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Gabriel Baumgaertner, Hunter Felt, Bryan Armen Graham and Nicholas Levine

March Madness 2023: Which school will rise to top of wide-open field?

Alabama Purdue Brandon Miller March madness Memphis Zach Edey Houston NCAA Cinderella Drake
Zach Edey
Zach Edey of the top-seeded Purdue Boilermakers is the current favorite to win the Naismith Award as college basketball’s player of the year. Photograph: Quinn Harris/Getty Images

Is this year’s NCAA tournament as wide-open as it’s ever been?

It is. Alabama were named the tournament’s top overall seed despite losing five games, two more than fellow No 1 seed Houston. The West region is widely considered a gauntlet that could produce an unlikely Final Four side and pundits can’t even agree on a favorite Cinderella team. Get ready for it to get weird. Gabriel Baumgaertner

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