4 teams with the hardest path to 2023 Men’s Final Four (including Duke)

Which top teams have their work cut out for them this March?

The bracket is set, the ball will soon tip and the madness is just about here.

But when the dust settles, which of the 68 teams will make it to the 2023 men’s Final Four in Houston? Kansas, Houston, Purdue and Alabama remain the favorites after Selection Sunday, though they’ll each have their own tests ahead of them.

Still, the top-seeded teams tend to have easier paths to the first weekend in April than anyone else.

So who has the toughest road to the Final Four?

Let’s break it down by region using KenPom projections to see which of the elite teams in each has their work cut out for them.

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