You think the NCAA tournament goes fast? The rest of April seems to flash by even quicker.
It goes from “One Shining Moment” to a bunch of coaches swapping schools and players either doing the same or moving on to the NBA. And all of a sudden we’re examining the 2016 NCAA field.
You say too soon, but we say why not? The beauty of it is the tournament isn ’t a career recognition award. A bid must be earned every year. Not even highly seeded teams, like No. 6 and above, are a sure thing the following season, as we’ll examine.
Billy Donovan’s Florida teams won back-to-back championships, and then the Gators had to muddle through the NIT the following season (2008). John Calipari even had to take the same detour at Kentucky a year after winning the 2012 title.
Here’s a list of teams that will be on an upset alert of not getting back to experience the madness of March. Sometimes it’s because of losing a lot of talent or a star player. A few cases, we’ll admit, could be considered flat-out trolling, though there are reasons to be skeptical of some ongoing success rates.
But no team should consider itself safe. Here’s a slideshow of the highest at-risk teams for next season.
from Bleacher Report http://ift.tt/1FLZlE0
via IFTTT April 15, 2015 at 12:59PM
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