This Year’s NCAA Men’s Contenders Are Weirdly Weak. Will That Mean More Tourney Upsets?

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This Year’s NCAA Men’s Contenders Are Weirdly Weak. Will That Mean More Tourney Upsets?
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Glance at the top of Ken Pomeroy’s adjusted efficiency rankings, and the 2019-20 men’s college basketball season might not seem so weird. Kansas at No. 1? That’…

than we would expect based on where they were seeded — and not by a small amount, either. Although we don’t necessarily know what will happen in an NCAA Tournament so overloaded with teams climbing up from obscurity, it’s a factor that could add even more madness to the usual March spectacle.

Also piling onto the potential chaos — and perhaps feeding the rise of this year’s less-heralded contenders, too — has been theof the top teams. With a KenPom adjusted efficiency margin of 30.8, Kansas could be one of the weakest statistical No. 1s going into an NCAA Tournament since 2002. But the Jayhawks are just the tip of the iceberg.

Combine a bunch of weaker-than-usual top teams with a good number of them also lacking any preseason hype, and we could have the perfect recipe for one of the wackiest men’s tournaments in recent memory. Maybe that means we’ll see

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