https://t.co/BEgQFZm7hL. 🏀🏀 The latest candidate for "hottest team in America" takes us to Illinois. The Fighting Illini are making headlines with an 11-game winning streak, which includes back-to-back road wins of the Quad 1A variety at Purdue and Nebraska.
These victories in the top half of Quad 1 move the needle more than any other in terms of NCAA tournament seeding. As a result, the Illini reside as the top 2-seed in our latest bracket (No. 5 overall). That's the good news.
The bad -- if we can call it that -- is the sizable gap between the No. 1 and No. 2 seeds on our board. One could drive a truck through the space between Illinois and UConn, currently the last 1-seed. We've also seen our shadow, however, meaning the six more weeks of Bracketology could still bring plenty of surprises.
I know that me/we are in control of our work ahead for 2026 season. I’m sure all voters knew that Iowa beat Vandy even though ranking is opposite…. TCU beat USC and again rankings are opposite. Maybe all these AP voters should do a story on each others voting logic 😂👀😂 #ILL