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March Madness 2023: Houston leads contenders, Tennessee among pretenders for NCAA Tournament
There are 363 Division I teams in college basketball. Only 68 of them will get into the NCAA Tournament field this year. And only a fraction of those 68, if I’m being truthful, are legitimate contenders fit to wear the crown. So who are they? By my count, only seven teams have the goods to be the last team standing on the first Monday night of April in Houston. They are (no surprise) called “contenders.” Just below them is another bucket of good — but not great — teams called “pretenders.” These are teams that can make a run in March but don’t quite have the goods to win it…