March Madness 2023: UConn, Arizona, Baylor & Miami Have Final 4 Potential
There is plenty of value on UConn, Arizona, Baylor and Miami to make a deep run in March
By Kate Constable – Feb 24, 2023, 9:53pm
The college basketball regular season is really two completely different seasons combined into one. You have the non-conference slate where teams are unfamiliar with their opponents and coaching styles. Then you have the conference slate where teams know each other all too well having faced them for years. In most conferences, teams also play each other more than once. So, beyond just knowing a team's tendencies based on coaching styles, programs also have the opportunity to react and adjust their strategies for the second time they meet. That's why you'll see some teams run through their non-conference season but struggle once they get to conference play. However, once you get to the NCAA Tournament, you're almost always playing teams outside of your conference.
Here are three teams that thrived i n the non-conference and should do so again in late March.
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