Picking These 5 High Seeds Could Ruin Your Mar Madness Bracket

Anybody can collect all 4 No. 1 seeds to allege to a Final Four. But if we know March, we know that frequency does a stupidity let that happen. Kentucky, for example, is attempting to go 40-0 and turn a initial undefeated inhabitant champion given Bobby Knight’s Indiana Hoosiers… in 1976.

With that in mind, let’s take a demeanour during a many exposed high seeds in those changed brackets. Don’t forget to check out my five sleepersfive Cinderellas

VILLANOVA

Jay Wright (above) has finished a miraculous pursuit restoring a 32-2 Wildcats to inhabitant prominence. This group has a thoroughness of clever ensure play, toughness and chosen quickness. Last year, we picked ‘Nova to crawl out early and it did. While this group is certainly a higher unit, there’s one critical emanate to consider. In a final 6 years, Wright is usually 2-5 in a dance, and a large reason because is his team’s miss of rebounding. This season, they arrange 174th nationally, a heartless shave done worse by a fact that scoring is during a reward in a NCAA Tournament. Villanova will occupy a suffocating section press that extends full-court. Against peculiarity backcourts with trained guards, that press is reduction effective, and Wright’s group typically struggles with personification opposite size. The East region, with intensity matchups opposite North Carolina State, Northern Iowa, Wyoming, Michigan State and Virginia, presents a litany of issues for a tournament’s second altogether seed.

NOTRE DAME

The Irish are personification their best basketball of a season, uninformed off a initial ACC Tournament pretension in module story (formerly of a Big East). Nothing opposite conduct manager Mike Brey, yet we know his teams typically onslaught in March. Notre Dame’s biggest emanate is bigness itself — a team’s size, or miss thereof. Zach Auguste is atrocious, and while beginner Bonzie Colson has had a good year, he’s usually 6-foot-5. Jerian Grant (above) is a intrepid personality and his do-everything ability (17 points, 7 assists) from a fringe is a outrageous plus. However, Grant shot only 30 percent from 3 in discussion play and is such an constituent partial of a Irish success that one off sharpened diversion becomes unequivocally scary. Interestingly, a final ACC Tournament champion to strech a Elite Eight was Duke, when a Blue Devils won a inhabitant pretension in 2010.

LOUISVILLE

This is Rick Pitino’s softest group in new memory, and creation matters worse is the new exclusion of Chris Jones

Each of a past dual seasons, Louisville ranked second in a republic in forcing turnovers. This year, though, they’ve hovered nearby 40th, vocalization to a miss of toughness we are accustomed to saying from Pitino’s teams. As it is, a Cardinals mislaid 5 of their final 10 games, yet 3 of those 5 wins came by 2 points or less. Over a behind half of a ACC unchanging season, a Cards scored only 0.98 points per possession.

KANSAS

I’ve been approach down on Kansas all year, and zero changes with a startling 2 seed. Aside from a intensity Sweet 16 matchup appearing with Kentucky, Bill Self could be staring a initial weekend dissapoint right in a face. His indicate guard, Frank Mason III, is adequate yet undersized. Combo ensure Wayne Selden Jr. hasn’t done a required stairs in year two. Self’s best interior player, Perry Ellis (above), is not 100 percent healthy, nor is he a legitimate NBA prospect. Self has always had pros to rest on. This Jayhawk group simply doesn’t have a talent to make adult for his muted in-game coaching.

BAYLOR

Staying in a Big 12, Baylor is a 3 seed developed for an upset. Head manager Scott Drew is rarely realistic in contracting his law 1-3-1 matchup zone, and it can be effective given Baylor’s length. The contest is about teams removing hot, though, and a prohibited sharpened group that can widespread out a section presents a outrageous problem. Senior indicate ensure Kenny Chery is a guilt who turns a round over a ton and shoots only 38 percent from a floor. The X-factor for a Bears is 6-foot-7-inch youth wing Taurean Prince (above), a team’s heading scorer during 14 points per game. When Prince plays well, a Baylor offense clicks. When he struggles like he did in going 1-11 opposite Kansas in a Big 12 final, this is a bar that unequivocally struggles to measure in a half court.

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