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The Post\u2019s Zach Braziller provides a college basketball stock watch and look ahead to this week\u2019s biggest games.<\/p>\n
Game of the Week<\/p>\n
No. 5 Florida at No. 1 Auburn, Saturday, 4 p.m.:<\/p>\n
Saturday\u2019s showdown against the Gators will mark Auburn\u2019s sixth game this season against a current Top 10 team. <\/p>\n
The top-ranked Tigers are 4-1 in such contests, well on their way to the overall No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. <\/p>\n
They own a ridiculous 12-1 record in Quad 1 games, and sit all alone atop the dominant SEC, a game in the loss column up on No. 4 Alabama. Expect offensive fireworks in this one, as two of the top 5 offenses in terms of efficiency in the nation meet.<\/p>\n
Seeding<\/p>\n
1. Auburn, Duke, Alabama, Tennessee<\/p>\n
2. Purdue, Iowa State, Florida, Houston<\/p>\n
3. Marquette, Texas A&M, Kentucky, Michigan State<\/p>\n
4. Kansas, Arizona, Ole Miss, Missouri<\/p>\n
Stock Watch<\/p>\n
Up<\/p>\n
John Calipari<\/p>\n
Saturday\u2019s victory at No. 12 Kentucky had to be one of the most satisfying wins of the Hall of Fame coach\u2019s career. <\/p>\n
On a night when he was booed in his old arena, despite leading the Wildcats to a national championship and four Final Four berths in 15 mostly successful seasons, Calipari led his new program, Arkansas, to a win that could ultimately get them into the NCAA Tournament. <\/p>\n
Calipari was gracious afterward, when nobody would\u2019ve faulted him for taking a few parting shots at the Kentucky fan base.<\/p>\n
Saint Mary\u2019s<\/p>\n
The WCC is Saint Mary\u2019s to lose. After knocking off Gonzaga on Saturday night, the Gaels have won 10 straight games, and hold a commanding three-game lead over San Francisco and the Zags. Their three losses, to Utah State, Arizona State and Boise State, have each come by seven points or fewer. <\/p>\n
Despite losing star guard Aidan Mahaney to the transfer portal, Saint Mary\u2019s is having another big year, buoyed by scoring depth \u2014 six players average at least nine points per game \u2014 and a defense that allows 60.8 points, the seventh-lowest total in the country.<\/p>\n
Down<\/p>\n
Kansas<\/p>\n
The preseason No. 1 team is showing major cracks. After blowing a 21-point lead at previously skidding Baylor, Kansas has lost three of its past six games entering another difficult week: Home for No. 3 Iowa State and at in-state rival Kansas State. <\/p>\n
Two of the Jayhawks\u2019 major transfer portal additions, AJ Storr (Wisconsin) and Rylan Griffen (Alabama), have not panned out as expected, putting an onus on the big three of Hunter Dickinson, Zeke Mayo and Dajuan Harris Jr. Kansas finds itself in a three-way tie for fifth place in the Big 12, three full games behind 6th-ranked Houston and Arizona atop the league.<\/p>\n
ACC<\/p>\n
The ACC could be this year\u2019s Big East, the conference most angered by the selection committee\u2019s decisions. The league is trending the wrong way the first week of February. Saturday was particularly ugly: North Carolina wasn\u2019t competitive against archrival and 2nd-ranked Duke, Pittsburgh\u2019s shaky play continued in a loss at Wake Forest and No. 21 Louisville suffered a stunning setback to Georgia Tech. <\/p>\n
Right now, the ACC has three teams that I believe will make it in: Duke, Louisville and Clemson. Pittsburgh seemed to be in good shape before this current skid of five losses in seven games. <\/p>\n
North Carolina, flirting with missing the tournament for the second time in three years, is a disastrous 1-9 in Quad 1 games. Wake Forest and SMU, two potential bubble teams, are a combined 1-9 in Quad 1 as well. Only three bids isn\u2019t out of the question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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