NCAA Bracket 2012: Kentucky Set to Repeat Dominant Run to Final Four This March

Regardless of what happens in Sunday's SEC Tournament Final, the nation's top team, the Kentucky Wildcats (32-1) will follow up their deep NCAA tourney run from a year ago with another this March.

John Calipari's Wildcats marched all the way to the Final Four in 2011 before running into Kemba Walker and the Connecticut Huskies. 

This season is different though, Kentucky seems unbeatable. Their only loss came from a buzzer-beater at Indiana in early December. Since that heart-breaking defeat they have won 24 straight, eight of which have come on the road.

That sort of dominance will have bracket projectors and predictors penciling the Wildcats in all the way to New Orleans and beyond. 

They ransacked the SEC during the regular season and are a win away from doing the same away from Lexington against a field of hungry and motivated underdogs. 

The single most important factor which separates Kentucky from any other National Championship contender in 2012 is Player of the Year candidate Anthony Davis. Davis is averaging more than 14 points, 10 rebounds and nearly five blocks per game this season with the Wildcats. He is a force on both sides of the court. 

Before the college basketball season even began Davis was being projected as the No. 1 overall pick in the 2012 NBA Draft, and as of now that has not changed. 

The Wildcats are among the highest scoring teams in the nation (20th, 77.2 PPG) thanks to Davis and his super-talented teammates, and they are the seventh-best shooting team in the country as well (48.8 percent).

With Davis always active on the glass and around the rim Kentucky is one of college basketball's top rebounding squads as well as top defensive units. 

Kentucky has 52 tournament appearances in its history, and 14 Final Fours, but their last National Championship came more than a decade ago in 1998. It and Calipari are due. 

Wherever they wind up in the field of 68 on Sunday night, the 2012 Kentucky Wildcats are set to repeat their dominant run to the Final Four and beyond, playing well into late March and early April.