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When you’re looking at who to pick in this year’s field, stay away from crowning a national champion west of Kansas. Why might you ask? Because recent history speaks volumes about who has been able to be the last team standing.
No team in the west has won a title since 1998. This means history has the odds stacked against 14 teams, including No. 1 seed Arizona. If you play by this factor, twenty percent of the teams are already out of consideration…