Give Kentucky basketball this much: It’s consistent.
UK has posted a 1-1 record each of the last five weeks. Because of that uniformity, the Wildcats’ projected NCAA Tournament seed has remained the same the past month plus.
After splitting yet another week — Kentucky escaped with a one-point win over Oklahoma on the road but couldn’t slow down top-ranked Auburn at home three days later — the projected seed line for coach Mark Pope’s team is 3.40, per Bracket Matrix. The Wildcats appeared in all 104 of the brackets collected by the site, as of Tuesday afternoon.
UK began Tuesday 15th in the NET rankings, down one spot from last week. Kentucky is 9-9 in Quad 1 games — the key evaluation tool used by the NCAA Tournament selection committee when it begins creating the 68-team bracket — during the 2024-25 campaign. Through Monday’s games, UK’s nine Quad 1 triumphs are fifth most nationally, trailing Auburn (16), Alabama (10), Oregon (10) and Tennessee (10).
which updated its bracket Monday night, projected Kentucky as the No. 4 seed in the South Region, facing 13-seed Arkansas State in the first round in Seattle. Bracketville, which also updated its projections Monday, slotted UK as the 3-seed in the West Region, clashing with 14-seed Northern Colorado in a first-round matchup in Providence, Rhode Island.
which bases its bracket solely upon NET rankings, has the Wildcats as a 4-seed, squaring off with 13th-seeded High Point.
