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Duke<\/a> coach Jon Scheyer guided his program to the\u00a0ACC Tournament title<\/a>\u00a0late Saturday via a 74-70 win<\/a> over Virginia<\/a>. So that’s three conference tournament championships for the now-38-year-old in the four years since he took over at his alma mater following the retirement of Naismith Memorial Hall of Famer Mike Krzyzewski in April 2022.<\/p>\n Scheyer also already has two ACC regular-season championships, two trips to the Elite Eight and one appearance in the Final Four on his Wikipedia page. And, barring a surprise, he should also have the No. 1 overall seed<\/a> in the 2026 NCAA Tournament when the bracket is announced during the NCAA March Madness Selection Show<\/a> a little after 6 pm ET on CBS.<\/p>\n Michigan<\/a> is awesome.<\/p>\n Arizona<\/a> is terrific.<\/p>\n But Duke is 32-2 with a 17-2 record in Quadrant 1, and nobody can exceed those body-of-work numbers. Michigan is the only team that has a chance to match them before the bracket is set. But even if the Wolverines also finish 32-2 with a 17-2 record in Quadrant 1 thanks to a win over Purdue<\/a> in Sunday’s championship game of the Big Ten Tournament<\/a>\u00a0at 3:30 pm ET on CBS, the selection committee should simply use Duke’s 68-63 neutral-court victory over Michigan as a de facto tiebreaker.\u00a0<\/p>\n So, again, barring a surprise, Duke will be the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament. And, no, it wouldn’t be right for the selection committee to dock the Blue Devils because of Caleb Foster’s<\/a> fractured foot that could have him sidelined the rest of the way, because Duke is taking an 11-game winning streak into the NCAA Tournament, the point being that the Blue Devils maintained their level of winning despite the unfortunate development.<\/p>\n As you can surely assume from that previous sentence, Duke remains No. 1 in Sunday morning’s updated CBS Sports Top 25 And 1 daily college basketball rankings for the 22nd consecutive day. Michigan is No. 2. Arizona is No. 3. Florida<\/a> is No. 4. And, yes, I believe those four schools should, and will be, the four No. 1 seeds in the NCAA Tournament, regardless of what happens Sunday.<\/p>\n Soon, we’ll have a bracket.<\/p>\n