Bracket Watch: The incredible shrinking ACC
The storied league has only three bids in this week's field of 68, while the Mountain West has five.
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For those without a subscription, the blurb on Auburn is:
• We’re sticking with the same four No. 1 seeds this week, but UConn moves to No. 2 overall. Kansas remains on the No. 2 line, but its metrics are inching closer toward the profile of a No. 1. The hardest call this week was the final No. 2 seed. We settled on a controversial choice: Auburn, which has no Quad 1 wins but has been utterly dominant. The metrics are elite: fourth in KenPom, sixth in BPI, seventh in the NET. The big wins, we believe, are coming soon.
It sends us out West, but I'll take it especially since it would have the first and second round in Memphis: