After a weekend of trimming the field, we are down to 16 teams in the NCAA Tournament. It’s time to reassess the favorites and I’ve done that for the weekly Power Rankings on FoxSports.com.
The first three rounds of the NCAA tournament offered up a little bit of everything. There were six overtime games, big upsets, the traditional victories by the No. 12 seeds over the No. 5 seeds, and still quite a bit of chalk on the brackets.
Now we regroup and get ready for the Sweet 16 games. Three of the top four seeds are still alive, but nly two of the No. 2 seeds made it this far. Wichita State, Kansas, Duke, North Carolina and Syracuse have been eliminated. But the field still includes three teams from the Big Ten (Michigan, Michigan State, Wisconsin), the Pac-12 (Arizona, UCLA, Stanford), and the SEC (Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee). The tournament is headed to New York City – the first time ever for the current Madison Square Garden – and Connecticut should be right at home after its long history in the Big East and a NIT championship there in 1988 under coach Jim Calhoun.
We are sure to be entertained by a Kentucky-Louisville matchup. And Cinderella comes in the form of two double-digit seeds, No. 10 Stanford and No. 11 Dayton.
Based on everything we saw last weekend, all the available statistics, and our own eye test, here are the Sweet 16 Power Rankings, presented in a slideshow. 
Enjoy the games.
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