The NCAA Revealed The Top-16 Teams For This Year's NCAA Tournament Bracket - LET'S ARGUE ABOUT IT!

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- Why this is important? It tends to hold serve. This is the 6th year they've done this and 12 of the 16 No. 1 seeds were just that in March. The other 4? They fell to 2 seeds. Last year it was Ohio State, who well, they shouldn't have lost to Oral Roberts. 

- Baylor at 5 is a bit shocking. The committee head was on the show and it seems like they are giving a pass for injuries. Makes sense, assuming they do it as if it's judging the team that will be in March. Losing a guy for two games and coming back is different than like JTT, who is out for the year for Baylor. I think Baylor is a good team, but them being the top-2 seed right now was not what I would have guessed. 

- Here's a massive problem. You can't put Villanova in the East bracket. Why? That regional is in Philly. Nova shouldn't get the advantage of playing at Wells Fargo as a 3 seed. I know they are eligible to play at Wells Fargo because they only played 3 games there, but you can't put them there. You can't punish the 1 and 2 seed in the East region. I know this is just the top-16 as of today, but that can't happen on Selection Sunday.

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- They said Houston, Alabama and Ohio State were in consideration for a 4 seed. Houston seems like they can't get there. No with the injuries to Mark and Sasser and the AAC. The other two absolutely can because of the quality of wins they could still have.

- I don't have a problem with too much here. The committee is rewarding quality wins and using the metrics like they should. You could tell me Providence should probably be switched with UCLA, but this felt right. Like I said, Baylor at 5 was shocking. I'd move Texas Tech to the 2 line. Other than that it was all expected. 

- The NET isn't end all, be all, but it sums it up well. Only two top-16 NET teams that aren't in this bracket is Houston (4th) and LSU (16th.) Wisconsin is 20 and Providence is 29. Fair to say looking at the NET does help. 

- It wasn't shocking to hear because I've talked about it but the committee did say that basically 3 1 seeds feel locked up .Barring disaster we're going to have Auburn, Gonzaga and Arizona as 1 seeds. He did say Baylor and Kentucky were razor thin with Kansas. Keep an eye on that going forward as they made it seem like a 3-man race for that last one seed. 

- Right off the bat, that West region is going to be AWESOME. You have a little bit of star power, some scoring, coaches. That's the loaded bracket. Following that would be the East where you have Kansas, Kentucky, Nova and Wisconsin. All 4 teams have a history with each other in some capacity. The South? Well, send me there if you want what appears to be the easiest bracket. That's the one with the biggest question marks from teams. 

- Based on this and assuming everyone is at 100% and not these little day to day injuries give me Kentucky, Gonzaga, Arizona and Purdue. 

- It feels so fucking good to see a regular bracket again. No more all in Indiana. No more weirdness. Give me this. Let me get pissed about geography. Let me get pissed about seedings.  We're back baby. Get me to One Shining Moment.