An upset-filled Saturday wasn’t enough to move the Blue Devils into the top three seeds on Joe Lunardi’s latest bracket projections.
Duke finished the evening as Lunardi’s 14th overall seed after beating Boston College by 15 at home earlier in the day. This kept the Blue Devils as one of the No. 4 seeds in the bracket.
Tennessee and Auburn, two of the top teams in the SEC so far this season, lost to unranked conference opponents on Saturday afternoon. The Volunteers were one of Lunardi’s No. 2 seeds in the forecast, and the Tigers fell to the last No. 3 seed as the 12th-ranked team in the country.
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The Tennessee loss moved North Carolina ever closer to reclaiming one of Lunardi’s top seeds, as the Tar Heels are now the fifth overall seed in the nation.
Purdue, Connecticut, Houston, and Arizona remained Lunardi’s four top seeds.