in the ranking in season, by ahead of the rival state of Michigan. The references in the Wolverine playoffs are polished by a brand of 6-3 in the Quad I matches and a 5-2 file far from their home. Five of the last eight of Michigan games before the conference tournament intervened at home, although the three games on the road is against tournament teams planned in Ohio State, Nebraska and Michigan State.

Losers

ACC

With just the seeded n ° 1, representing the conference in the top 16, the rankings reflect the perception of the ACC committee as several levels below the dry, Big 12 and Big Ten. Although this does not prevent Blue Devils from landing on line n ° 1 If they continue to dominate the game of the League, the ACC is nothing of the depth that these three rival conferences will lead to the madness of the madness of March. From now on, the only ACC teams planned to join Duke in a tournament are Louisville and Clemson.

Michigan state

A recent slide dropped Michigan State on the Big Ten scale and out of the four main lines. After defeating the minnesota to end in January, the Spartans were seated at 18-2 in total and possibly in the running for a seeded n ° 1 if they had continued to put a certain distance between them and the rest of the level superior of the big ten. But the state of Michigan has lost three of the four this month, including defeats against non-tournish teams in southern California and Indiana. With a brutal section in front – Illinois, Purdue, Michigan, Maryland, Wisconsin, Iowa and Michigan – things could get worse while we are heading for the selection on Sunday.

This article originally appeared on USA Today: Seeds of the NCAA tournament: dry, kansas lead, losers