Bracket IV - KenPom Plus Hottest Teams - UConn beats Alabama for Title

Note: click here for the bracket results for all 8 methods.

Here is the bracket based on the KenPom rating but with a heavier weight toward the rating the last weeks of the season to move the hottest teams going into the tournament head in close games.

The AdjM ranking at www.kenpom is his master calculation of how many points better than the average team any given team is. When calculating the hottest team, we estimate the AdjM just over the past several weeks as a team has trended more hot or cold. We rank Connecticut as the hottest team in basketball in February and March despite losing by two points to Marquette in the Big East title. 

Here is where all 68 rank, with a note on their kenpom rank in early February and then last week to show the movement.

Hotttest	Team	AdjM Recent	Feb 1 ranking	Rank final week
1	Connecticut	30	6	4
2	Alabama	28	4	3
3	Texas	28	10	9
4	Houston	27	1	1
5	Gonzaga	27	17	10
6	Arizona	27	12	10
7	UCLA	26	4	2
8	Marquette	25	8	12
9	Xavier	24	23	14
10	Duke	24	28	24
11	Purdue	23	5	6
12	Kansas	23	9	8
13	San Diego St.	23	28	15
14	Texas A&M	23	42	19
15	Kentucky	23	34	22
16	Baylor	22	14	14
17	West Virginia	22	19	16
18	Utah St.	22	48	18
19	Maryland	21	29	18
20	Tennessee	20	1	5
21	Michigan St.	20	41	29
22	Memphis	20	36	33
23	Arkansas	19	20	19
24	Indiana	19	22	27
25	Florida Atlantic	19	39	29
26	VCU	19	78	67
27	Saint Mary's	18	7	7
28	Creighton	18	11	12
29	Kansas St.	18	24	18
30	USC	18	45	34
31	Nevada	18	52	40
32	Northwestern	18	54	42
33	Auburn	17	30	26
34	Iowa St.	16	18	20
35	Iowa	16	33	35
36	Drake	16	81	77
37	Penn St.	15	40	47
38	Iona	15	85	76
39	Boise St.	14	25	28
40	Mississippi St.	14	50	45
41	Missouri	14	49	51
42	Charleston	14	77	73
43	TCU	13	15	24
44	Miami FL	13	37	40
45	Oral Roberts	13	57	67
46	Illinois	12	23	32
47	Kent St.	12	71	78
48	N.C. State	11	53	47
49	Arizona St.	11	65	62
50	Louisiana	11	99	111
51	Vermont	11	136	113
52	Virginia	9	13	31
53	Providence	9	28	45
54	Furman	9	91	90
55	Pittsburgh	8	68	66
56	Grand Canyon	8	118	112
57	Texas A&M Corpus Chris	8	219	173
58	Texas A&M Corpus Chris	8	219	178
59	Kennesaw St.	7	142	130
60	Montana St.	6	111	110
61	Princeton	6	112	116
62	UNC Asheville	6	179	149
63	Northern Kentucky	6	208	163
64	UC Santa Barbara	5	91	109
65	Colgate	5	115	112
66	Howard	2	237	218
67	Texas Southern	-5	306	294
68	Fairleigh Dickinson	-14	313	315