March Madness: Seeds 1-5

March Madness is just around the corner, and that means there will be a lot of debate over the seeding of the teams. It's not often that all number one seeded teams, but usually a mix of teams in the top five or six seeds. It's also almost a guarantee that there will be one team seeded 10 or higher that makes some noise by upsetting someone, but they usually don't make it much farther than the sweet sixteen. In my opinion the top overall seed would be the Kansas Jayhawks, with the other 1 seeds being Villanova, Oklahoma, and North Carolina. These are probably the top overall teams, although this year especially it really doesn't mean anything, any of those teams could lose in the second round. I personally think that Oklahoma is probably the most unpredictable 1 seed, they could win it all or lose in their second game, mainly because of their reliance on the three pointer.

The two seeds would probably be Virginia, Maryland, Iowa, and Xavier. I think that Maryland is probably the best team out of the group, but they haven't really reached their full potential. Virginia will be an interesting team to watch because in the last two tournaments Michigan State has upset them in the 2nd and 3rd round respectively. I hope obviously that my team, Iowa, makes it far in the tournament, but I wouldn't be surprised if they got knocked out early, although they do have good senior leadership. For my 3 seeds, I picked Michigan State, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Iowa State.

This is a very strong group of 3 seeds, and I could see all of them making it far in the tournament no matter where they are seeded. Michigan State is always a good bet in the tournament, and they have been very good as of late. The same applies for Kentucky, they seem like the have finally got it together, and they could be very dangerous in the tournament. 

Miami, Indiana, Arizona, and Oregon are my picks for the 4 seeds, and Purdue, Dayton, Notre Dame, and Providence for the 5 seeds. These teams usually only produce one or two teams that make it far, and are usually picked to be upset early. The 5 vs 12 and 4 vs 13 match-ups are the trendiest picks for upset, usually because the 12 and 13 seeds are conference champions from weaker conferences. In  2013 three of four 12 seeds won, and the same for 2014. I'm guessing there will be many upsets and surprises in this years tournament, as there is no dominant team in college basketball this year.