2017 NCAA Tournament Bracket: Latest Projection of the Field of 68

The Villanova Wildcats remain the projected No. 1 overall seed with less than seven weeks remaining until Selection Sunday. Just behind the reigning national champions on the top line are Baylor, Kansas and Kentucky.There's no time like the present to start watching college hoops with Final Four potential on your mind, as Kansas plays Kentucky this Saturday. Not long thereafter, Kansas and Baylor will be waging war on Wednesday. Head-to-head results might not make much of a difference when trying to determine who the No. 1 seeds deserve to be, but they will be noteworthy data points when it comes time to actually fill out our brackets.Since our last NCAA tournament projection, Arizona and Marquette were two of the biggest upward-movers, as each looked unstoppable on offense on the road against AP Top 10 opponents this past Saturday. At the other end of the spectrum, Illinois, Pittsburgh and Texas Tech have each fallen from projected No. 8 or No. 9 seeds onto the heart of the bubble.Hate on RPI all you want, but it's still the primary metric the NCAA selection committee uses in selecting and seeding the field. KenPom.com rankings and strength of schedule were also crucial pieces of this projection, but prepare yourself for many mentions of how teams have fared against the teams in varying ranges of RPI ranks.As always, we'll take a look at the last five teams to make the field, the first five out and a few on the horizon.After that, we'll present each seeded region, includingthe subregional locations in which each pod would be playedand some commentary on which teams have moved the most in each region. Then we'll defend the rankings of the No. 1 seeds, followed by a summary of the entire field broken up by conference.Begin Slideshow
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