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Re-thinking the 2025 Top Seeds

BamaDude

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Clearly, the NCAA got it right when choosing their top 4 seeds for the men's 2025 basketball tournament, since all four #1's made it to the Final Four, and the regional finals featured 3 #2 seeds & one #3 seed. St. John's was the only #2 seed that failed to make it past the first weekend.

I don't disagree with the Top Four, but I would have seeded them slightly differently. Instead of the top order being:
Auburn
Duke
Houston
Florida;

My seeding would have been:
Florida (30-4, 14-4 SEC) 6-2 vs teams among #1 through #4 seeds, SEC tournament champion, convincing road win at Auburn, and finished the regular season on a 6-0 run.
Duke (31-3, 19-1 ACC) only 2-1 vs high seeds, but did manage a home win over Auburn, won the ACC regular season & tourney championships, and finished on 11-0 run.
Auburn (28-5, 15-3 SEC) won SEC regular season title & went 6-5 vs high seeds, but went 1-3 in their last 4 games, including 1-1 in the SEC tourney.
Houston (30-4, 19-1 Big 12) 4-3 vs #1-#4 seeds, with neutral court losses to Auburn & Alabama, won Big 12 regular & postseason championships.

The women's tourney nearly went chalk, with 3 #1 seeds joined by #2 UConn in the Final Four after the knocked off a short-handed USC team. All four #1's made the regional finals, along with 3 #2's & #3-seed LSU.

Original seeding of #1's looked like this:
UCLA
South Carolina
Texas
USC

My shake-up is a bit different:
USC (28-3, 17-1 Big 10) was 5-2 vs #1-#4 seeds, swept UCLA in regular season to win Big 10 title, finished 9-1 down the stretch to B-10 runner-up spot.
UCLA (30-2, 16-2 Big 10) 6-2 vs high seeds, went 7-2 down the stretch & beat USC for B-10 tourney title.
UConn (31-3, 18-0 Big East) 2-2 vs top seeds, with blowout win at South Carolina, Big East regular & postseason titles.
South Carolina (30-3, 15-1 SEC) 9-3 vs high seeds, split SEC season title w/Texas, then won conference tourney, lost at UCLA and at home vs UConn.

Any comments?
 
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