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Picking favorites is harder than ever.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Byline: Wendell Barnhouse
March Madness officially began Monday. Conference tournaments are starting this week, the NCAA bracket will be announced in less than two weeks (March 14) and we're five weeks away from the national championship game in San Antonio's Alamodome.
For this year's tournament, it's the same song, same verse. The rule limiting teams to 13 scholarships, plus the early departure of top players to the NBA, has made more teams equal and fewer teams superior.
Even with two teams still undefeated, picking a clear-cut favorite is more suited to a game of blind dart throwing. Saint Joseph's and Stanford are just a few victories from entering the NCAA Tournament undefeated (the last team to do that was Nevada-Las Vegas in 1991).
As the bracket starts to take shape with the first automatic bids awarded this weekend, making the 65-team field will be the usual late-season scramble.
There are about 75 teams in the running for the 65 NCAA Tournament spots (counting the 31 automatic qualifiers). Unless there are some upsets in a few mid-major conference tournaments _ the Missouri Valley, ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Picking favorites is harder than ever.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)