#1 VILLANOVA
Coach Jay Wright is a favorite of many on
the Insanity Report Staff! They play
defense and offer size and physicality at all positions while being able to
rain three’s at opportune times. 5th year Senior, Jayvaughn Pinkston
is a massive post player at 260 lbs. but slightly undersized at 6-9. If he
stays outta foul trouble he will light some forwards up! ‘Nova has a great
mixture of youth and vets and had a solid year in the upstart Big East. Is this
the year Jay Wright gets back to the Final 4?
#16 LAFAYETTE
La-good-luck!
#8 NC STATE vs. #9 LSU
2 middle of the pack teams in 2 power
conferences. Flip yer coin on this one!
#5 NORTHERN IOWA
Don’t sleep on these sleepers! They go 10
deep many games! Chalk full of seniors and
are a typical mid-major sleeper that prides itself on defense and
possession basketball
#5 WYOMING
Surprised many to take the Mountain West
tourney and bump a bubble team from being selected into the Madness. Watch out
for big man Larry Nance Jr., says Insanity Report Sabermetrician, D$!
#4 LOUISVILLE
They had a great run the past couple years,
but Russdiculous Smith is long gone as
is great PG Peyton Siva. All Rick Pitino teams need great guard play and when
Louisville loses their mercurial PG Chris Jones to suspension, then this
doesn’t bode well for the Cardinals. Guard Terry Rozier can flat out score and
forward Montrezl Harrell could take over games…in November. He seems to have
peaked too early this season. Coach Rick Pitino has done more with less, but
they still need to pick it up
#13 UC-IRVINE
First time ever in the Madness for this Big
West Conference Champion
#6 PROVIDENCE
Bar none the best back court that no one
knows about in Kris Dunn and LaDontae Henson. They have some size to compliment
this dangerous backcourt. Big sleeper pick here
#11 DAYTON/BOISE STATE
Dayton gets to play an extremely rare home
game in this play-in game vs. Boise State. Many experts say that Dayton
should’ve been a higher seed, so Boise State is in tough vs. a Dayton Flyer
squad with Madness experience last year and a 16-0 home record this year. Sorry
D!
#3 OKLAHOMA
The metrics like Oklahoma, but I haven’t
seen much of this team. Lon Kruger has rebuilt another big name program from
obscurity back to respectability
#14 ALBANY
Know less of these kats
#7 MICHIGAN STATE
Never ever sleep on the Izzo! Coach Tom
Izzo has the Spartans peaking at tourney time once again with an inferior,
overachieving line up led by Brandon Dawson and gamer, Travis Trice
#10 GEORGIA
No clue how they got into the tourney. Izzo
is licking his chops!
#2 VIRGINIA
The best defensive team in NCAA since
Wreck-it Ralph Sampson was swatting shots 20 rows deep for UVa in the early
80’s! They play all the tight defensive principles that all coaches love, but
they also strip the ball 5-6 times a game as the best 1-on-1 defensing team
since Michael Jordan in Nintendo’s Bird vs. Jordan!
#15 BELMONT
Historically a team that can rain treys
illicit upsets in the Madness, but they are in for a world of hurt vs. Virginia’s
defense
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