We have officially entered into one of my favorite stretches of the season! February is the month where we get some of the highest levels of basketball we'll see all season, as tournament bids solidify, bubbles burst, and the cream of the crop rises to the forefront. Plus, we get a better idea of where the Duke basketball team stands.
Delineating between the "contenders" and the "pretenders" in college basketball is often difficult, due to the small margin for error that the NCAA Tournament allows, but to narrow the field I sought to assess the linkages — or historical indicators — to past NCAA National Champions and compare them to the current 2020 field.