Analyzing the Top Seeds' Chances in the National Championship

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00:00I'm sure many people started to fill out their brackets this week, and we're like,

00:03what am I doing ending up with all 4-1 seeds in the Final Four, which has only ever happened

00:09once in the tournament way back in 2008. But the top four seeds, as you see it there,

00:16the four shortest prices to win a national championship. Jason, do you think everybody

00:21on the one line is actually capable of that, cutting down the nets as a national title winner?

00:26Yes, but I also think that a bunch of these teams on the twos are also, like,

00:30this is a ones and twos tournament to me. So as much as I do agree, look, the way Florida

00:35went through the SEC tournament, I think they deserved a better seed. I think they deserved

00:39a higher one. They should have been in a bracket that wasn't murderer's row out of the gate. So,

00:43like, look, some of these teams, I think these ones are really poised. But Michigan State,

00:47when you look at the way that that bracket falls for them, there's a very real possibility,

00:51in my mind, that Michigan State can be playing for a championship. St. John's,

00:54I mean, I'm looking forward to St. John's versus Florida. If we get to that point,

00:58don't sleep on Tennessee, take it on Houston. So I think some of these two seats,

01:01Auburn injury issues make me a little bit more concerned, but I'm pretty comfortable with any

01:06of the ones of the twos. And that makes up most of my elite eight and final four.

01:10Yeah, most people are looking at Jason, that top four and say, because Ben and I have done this

01:14dance all week long saying, my goodness, like, who's going to knock these teams out? So the

01:17simple question for me is, if we look at those top four seeds, Duke, Florida, Auburn and Houston,

01:22to you, who is the most vulnerable seed, number one, to get knocked out first?

01:27Yeah, I think Auburn, just because there are a couple of things that are interesting on Auburn.

01:31They hit a wall at the end of the season. No team in men's basketball history has ever lost three

01:36of their last four and then gone on to win the national championship. But part of that, I think,

01:39is just watch those SEC games. They started to get a little figured out. And Auburn's too old

01:44for that. I love this metric that keeps showing us that Auburn's average age is about the same

01:48as Oklahoma City in the NBA, right? This is an old college basketball team that seems like they

01:53lost their legs towards the end of the season. Doesn't make a lot of sense. As everyone says,

01:57well, it's the SEC and iron sharpens iron. That's just what happens. Okay, well, you're going to get

02:00to the spot here where you're going to have to take on a Michigan team, possibly that won the

02:04Big Ten. I think surprised a lot of people in the way they did that. And then again, a Michigan

02:08State team, like I think this road for Auburn and best case scenario ends against Michigan State.