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Four takeaways from the NCAA's tournament's early bracket reveal

Three-quarters of the way through a historically unpredictable college basketball season, the NCAA tournament selection committee shared a snapshot of its top 16 teams. Here are four key takeaways from the partial in-season bracket the committee unveiled on Saturday afternoon.

1. The four No. 1 seeds have pulled away from the rest of the field

A comment that committee chairman Kevin White made about the quartet of No. 1 seeds provided the biggest takeaway from Saturday’s bracket reveal show. The Duke athletic director said on CBS that those four teams were “unanimous” No.