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NCAA tournament seeds 1-68, as Joe Lunardi saw it

March 15, 2020 at 10:13PM
Head coach Bill Self of the Kansas Jayhawks hands the the Big 12 Championship Trophy to players after Kansas defeated the TCU Horned Frogs to win the game at Allen Fieldhouse on March 04, 2020 in Lawrence, Kansas. (Jamie Squire/Getty Images/TNS)
Kansas coach Bill Self handed the Big 12 regular-season championship trophy to his players after the Jayhawks beat TCU on March 4. Top-ranked Kansas played its regular-season finale three days later … and never played another game this season, with the Big 12 tournament canceled Thursday before the Jayhawks took the floor and the NCAA tournament being wiped out the same day. (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

ESPN analyst Joe Lunardi's projected 68-team NCAA tournament seed list … before the tournament was canceled Thursday because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Teams that had already automatically qualified for the field are marked with an asterisk (*); teams with two asterisks (**) were regular-season champions of conferences whose tournaments were canceled.

1 seeds

1. Kansas (28-3)**

2. Gonzaga (31-2)*

3. Baylor (26-4)

4. Dayton (29-2)*

2 seeds

5. San Diego State (30-2)

6. Florida State (26-5)**

7. Creighton (24-7)**

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8. Kentucky (25-6)**

3 seeds

9. Villanova (24-7)

10. Duke (25-6)

11. Michigan State (22-9)

12. Seton Hall (21-9)

4 seeds

13. Maryland (24-7)

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14. Oregon (24-7)**

15. Louisville (24-7)

16. Wisconsin (21-10)**

5 seeds

17. Ohio State (21-10)

18. Butler (22-9)

19. Brigham Young (24-8)

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20. Auburn (25-6)

6 seeds

21. Michigan (19-12)

22. Iowa (20-11)

23. Penn State (21-10)

24. Virginia (23-7)

7 seeds

25. Illinois (21-10)

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26. Arizona (21-11)

27. Providence (19-12)

28. West Virginia (21-10)

8 seeds

29. Houston (23-8)

30. St. Mary's (26-8)

31. Louisiana State (21-10)

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32. Colorado (21-11)

9 seeds

33. Rutgers (20-11)

34. Florida (19-12)

35. Southern California (22-9)

36. Oklahoma (19-12)

10 seeds

37. Marquette (18-12)

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38. Texas Tech (18-13)

39. Utah State (26-8)*

40. Arizona State (20-11)

11 seeds

41. Indiana (20-12)

42. North Carolina State (20-12)

43. UCLA (19-12)

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44. East Tennessee State (30-4)*

45. Cincinnati (20-10)**

12 seeds

46. Texas (19-12)

47. Richmond (24-7)

48. Stephen F. Austin (28-3)**

49. Yale (23-7)*

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50. Liberty (30-4)*

13 seeds

51. Vermont (26-7)**

52. Akron (24-7)**

53. New Mexico State (25-6)**

54. North Texas (20-11)**

14 seeds

55. Belmont (26-7)*

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56. Hofstra (26-8)*

57. Bradley (23-11)*

58. Eastern Washington (23-8)**

15 seeds

59. North Dakota State (25-8)*

60. California Irvine (21-11)**

61. Little Rock (21-10)**

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62. Northern Kentucky (23-9)*

16 seeds

63. Winthrop (24-10)*

64. Siena (20-10)**

65. Boston University (21-13)*

66. Prairie View (19-13)**

67. Robert Morris (20-14)*

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68. North Carolina Central (18-13)**

Last four byes: Marquette, Texas Tech, Arizona State, Indiana

Last four in: N.C. State, UCLA, Texas, Richmond

First four out: Xavier, Wichita State, Memphis, Stanford

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