Certain NCAA Basketball title contenders are known to be legitimate, but which top teams with question marks can you believe in? Buy or sell these four high seeds.
The NCAA Basketball Tournament often isn’t remembered for its purpose of declaring a national champion.
The weeks leading up to the Big Dance are all about bubble teams and who may or may not be included in the field, and then much of the tournament itself is headlined by upsets, underdogs, and Cinderella’s.
But a national champion is what we are here for and, despite all the parity in college basketball this year, there is only a select group of top teams that are capable of winning a title.
Duke is the most talented team in the country when they’re healthy and Kentucky isn’t far behind. North Carolina may not be, either, especially considering the fact that they’ve won 14 of their last 15 games and just swept the Blue Devils.
The other teams in that mix all have question marks surrounding their candidacy. Is Gonzaga really that good after playing WCC competition? Can Virginia shake their March woes? What are we to make of Tennessee’s recent struggles? And is Texas Tech really in this tier?
We break down whether those four teams are legitimate national championship contenders or not in this edition of Buy or Sell.