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It was an all-No. 1 seed Final Four last year, but here are some March Madness teams who are intriguing as potential Final Four teams this year.
Not every top seed features a compelling storyline. Not every 16-seed is fit to wear Cinderella's slipper. No Men's NCAA Tournament is without its share of intrigue, but the storylines hardly are limited to those teams who populate the top- and bottom-seed lines.
March Madness printable bracket: Fill out for predictions, picks in NCAA Tournament Here are five teams, slotted as high as No. 2 upon the onset of March Madness and relatively mid-tier as the West's No. 7-seed, to consider among this tournament's most intriguing.
Arkansas The SEC tournament champion. John Calipari. A potential lottery pick.
Might this Arkansas squad that's won five straight games have enough to give Calipari a fourth program in the Final Four and the Arkansas program its first run to the semifinals since 1995? Well, Darius Acuff Jr. is a consensus projected NBA Draft lottery pick; he's riding SEC tournament MVP honors into the next wave of March basketball.