For all the talk of Madness and upsets and unpredictability, over the past 25 seasons, the NCAA men's basketball tournament has been won by a non-top-three seed precisely once.
UConn did it in 2014. But in modern college basketball, true "Cinderellas" don't do it. They occasionally crash the Final Four. They never win it. Until recently, the index of champions since 1995 read like a guest list for an elitist soirée.
Which is why the following list, of teams that could realistically win the 2022 tournament, is, frankly, somewhat boring.