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2/17/2008

Selection Sunday four weeks away

Four weeks until Selection Sunday, five predictions for then:

1. Your four No. 1 seeds will be Memphis (South), Kansas (Midwest), Duke (East) and North Carolina (West). Ty Lawson will come back to lead the Tar Heels to the ACC tournament championship. Coupled with Tennessee losses to Memphis and in the SEC tournament, that's enough to land North Carolina the final No. 1. To get to San Antonio, however, the Tar Heels will have to go through UCLA, seeded No. 2 in the West.

2. Purdue, Indiana and Wisconsin tie for the Big Ten title. Indiana gets the league's highest seed, a three, after it wins the Big Ten tournament. The Badgers also get a three, Purdue snags a four, Michigan State a five, and Ohio State sneaks into the field as an 11.

3. Thanks to their road woes (including a loss at Wisconsin Feb. 28), the Spartans are sent packing to Denver in the first round, where they beat 12th seed Western Kentucky then upset No. 4 Washington State to reach the Sweet 16.

4. MSU, which loses the Big Ten tournament final to Indiana, sees its NCAA run stopped in the Sweet 16 by Duke. The Blue Devils ride a thunderous home crowd (the games are played in Charlotte) to a 74-62 win, forcing 18 Spartan turnovers with their high-pressure perimeter defense. UConn, however, knocks Duke out two days later to reach the Final Four.

5. Memphis, Kansas and North Carolina join UConn in San Antonio, with North Carolina beating previously undefeated Memphis in one semifinal then topping Kansas to cut down the nets.

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