San Diego State's aforementioned point win over Colorado State ended up having an equal but opposite reaction for those two teams in the seeding mix. The Rams dropped three seed lines and the Aztecs climbed three seed lines, landing one spot on the overall seed list ahead of the team they just smashed. In other words, no bad losses and only one remotely noteworthy win, which is a resume with "Bubble" written all over it.
By throttling previously unbeaten Colorado State, the Aztecs now have a little bit of breathing room above the cut line. If they were to lose the remaining road games against Colorado State, Fresno State, Boise State and Utah State but take care of business elsewhere, that might be enough for a bid. Alabama isn't exactly fading fast.
Dropping one seed line over a period of three weeks is nothing. It is a decrease, though, and that gives me an opportunity to point out something weird about this resume: The Crimson Tide have not yet played a single Quadrant 4 game, but they did lose to the worst opponent they have faced thus far.
The loss at Missouri this past Saturday was a brutal one for a team that already had questionable losses to Iona, Davidson and Memphis. But Alabama also has marquee wins over Gonzaga, Houston and Tennessee, as well as a nice road win over Florida and a rapidly-gaining-value point neutral-site victory over Miami.
Some teams would be in free-fall mode in projected seeding after a bad loss to Missouri. For Alabama, it was a minor speed bump, thanks to the "insulation" from all those good wins.
And the Crimson Tide could get right back on track for a spot in the top three seed lines with a home win over either Auburn or LSU in the next 10 days.
We've got a tough call for the fourth No. Fellow Pac contender Arizona has better metrics, but just the one Quadrant 1 win at Illinois. So LSU gets the nod for a projected No. The Tigers have four Quadrant 1 wins, two of which vs. Kentucky; vs. Tennessee have come in the past week. Per KenPom , they have the most efficient defense in the country, and it's not all that close.
It's a crying shame that Auburn lost that double-overtime game against Connecticut in the opening round of the Battle 4 Atlantis, or else we could have been treated to a championship showdown between Auburn and Baylor. As is, that thriller against the Huskies is still the only game the Tigers have lost this season, and they have won four straight against Murray State, LSU, South Carolina and Florida by at least a dozen points each.
There's a great big "welcome to basketball season" game for SEC football fans on Tuesday night when Auburn travels to Alabama. A road win in Tuscaloosa would really cement the Tigers as one of the top contenders for the national championship. Gonzaga has played eight games against teams outside the KenPom top , winning each of them by at least 25 points.
Hence the substantial difference between the Zags' Resume metrics and Quality metrics. Baylor is running away with the No. Baylor was tested by Iowa State, Oklahoma and TCU, but beating this team for a full 40 minutes is going to take a special kind of effort. The Bears will very likely suffer at least one loss before the NCAA tournament, but they are the "as long as they don't go ice cold from three-point range" favorite to win it all. In case seeded regions aren't enough and you want to know where the "top" 68 teams stand in relation to one another, here is a list of each team's overall seed, broken down by conference.
First five out teams are included in italics. Duke; North Carolina; Miami; Wake Forest; Louisville; Virginia Tech. Atlantic 10 2 : Davidson; Saint Louis; Baylor; 6. Kansas; Iowa State; Texas; Texas Tech; West Virginia; Oklahoma; Big East 7 : Villanova; Xavier; Seton Hall; Providence; Connecticut; Creighton; What's wrong with the Michigan Wolverines, and is it fixable?
College basketball coaches weigh in The Wolverines began the year as a projected No. Paolo Banchero 24 Pts. Alondes Williams 25 Pts. Minnesota MINN. Max Christie 16 Pts. Eric Curry 19 Pts. Florida FLA. Darius Days 20 Pts.
Colin Castleton 19 Pts. Collin Gillespie 21 Pts. Paul Scruggs 15 Pts. Arlington Baptist ABU. McNeese MCN. Christian Shumate 22 Pts. Trey Ballard 13 Pts. Longwood LONG. Radford RAD. Justin Hill 24 Pts. Bryan Hart 18 Pts. Temple TEM. Tulsa TLSA. Nick Jourdain 23 Pts. Jeriah Horne 15 Pts. Memphis MEM. Darin Green Jr. Tyler Harris 15 Pts.
East Carolina ECU. Cincinnati CIN. Jeremiah Davenport 22 Pts. Vance Jackson 35 Pts. Johni Broome 20 Pts. Darius Simmons 12 Pts. Hampton HAMP. Tyler Maye 14 Pts. Raymond Bethea Jr. Presbyterian PRE. D'Maurian Williams 16 Pts. Rayshon Harrison 21 Pts.
Campbell CAMP. Jordan Whitfield 18 Pts. Tahlik Chavez 17 Pts. Clemson CLEM. Notre Dame ND. Dane Goodwin 21 Pts. PJ Hall 14 Pts. Vermont UVM. Finn Sullivan 19 Pts. Tykei Greene 13 Pts. Albany ALB. Paul Newman 12 Pts. Everette Hammond 13 Pts.
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