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Way Too Early 2020 Bracketology

After last night's title game, I figured it would be fun to take a look at what next season is going to look like. This is obviously a very early draft- in the next few weeks, a lot of coaching changes will happen and a lot of players will transfer and declare for the draft. I have made some rough guesses about player retention here, but I don't pretend to be someone who follows the NBA draft super closely. I relied heavily on T-Rank's 2020 projections for this exercise. Unsurprisingly, most of the teams in this projection made the field this past season. The highest ranked teams who didn't make the tournament this year are Arizona, who returns most of their production from this year and adds 2 top 100 recruits, Notre Dame, who was massively injury-riddled this year, and Missouri, who brings back most of their rotation including possibly Jontay Porter. In the conference breakdown, one thing that stood out to me was the Pac-12 only having two bids. There's a dece