Arizona remained the number one overall seed in the updated ESPN Bracketology on Tuesday. Kansas beat Arizona 82-78 on Monday night to give the Wildcats their first loss of the season. Michigan is ahead of Arizona in the major metric sites.
ESPN resident bracketologist Joe Lunardi has Arizona as the top seed in the West Regional. Lunardi projects Arizona to play 16th-seeded Harvard in the first round. That would put Arizona reserve guard Evan Nelson against his former program. Arizona beat Harvard in the second round of the 2013 NCAA Tournament.
Arizona and Harvard are projected to play their first-round game in San Diego, per Lunardi. The winner between Arizona and Harvard is projected to play either eighth seeded Texas A&M or ninth seeded SMU. The winner in that mini pod would advance to the West Regional semifinals in San Jose…