A slew of losses took a flamethrower to the top 16 seeds revealed by the selection committee just over a week ago. That may sound like hyperbole, but consider that of the top eight seed lines in my projections from last week, 23 of the 32 teams lost at least once. In total, that group of teams dropped 31 games.
Meanwhile, nearly every team around the cut line managed to win over the weekend, making the exercise of projecting the field particularly difficult this week. At this point, there is very little separation among teams across multiple seed lines in the middle of the bracket as well as among the final eight teams I reviewed for the last three at-large spots in the field.