This year's March Madness frontrunners might be anything but perfect, but the presence of these teams and all their questions at the top of the bracket could make for precisely what the NCAA wants its tournament to be -- a perfectly unpredictable mess.
The top overall seed, Alabama, has been on a roll despite being entangled in a murder case. Another No. 1 seed, defending national champion Kansas, is coming off a blowout loss and has a coach coming out of the hospital. Yet another, Houston, just watched its best player go down in a heap with a scary injury.
The team they lost to, Kansas, is trying to become the first back-to-back NCAA champion since Florida in 2007. "It's certainly something the committee talked about during the course of the year, and certainly played a factor in seeding and selection," said Reynolds, the athletic director at Bradley. "They mark it how they feel and we're just going to do what we need to do to get where we need to be," Kansas forward KJ Adams said.
The Cougars lost their conference title game Sunday, i n large part because they were without Marcus Sasser, the leading scorer who left the previous day's game early after sliding awkwardly and hurting his groin. For Alabama, the SEC tournament was a relative breeze -- nobody stayed within double digits of the Tide -- unlike the past two months, which have been met with a near constant flow of headlines about a former player, Darius Miles, who is accused of capital murder In the Jan. 15 killing of 23-year-old Jamea Harris.
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