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Gonzaga s Corey KispertYoung Kwak/Associated Press
With a new calendar year on the horizon, it s finally time for our first in-season projection for the 2021 men s NCAA tournament bracket. And if you ve seen the latest AP rankings, it should come as no surprise that Gonzaga, Baylor, Kansas and Villanova are our four No. 1 seeds.
At this point in a most unusual season, projected seeding is still based primarily on preseason expectations as opposed to actual results from the first five weeks. After all, the first NCAA Evaluation Tool (NET) rankings won t come out until Jan. 4, and KenPom.com data still has a lot of preseason modeling baked into the numbers.