It's March, It's Pure Madness

It's Time! March Madness has arrived. 64 of the best teams in College Basketball all fighting for the same goal, a national championship. All this is going to lead to a crazy month of upsets and more in a fantastic stretch of basketball. So Here's some of what you need to know going into the tournament.

If your a fan of SEC basketball, then this is your year, as the conference is sending FOURTEEN teams. That broke the Big East record of 11 set in 2011. So that has the best odds of a conference winning a title. But they aren't the only conference with multiple schools in the dance. Big Ten sent eight schools, Big 12 sent seven schools,  Big East sent five, the ACC and Mountain West sent four schools and the West Coast sent two schools. Every other conference sent one school for the dance.

If you got a #1 seed, getting to the elite eight isn't a lock. All four #1 seeds have made the elite eight just once in the last fourteen years. So if your Duke, Florida, Auburn and Houston, you got your work cut out for you this tournament. There's only one time in the history of this tournament that an elite eight has not had a #1 seed, that was back in 2023. For the final four, 2008 was the ONLY year, which is really hard to believe, that all four of the top seeds made it that far.

How confident are you in who going into this dance. Well, out of the top seeds, the one I have the MOST confidence in going into this is Duke making it to at least the final four. There's nobody in that East region with Duke that, at least on paper, scares me as being the team to knock them off. Alabama maybe the closest team to challenge them out of there, but even that might be pushing it,

Of the other three top seeds, Houston is the one I have the least faith in to come out of their region. Why? Because both Tennessee, Kentucky and maybe Clemson seem like they have the best odds to knock off Houston to come out of the Midwest. The other two schools I could really see throwing a monkey wrench in the top seeds plans, would be St Johns in the West and maybe Michigan State in the South.

These are just some thoughts to look at as we get ready for the dance. Final four from where I set are as follows: Duke, St Johns, Auburn and Tennessee. National Championship game will be Duke taking down St Johns.