Predicting Which High Seeds in 2015 NCAA Tournament Won't Reach 2016 Big Dance

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.

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via IFTTT April 15, 2015 at 12:59PM