The top four seeds in the Midwest Region were stunned in their conference tournaments. Purdue, Tennessee, Creighton, and Kansas were all shockingly eliminated without reaching their conference championship games.
While a few of the teams are sitting right in the middle, hence their seeding, such as South Carolina, Texas, Utah State, and TCU, not everyone in the region fell flat as the first two weeks of March Madness unfolded.
Five teams in this quarter of the bracket won their conference tournaments and are playing their best basketball at the right time.