During the Spring of 2019, I authored two recurring college basketball futures columns as a writer at Action Network. Those columns were titled, “College Basketball National Title Contenders” and “Final Four Dark Horse Candidates.”
Since then, it has become tradition that I revive those columns for the NCAA tournament.
The goal of this article is to help you isolate the specific teams with viable paths to the Final Four and to explicitly exclude other teams from plausible contention.
My hope is that this discrimination of contenders vs. pretenders will help you build more viable (and more financially lucrative) NCAA tournament picks for your bracket pools.