Bracketology

Quick update on the projected bracket for this year's tournament, courtesy of ESPN's Joe Lunardi. At this point, Kentucky is obviously projected as a no. 1 seed and would play the winner of the tournament's annual play-in game. The other number ones are Syracuse, Texas, and Kansas.

Interesting to note some other teams projected in UK's bracket: (2) Duke, (3) West Virginia, (4) Purdue, and (12) Cincinnati. None of the teams in the bracket are particularly threatening, and I would be happy as long as we don't have to face Syracuse and their 2-3 zone.

The Cats match up well with most of the teams they could face, especially the Blue Devils, who I think would be utterly helpless against Patterson, Cousins, and Orton inside, as well as far too slow to handle our backcourt speed. But I'm looking way too far ahead, and besides, I highly doubt that Duke will 1) end up as a two seed and 2) make it to the Elite 8.