Well, now it gets interesting.
It’s at this point in the NCAA tournament that things generally stop making sense. The original seeds still carry weight for the teams that have survived — they give us the full picture about a team’s season thus far. But what do you do with the surprises in the field?
That’s what makes reseeding the Sweet 16 far more difficult than reseeding the second round. In the 2022 edition, Baylor, Kentucky and Auburn have all been eliminated. But Michigan, North Carolina, Miami and Saint Peter’s have survived.
At this point, the reseed centers more on how far a team can go than where it started. The top of the list will look familiar, but the rest is admittedly chaotic, and the rankings reflect as much. We like UCLA, but is Jaime Jaquez Jr. going to be healthy enough to play in the Sweet 16? How much should we care about North Carolina squandering a 25-point lead…
