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Power Ratings on the March Madness Tournament with Kelley Ford · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  All right, let's get into some of your numbers here. If you go
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  to K four ratings dot com, you've got the updated March Madness projections.
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  Say, Houston still my number one power rated team, but Yukon now has
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  the greatest chance to win the field to win the title twenty one percent chance
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  to win the whole thing rated twenty two point six. What obviously numbers in
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  such of that nature, and Yukon wasn't that far behind, but a little
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  bit of teetering at the top, especially when you see a drop of North
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  Carolina all the way down to eighteen point one. Yeah, so just like
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  it was coming into the tournament, Jacob. Again, we don't always say
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  this after the first week of play, but the top four teams by my
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  power ratings and by the chance to make the final four and win the national
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  Championship are still the same four teams, maybe in a slightly different order for
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  chances to win, as you mentioned, and they're all coming from different regions
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  here. I mean, Yukon is still the favorite in the East, as
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  they have been for me since it started, really for everybody. Houston the
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  favorite out of the Midwest, per Doe, the favorite out of the South
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  in Arizona, even though they are the two seed. My Power ratings and
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  some others there as well did have them as the best team by power eady
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  standpoint in the West Region even over the number one seat North Carolina and with
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  the best chance to make it to Phoenix. And I do think that playing
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  in the West Region, I believe it is it in Los Angeles this year.
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  I want to say, is where that is? Like Arizona. North
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  Carolina has a great fan base, it's a national fan base, and they're
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  going to travel. But if it's Arizona and North Carolina in the Elite eight
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  and it's in the West Region out there in Los Angeles, I fully expect
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  Arizona to have just as many, if not more fans in North Carolina in
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  a game of those two high profile programs and teams that could make the difference.
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  It's also Caleb love Right used to play at North Carolina, now he's
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  at Arizona. All sorts of storylines, but to me, there's a top
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  tier of teams, those four and then after that you're looking at you know,
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  Tennessee, Iowa, State, Duke, North Carolina. Those are probably
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  the next teams that I'd say one from each of those regions, and don't
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  count out Alabama. I have them in my bracket. Getting to the Elite
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  eight, we will see if they're able to I've got it with a forty
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  six percent chance to beat North Carolina. I'm certainly going to have my eyes
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  on that game here coming up later this week.