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Kentucky's tournament resume compared to other potential No. 1 seeds

With six games left in the regular season, Kentucky’s NCAA Tournament resume continues to improve. Right now, the Cats are No. 3 in the NET Rankings, behind only Gonzaga and Arizona; that’s up one spot from a week ago. With several games left vs. teams in the NET Top 50, the Cats’ odds of getting a No. 1 seed in the tournament look good barring any major missteps.

Before we jump into Kentucky’s team sheet, here’s the current NET Top 25:

NET Top 25 – Feb. 14

  1. Gonzaga
  2. Arizona
  3. Kentucky
  4. Baylor
  5. Houston
  6. Villanova
  7. Auburn
  8. Kansas
  9. Purdue
  10. Tennessee
  11. Duke
  12. Texas Tech
  13. Illinois
  14. UCLA
  15. Texas
  16. LSU
  17. Ohio State
  18. UConn
  19. Iowa
  20. Xavier
  21. Saint Mary’s
  22. Alabama
  23. Wisconsin
  24. Michigan state
  25. Wyoming

NET changes for the 2021-22 season

This is the fourth season the NCAA has used the NET Rankings as its primary metric to evaluate the strength of teams’ wins and losses.