[ABEHONEST]

ARIZONA?
ESPN predicts the best possible routes of the 4#1 seeds for all-4 top seeds. And, Arizona, from what I can see, has the best/easiest trip by far?
The question: Is ESPN noted for the historical accuracy of picking the top 4-seeds most likely route to the Final Four?

Updated yesterday:

SOUTH (SAN ANTONIO)
WINNER goes to NEW ORLEANS

At San Diego
aq - Arizona
16
aq - UNC Wilmington

8
Seton Hall
9
Wyoming
PITTSBURGH
5
Texas
12

aq - South Dakota St.
4

Illinois
13
aq - Chattanooga
MILWAUKEE
6

Iowa
11

North Carolina
3

Tennessee
14

aq - Northern Iowa
FORT WORTH
7
aq - Boise St.
10
Rutgers
2
Baylor
15
aq - Long Beach St.


WEST (SAN FRANCISCO)
WINNER goes to NEW ORLEANS

At Portland
1
Gonzaga - aq
16
Texas Southern - aq


New Orleans - aq
8
Colorado St.
9

Miami
BUFFALO
5
UConn
12
Iona - aq
4

Ohio State
13
Toledo - aq
SAN DIEGO
6
USC
11

Davidson - aq
3

Texas Tech
14
Texas St. - aq
GREENVILLE
7

Michigan St.
10

Creighton
2

Duke - aq
15

Yale - aq


EAST (PHILADELPHIA)
WINNER goes to NEW ORLEANS


At Greenville
1
Auburn - aq
16
Longwood
/
Norfolk St.
8

Xavier
9
Notre Dame
BUFFALO
5

Houston - aq
12

San Francisco
/
Indiana
4
UCLA
13
Vermont - aq
PITTSBURGH
6
LSU
11
Loyola Chicago
/
Memphis
3
Villanova
14
Wagner - aq
INDIANAPOLIS
7

Iowa State
10

Wake Forest
2
Purdue - aq
15
Colgate - aq


MIDWEST (CHICAGO)

At Fort Worth
1
aq - Kansas
16
aq - Cleveland St.

8
Saint Mary's
9
aq - Murray St.
MILWAUKEE
5
Alabama
12
aq - North Texas
4
aq - Providence
13

aq - New Mexico St.
PORTLAND
6
Arkansas
11

TCU
3
Wisconsin
14

aq - Montana St.
INDIANAPOLIS
7
Marquette
10

Michigan
2
Kentucky
15
aq - Jacksonville St.

THE FINAL EIGHT:
Sweet 16/Elite Eight March 24 and 26 San Antonio, Texas AT&T Center
Sweet 16/Elite Eight March 24 and 26 San Francisco, California Chase Center
Sweet 16/Elite Eight March 25 and 27 Chicago, Illinois United Center
Sweet 16/Elite Eight March 25 and 27 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Wells Fargo Center
**
THE FINAL FOUR: New Orleans Caesars Superdome April 2 & 4

[ABEHONEST]

Well, looks like I have managed to jinx another top 5-team?
Losing major tonight.
If anyone needs a jinx, just let me know?

[Wrongside]

No, but I have no clue why you filled out bracket like that, as though any of that will happen, especially not the lower seeds…

[ABEHONEST]

Not me, Son.
This came from ESPN'S professional bracket prospectors.
Here's an update concerning a brand new look at the next possible bracket matchups.

*The final Saturday in February turned out to be a historic day in college basketball. Each of the top six teams in the AP Top 25 lost, the first time that has ever happened on a single day in the history of the poll. A total of seven members of the AP top 10 fell, also a single-day record.

What does it mean from a Bracketology perspective? Well, imagine an NFL weekend in which every game ends in a tie. No team would lose or gain an inch in the standings. That's what happened in college basketball on Saturday.

We ended almost exactly where we started. The top three teams on the morning seed list -- Gonzaga, Arizona and Kansas -- all lost major road games in hostile environments. Three of the teams in the best position to supplant them -- Kentucky, Purdue and Texas Tech -- suffered the same fate. At the end of the carnage, Baylor was the only top-10 team to improve its seed. The Bears began the day sixth overall and ended up fourth overall. That gives the defending NCAA champions the final 1-seed. Just don't write it in ink. Baylor visits Texas on Big Monday.

[SamsNCharge99]

Duke taking over now that 1-6 all lost

[DrunkHorseplayer]

The tournament is wide open this year, 10-15 teams could win. I wouldn't put any PAC-12 team in the final four.

[stake1]

Fade the pac12

[ABEHONEST]

Not according to these overrated, ESPN professions? This ESPN, dominating sports corporation, is a billionaire business, yet, they flood you with online commercials, much like Hitchcock's Bird movie. You have to fight them constantly, trying to mute them or just trying to escape them.

They are also not too brilliant with their ideas of a solid 64-team bracket.
They say Duke will only move up one notch with their bracket predictions, moving only a notch over Purdue, another unimpressive ranked team yesterday.

I'll have to disagree with that prediction.

Who's going to win the championship now?
It's back to the proverbial Turkeyshoot all over again.

[stake1]

Purdue cannot win close games away from home. so they will be another excellent fade in the tournament

[ABEHONEST]

Purdue cannot win close games away from home. so they will be another excellent fade in the tournament

Stake, give me one team we can rely on in the coming "Ides Of March?"

[ABEHONEST]

This: According to ESPN"S darling, Lunardi, Baylor will now move up to the top line, and Gonzaga, Arizona, Kansas, preserves their top seeds, despite their defeats, per Lunardi's bracket.
Hmm.

[docholiday]

Arizona can not beat Tennessee. Tennessee would win that bracket.

[stake1]

Abe I think Kentucky and the Zags are both headed to the elite 8. depending on the brackets and how they layout in a couple weeks, I think Uconn is very dangerous. they have depth and can beat teams a number of ways

[ABEHONEST]

Abe I think Kentucky and the Zags are both headed to the elite 8. depending on the brackets and how they layout in a couple weeks, I think Uconn is very dangerous. they have depth and can beat teams a number of ways

Gotta have that big man making baskets and playing defense. Gonz, looks to me, they may have taken a fatal potion last night?

[d2bets]

The tournament is wide open this year, 10-15 teams could win. I wouldn't put any PAC-12 team in the final four.

More that that. It's going to be cinderella year.