The MadDoc is recuperating from some surgery and I’m battling a cold. Trying to get over it enough to handle the campaign events coming up this week. Can’t be sniffling when you’re recording a TV spot, can you? But, I’ve got a little time to kill this evening in between some campaign prep work, so let’s talk a little college basketball.
It’s been a crazy year and I think there are no certain Final Four contenders. Or, to put it another way, if my top 4 from last week (and this week) were the #1 seeds this year, do they really scare your preferred team? Probably not. From the perspective of a Wildcats fan, I think we can beat anybody and also get upset by more teams than I would like. There are 20 or 30 teams that could get on a roll and win 4 to get to the Final Four.
That said, here’s where I rank them now:
- Gonzaga (21-1)
- Baylor (17-1)
- San Diego State (21-0)
- Florida State (17-2)
- Oregon (17-4)
- Duke (16-3)
- Kansas (16-3)
- Kentucky (15-4)
- Louisville (17-3)
- West Virginia (16-3)
- Dayton (18-2)
- Auburn (17-2)
- Maryland (16-4)
- Michigan State (15-5)
- Villanova (16-3)
- LSU (15-4)
- Penn State (14-5)
- Colorado (16-4)
- Arkansas (15-4)
- Butler (16-4)
- Wichita State (17-3)
- Seton Hall (15-4)
- Iowa (14-5)
- Illinois (15-5)
- Rutgers (15-5)