While Palm focused only on the bubble and not the overall bracket, both Lunardi and Bennett had full projections for the 68-team field. And the two were in lockstep agreement about the four schools slotted in as the No. 1 seeds.
Chances are, Palm would be in agreement on at least three of them, too: Purdue, UConn and Houston. Those three teams are hold the top three spots in both NET Rankings and KenPom. They all finished the regular season with identical 28-3 records, and all nine of their collective losses came against Quad 1 opponents.
The final top seed for Lunardi and Bennett is Tennessee, which lands fifth on both the NET Rankings and KenPom. Bennett has Arizona, Tennessee and North Carolina vying for that spot, but he knocked out Arizona for its losses to Oregon State, Stanford and USC and picked Tennessee over North Carolina for having, in his opinion “the better wins, better resume average and (playing) in a tougher conference.”
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