It shouldn't come as a shock that the other two no-brainers for No. 1 seeds, Kentucky and Syracuse are now the tournament favorites.

However, the events that led up to the tournament suggested that those two teams might be put on the backburner for West Virginia and Ohio State as the top picks after Kansas.

The Mountaineers and Buckeyes won their conference tournaments and looked like great candidates to pick up the final No. 1 seed in the tournament.

West Virginia ended up in Kentucky's bracket and became the trendy pick to reach the Final Four from the East Region.

It was just so easy to pick West Virginia.

Kentucky is inexperienced, inconsistent, and incoherent against a zo...

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