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The UConnBlog-cketology: February 26th Edition

Here's an updated bracket as we head into a huge weekend of conference battles.

  • UConn is back in Brooklyn, possibly facing Kentucky in a 2014 National Championship rematch. I doubt the actual committee would do this, but it was too fun a possibility to pass up, and did you know that in 2014 UConn won both the men's and women's basketball national cha-
  • Kansas is my new overall #1, followed by Oklahoma. I'm a Villanova skeptic; ignore the recent NCAA Tournament struggles, how about the fact that Xavier joins Oklahoma and Virginia as top-2 seeds that have comfortably beaten the Wildcats this season?
  • Its a loaded 2 line of Xavier/Michigan State/Kentucky/Virginia. Any of the four could be 1-seeds two weeks from Sunday.
  • Providence has dropped all the way to my last team in. When your only two wins in the past few weeks are "Georgetown at home" and "Georgetown away"...yeah. Gonna need to see better performances from the Fighting Dunns to move them up. Seton Hall is rising through the field as well, including their solid win over PC this week.
  • Due to a procedural move, one of the First Four at-large games is for an 11 seed and the other is for a 12-seed. Yes, the committee can do this. The reason I did it is because one game has to be at a Thursday First Round site and the other has to be at a Friday First Round site. As it was, all of my First Round sites were Thursday locales and I'm not going to mess around with the subreigonals of good teams to fit these four crap teams.
  • THE DREAM OF A FOUR-BID AMERICON IS VERY MUCH ALIVE! Tulsa has very good standing in the metrics and their wins over Cincy and Temple (who they DEMOLISHED) have roared them into the Top 40 of KenPom. Not only is Tulsa no longer a "bad loss" for the Huskies (in theory), but the win at Gampel is now a Top-50 win. The AAC actually PAYING A BENEFIT IN BASKETBALL! It won't last...but for now, with Temple, the weakest of the four, in as an autobid...4 bids for #AmericanRising
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