NCAA Tournament Bracket Watch 2025: Teams with the most and the least to win this week

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Drake’s in, so we can abandon the arguments about whether the Bulldogs of Ben McCollum would have made the field of 68 without winning the Tourney of Missouri Valley (they would probably not have), save follow-up discussions about the plight situation of the mid-ma year and tournament with dreak expansion in another day.

Lipscomb is also inside. And High Point. And siu-edwardsville. And Omaha. With the Sun Belt and Southern Conference planned to produce Champions on Monday. And during the week we go, in power conference tournaments and end in selection on Sunday. The teams that play for those automatic bids and the great hopeful bubble, this week of course have the most on the game control this week on regular updates at the Bubble watch of Jim Root.

But what about the deployment in safe parts of the bracket? Here are five teams that have a lot to win in their conference tournaments and five that don’t.

Five to go fast this week

Florida: I have Florida as the last number 1 seed after a huge victory in Alabama, and a number 1 seed is just worth guaranteeing Auburn/Duke. Although I am not sure whether Florida should worry about avoiding someone, the way the gatos play.

Alabama: It is so close between Florida and Alabama. If things go like this bracket unfolded, it wouldn’t do much, because general seed no. 4 and no. 5 general seed was shipped together to the west. But it doesn’t have to unfold that way. The only clear rule is that number 5 in general cannot be with number 1.

Tennessee: It is also so close between Alabama and Tennessee. These three seem to fight for one place because Houston is in the direction of number 1 locking status. But it is worthwhile to be a higher no. 2 than Alabama – that is now the difference between starting in Lexington or Cleveland.

Wisconsin: The ties must get their swagger back. A number 3 seed is also still very feasible and worth striving.

UConn: The Husky’s must keep Momentum. And take it out to have to play in an 8/9 game.

Five who are better off to save and rest

Chestnut: Two straight losses have not changed that this is the clear best CV in the sport. You are downright SEC champions. Instead of beating yourself up for more than three days, everyone tells you that your bus broke and the left only from Johni Broome to get some rest.

Duke: I think the general seed of number 1 can be reached. But what? Duke will be a number 1 seed with a Raleigh-Newark path. Auburn will be a number 1 seed with a Lexington atlanta path. This week is nothing but exposure to injuries.

Michigan State: I don’t see the Spartans cracking the top line – although they can be intrusive! I also don’t see how they fall on a seed of number 3. Another downright champion that does not need the hassle.

St. John’s: A start in providence must be insured with a seed of no. 3. So instead of going all the way for a number 2, do you perhaps take a few thousand photos up?

Houston: Ok, go hard for one win, just to be sure on that number 1 seed.

We are back on Thursday with a new bracket, and then it is every day until the big day.

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