Selection Sunday – North Carolina St (31) Bid Status: 8-seed in East NC State poses quite a threat for an 8-seed. While they certainly are not nearly as good as Indiana (overall rating of 47 to 31) should they get past
Selection Sunday – Gonzaga (38 out of 50 points) Bid Status: 1-seed in the West A very deserving 1-seed for the west – as they have the fifth best team and trio according to Value Add, and they finished hot,
Selection Sunday – Indiana (47 of 50 points) Bid Status: 1-seed in the East Almost as deserving of the No. 1 overall seed with the best overall team and the best trio that includes two Breitbart Sports 1st team All-Americans
Selection Sunday – Louisville (49 out of 50 points) Bid Status: 1-seed in the Midwest Louisville has the third best trio in the country according to Value Add, but they are MUCH better than that. Peyton Siva is much better
Selection Sunday – Kansas (38) Bid Status: 1-seed in South We look at six factors in tournament teams, and Kansas is in great shape for a Final Four run in all but one. For the season they had the ninth
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Selection Sunday – Virginia (23 out of 50 points) Bid Status: Breitbart Sports and Palm/CBS have them clearly out, but Lunardi has them just missing by one spot. Virginia beat some great teams, but lost to a lot of bad
Selection Sunday – Wichita St (19 of 50 points) Bid Status: In the tournament. Wichita State’s Malcolm Armstead leads a solid, but not overpowering trio, that doesn’t have NBA talent but does have experience that could help them pull off
Selection Sunday – Valparaiso (20 out of 50 points) Bid Status: In the tournament. While Valpo’s Value Add rating is low (15.0), they are a hot team which moved from 75th to 64th in the final month on www.kenpom.com. They
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Selection Sunday – New Mexico (28 of 50 points) Bid Status: In the tournament. Kendall Williams (pictured) leads a solid trio that has New Mexico one of the hottest teams in the country, improving from 34th to 16th in www.kenpom.com in
Selection Sunday – North Carolina (30 of 50 points) Bid Status: In the tournament. Teams with three NBA players often make the Final Four, and as bad as UNC was most of the year, the stars are gearing up and
Selection Sunday – Northwestern St. (15 of 50 points) Bid Status: In the tournament. While they have a decent trio, they actually cooled off the final month of the season before winning the tournament, falling from 128th to 133rd in
Selection Sunday – Ohio St (37 of 50 points) Bid Status: In the tournament. Perhaps the hottest team in the nation coming into Sunday’s Big Ten championship, moving from 13th to sixth in www.kenpom.com in less than a month. With
Selection Sunday – Oregon (19 of 50 points) Bid Status: In the tournament. Value Add has never been that high on Oregon despite their obvious success this year. Certainly it is great to have an absolute star like Arsalan Kazemi,
Selection Sunday – New Mexico St. (17 of 50 points) Bid Status: In the tournament. While one of the weaker teams in the tournament, one of the hottest, and they improved from 102nd to 80th in www.kenpom.com in the last month.
Selection Sunday – Pacific (16 out of 50 points) Bid Status: In the tournament. While they will not have the talent to match up against bigger schools, they are a hot team (improved from 133rd to 121st) full of senior
Selection Sunday – Providence (17 of 50 points) Bid Status: We have them as a long shot, ranked 13 in Middle 20 rankings. Lunardi/ESPN and Palm/CBS give them no chance. As great as Bryce Cotton is, Providence fell badly at
Selection Sunday – Southern (9 of 50 points) Bid Status: In the tournament. Malcolm Miller could start for almost any team in the country, and having two senior guards to get him the ball gives them a nice combination. However,
Selection Sunday – Southern Mississippi (21 of 50 points) Bid Status: We have them just missing,ranked 12 in Middle 20 rankings. Lunardi/ESPN has them where we do – four spots OUT, while Palm/CBS says they are not even that close.
Selection Sunday – St. Louis (23 of 50 points) Bid Status: In the tournament. Dwayne Evans (pictured) leads one of the hottest teams in the country, which had improved from 27th to 17th in www.kenpom.com heading into the Atlantic 10 title game
Selection Sunday – St. Mary’s (23 of 50 points) Bid Status: We have them solidly in, ranked 4 in Middle 20 rankings. Lunardi/ESPN has them strongly in as an 11-seed, and Palm/CBS has them a little weaker than as as
Selection Sunday – Temple (18 of 50 points) Bid Status: We have them in on a close call, ranked 5 in Middle 20 rankings. Lunardi/ESPN and Palm/CBS both are even stronger on them – both saying 10-seeds. Temple is one of the hottest teams, improving
Selection Sunday – Tennessee (18 of 50 points) Bid Status: We have them just missing,ranked 10 in Middle 20 rankings. Lunardi/ESPN has them one spot behind us as the third team OUT, while Palm/CBS has them next to last team
