The college basketball season ended more than three weeks ago. Now, the NBA Draft early-entry deadline has passed. The off-season is moving along.
While there are still players who entered the draft without agents who could return to school, there’s also clarity on guys who were on the fence but elected to make the leap with an agent. Their college careers are over.
ESPN’s resident bracketologist Joe Lunardi has put out an updated NCAA Tournament projection post-early-entry deadline.
Here’s a look at his way-too-early top seeds:
No. 1 seeds
- Duke
- Kansas
- Villanova
- Gonzaga
No. 2 seeds
- Kentucky
- UNC
- Michigan State
- Virginia
No. 3 seeds
- Nevada
- Michigan
- Tennessee
- Auburn
No. 4 seeds
- Syracuse
- Virginia Tech
- Kansas State
- UCLA
No. 5 seeds
- Butler
- Ohio State
- West Virginia
- TCU
No. 6 seeds
- Florida State
- Cincinnati
- Purdue
- Oregon
No. 7 seeds
- Texas Tech
- Clemson
- Florida
- Mississippi State
No. 8 seeds
- LSU
- Xavier
- Houston
- Louisville
You can view the entire NCAA Tournament bracket projection here. There are older versions of the bracket also available.
