Joe Lunardi of ESPN and Jerry Palm of CBS Sports are back with their latests projections for this year’s NCAA Tournament seeding. They’ve been wrong before, but both Lunardi and Palm have the Kentucky basketball team projected as a No. 5 seed. What does UK have to do in order to move up in the rankings? How high of a seed can the Cats realistically get?
ESPN’s Bracketology has the Kentucky basketball as a No. 5 seed in the Midwest region. Lunardi predicts UK’s first-round match up will be against the Loyola-Chicago Ramblers. Loyola-Chicago has won 11 of their last 12 games and are 15-3 in the MVC.