Crunching the numbers at the beginning of the week yielded an interesting NCAA Tournament path for the Kentucky Wildcats.
Going by Monday morning’s updated projections on BracketMatrix.com — a website that ranks teams from a composite of several different Bracketology boards — and applying the NCAA Selection Committee’s seeding and bracketing principles, the Cats would be playing the first weekend in San Diego, the farthest first-weekend site from Lexington.
That same bracket scenario put UK as a No. 5 seed in Los Angeles — again, the farthest region from Lexington — and within a region that also included Kansas as the No.