Mar 16, 2021
Editor s Note: Welcome to Morning Madness, SI s daily newsletter during the NCAA tournament. We ll provide you with insight, analysis, picks and more from our college hoops experts.
Upsets are always a major theme across the first weekend of March Madness, when after days of people debating which lower-seeded programs can pull them off, it s finally time for those teams to prove it on the court. But we re not here to talk about the Cinderellas in this edition of Morning Madness; instead, we re here to talk about the men s teams you
should trust in the first round.
While we do live in a post-UMBC-beating-Virginia world, we re not going to take the easy way out and include No. 1 seeds here. However, here s eight others that we feel confident telling you to pencil in.