Raleigh, N.C. • The Big East has No. 2 Villanova and No. 3 Xavier aiming for No. 1 seeds in the NCAA Tournament. The Big 12 has No. 9 Kansas on its seemingly permanent perch as the Big 12's regular-season champion.
And the southern-roots Atlantic Coast Conference returned to Brooklyn with Virginia the unanimous No. 1 in the AP Top 25, freshman Marvin Bagley III and No. 5 Duke rounding into postseason form — and just in time for a winter storm threatening to blanket the Northeast in heavy snow.
Yes, it promises to be an eventful week with most of college basketball's top conferences hitting tournament time and Selection Sunday just days away.