NCAA Tournament 2015: Full Bracket, Seedings and Play-In Games Revealed

The day we've waited more than four months for has finally arrived. Sunday set the 68 teams that will vie for a national championship over the next few weeks—or more accurately, the 67 teams that will be trying to knock off the buzzsaw also known as Kentucky.

The Wildcats moved through the regular season and conference tournament undefeated, becoming the second team in as many seasons to pull off the feat (Wichita State). John Calipari's cabal of McDonald's All-Americans have by far the best chance to run the table since Bob Knight led the Indiana Hoosiers to the promised land in 1976.

Keep in mind that Kentucky would also be the first undefeated team of the 64-team (or 68, whatever) era; Indiana's triumph took one fewer victory, even if the 32 teams added largely consist of flotsam now. It'd be the most impressive feat of Calipari's coaching career and one that would cement his legacy as his generation's best cultivator of talent.

Only one question remains: Can he actually do it? With the bracket set, we now know the path Kentucky will have to take to get it done. With that in mind, let's take a quick look at the teams most likely to knock off the Wildcats.

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Teams With the Best Chance of Taking Down Kentucky

Arizona

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No other team is as well-balanced. Arizona enters the tournament with a defense every bit as fierce as Kentucky with an offense that has similar flaws. The Wildcats on most nights lack an individual star scorer but make up for it with team-wide efficiency. Six players average at least nine points per game, led by ascending freshman Stanley Johnson.

Johnson, a near-lock for the lottery in June, has lived up to every bit of his billing as an athletic stopper defensively and a promising project on the other end. He's been a much more willing shooter than I expected all season, knocking down an acceptable 36.6 percent of his shots from distance while attempting nearly three per game.

He's joined by a cast that includes the perpetually underrated T.J. McConnell, who keeps the offense humming with heady passing and an underrated ability to get a bucket when needed. Brandon Ashley, Rondae Hollis-Jefferson, Kaleb Tarczewski and Gabe York are also reliable veterans who have been on this stage before.

Arizona lost its two best players from last year's team to the NBA draft and may be even better this year. Look out.

Villanova

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Hear me out. I, like most people, have Villanova at or near the top of high-seeded teams most likely to bow out early. Jay Wright doesn't exactly have a robust March resume, the Wildcats lack that one impressive victory over another contender and they're exceedingly reliant on the three-ball. That's usually a recipe for disaster in March.

That said, this may be a team uniquely suited to knocking off Kentucky. No one is beating this team with inside play. Kentucky is too long and has too many elite bigs for that to happen. Not even Jahlil Okafor is going to be able to ascend when Calipari can throw five athletic, lanky dudes at him in the middle.

Luckily for them, Villanova doesn't care. The Wildcats don't pound the ball inside because they can't. They're excellent at working the ball around the perimeter, being patient and finding an open shot from distance. Kentucky has done an excellent job of chasing opponents away from the arc and forcing isolation baskets all season, but Villanova's veteran lineup is patient enough to find the right situations.

All the Wildcats have to do is get hot. They have six players who average at least nine points, all but one of whom (JayVaughn Pinkston) is an average or better three-point shooter. Darrun Hilliard II can be particularly deadly when he's feeling it from distance.

Over a larger sample, Villanova obviously loses to the more talented Kentucky team. I just like the talent makeup here from a head-to-head perspective.

Wisconsin

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Ruthlessly efficient. Truth be told, I dislike watching Wisconsin play basketball. It's a form truly unique to college basketball that I find goes against everything I love about the sport. Virginia affects me in the same way. Watching dudes humdrum it around for 25 seconds, going nowhere in particular before finding a shot is not my bag, baby. (Austin Powers reference in 2015; I am a hip boy.)

But it is damn effective. Wisconsin spent most of the regular season competing with Duke for tops in national offensive efficiency.

Frank Kaminsky is the type of veteran superstar who ascends in March, and Bo Ryan has built an excellent stable of veterans. Sam Dekker has made massive strides even if he's not all the way where people expected, and Nigel Hayes appears to be the next star in line when Dekker and Kaminsky depart.

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The possibility that Traevon Jackson, who broke his foot in January, would be back for the tournament helps the Badgers' odds even more. Jackson will almost certainly not be 100 percent, but having the veteran floor general for even 10-minute spells can make a difference. He'd also help on the defensive end, the one spot where Wisconsin could really use it. Jackson said, per Scott Phillips of College Basketball Talk:

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In the last two weeks, it’s been great. We’ve been really amping it up, doing a lot more activity. A lot of running, a lot of jumping and stuff. Now it’s just about getting to 100 percent. I don’t want to be one of those guys that comes back and hobbles around. I want to be completely where I was at [before the injury].

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There aren't many weaknesses here. Kaminsky also gives Wisconsin the type of foundational star that isn't on Kentucky's roster.