Each year, the NCAA tournament committee spends months painstakingly evaluating college basketball to ensure that every team is in its right place come Selection Sunday.
Then, just hours into each tournament, the committee is proven laughably wrong as lower seeds score signature upsets to ignite improbable tournament runs. Such is the nature — and the fun — of the NCAA tournament and its single-elimination format.
The committee — despite its best efforts — is going to get plenty wrong this year with teams that make you wonder: How were they seeded so low?
Here are some strong candidates to outplay their projected seeds and deliver upsets, aka the matchups you hope your favorite team avoids come selection Sunday.