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One month from the ridiculous fun that is March Madness. Three weeks and a day from Selection Sunday. One of the best and most intriguing games today? The Davidson/Butler tilt. Noon on ESPN, and well worth watching, especially if Stephen Curry can go on his bad ankle.

Some decent reads for your college basketball weekend:

—-Seth Davis at si.com with a rundown (and picks) of ten of the other compelling games on a weekend full of good match-ups.

—-Gary Parrish at sportsline.com continues to defend his decision to leave Duke in his Top 10. Losers of four of six, a win by Duke over Wake at Cameron would help him make his case.

—-And, since we are closing in on the aforementioned Selection Sunday, how the experts are seeing the potential field shake out:

Jerry Palm’s 64 for sportsline (UNC, Oklahoma, Pitt, and UConn his #1s)

Bracketology on espn.com (same projected top four seeds)

Frank Burlison’s take for foxsports (ditto on the seeds, we appear to be at consensus)

—-Jeff Goodman at foxsports can’t find eight truly quality teams, leading him to the conclusion that the tournament will be in its usual crazy form a month from now.

I agree that the field of potential two seeds is sizable, and the separation between the fifth best team in the country to the 20th best team in the country is rather small. Which should indeed make for a fun March.

If I might, a word about the local team from western Tennessee. John Calipari is turning in another really good coaching job, the team is jelling, and whatever else it does, it plays ferocious defense. And Tyreke Evans has turned out to be better than his hype and is running the point of a very good team. I like them to see the second weekend in the tournament for the fourth year running. All that said, they face perhaps their most dangerous (if there is such a thing in C-USA) game of their annual romp through the conference, playing at UTEP today. It won’t be a walkover.