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Forde Minutes: No. 1 Seed Drama, Teams Back From the Dead and More

Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college basketball (tourniquets sold separately in West Lafayette, to stop the bleeding):

WHO REALLY WANTS TO BE A NO. 1 SEED?

For weeks, the projected top seed line for the NCAA tournament looked the same: two teams from the Big 12, two teams from the West Coast, everyone else jockeying for position behind them. It may still be the same in many mock brackets Monday morning, but let’s just say that the margins are both increasing and decreasing, depending where on the No. 1 seed line you look.