1. How much do you weigh momentum (or lack there of) for teams going into the tourny when picking winners in matchups?
2. Which teams that have momentum going into the tournament (e.g. NC State, Iowa State, Auburn, Illinois,....) do you think will fall flat and bust early the tourny? Or, in general what consensus favorites do you see we should scratch from the list and why?
3. Teams that lost their first game in their conference tourny subsequently have never won the NCAA tournament that year. We have Duke, Kansas, Tennessee, and Kentucky all fall into that category. Any thoughts on ruling these teams out from a title?