Richey's NCAA seeds: Spartans rising

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Each week until Selection Sunday on March 13, college basketball writer Scott Richey will project the top four seeds for each region in the NCAA tournament:

MIDWEST

1. Kansas

2. Oregon

3. Miami

4. Kentucky

All of the Wildcats’ losses this season — save for falling by six in overtime to Kansas — have kind of been head scratchers. Ohio State? Auburn? Tennessee? Really? But a top-10 offense, top-50 defense and a backcourt of Jamal Murray, Tyler Ulis and Isaiah Briscoe could be remarkably dangerous in March.

EAST

1. Villanova

2. North Carolina

3. Indiana

4. Maryland

What, exactly, is going on with Melo Trimble? The Terps point guard has fallen out of the first…