The exercise, all season long, has gone like this:
Check the week’s games. Note the teams that lost. Shuffle the deck. Deal.
That transformed the list into an amoeba, an ungainly blob that changed form continually. It reflected only the present that was, if you will, the previous seven days. It did not reflect the relative strengths of the teams involved-or at least the Scribbler’s opinion of those relative strengths.
Later for that. Now, in this final offering of the season, let us focus (as coaches like to say) on the big picture (as coaches also like to say).
Now, don’t interpret this as any kind of Final Four prediction. That comes at the conclusion of the week’s conference tourneys. And don’t use this to seed the NCAA tourney. That, too, comes later.
Just call this the SPI, the Scribbler’s Power Index. Hey, don’t chuckle. If the selection committee can have one, so can he.
%% 1. North Carolina
2. Duke
3. Arkansas
4. Missouri
5. Connecticut
6. Purdue
7. Michigan
8. Louisville
9. Arizona
10. Temple
11. Massachusetts
12. Syracuse
13. Indiana
14. Kentucky
15. Kansas
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16. California
17. UCLA
18. Minnesota
19. Oklahoma State
20. Marquette
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