South Region

Here are the ASM scores for the South Region.

South	1	Florida	16.3	4
South	4	UCLA	14.3	10
South	2	Kansas	14.2	11
South	6	Ohio State	13.4	16
South	9	Pittsburgh	12.6	21
South	5	VCU	12.3	25
South	7	New Mexico	12.1	26
South	12	Stephen F. Austin	11.6	28
South	3	Syracuse	11.1	30
South	10	Stanford	8.4	41
South	11	Dayton	7.8	46
South	13	Tulsa	7.6	47
South	8	Colorado	7.2	49
South	15	Eastern Kentucky	5.5	56
South	14	Western Michigan	4.4	60
South	16	Albany	1.5	64
South	16	Mount St. Mary's	-2.8	68

Far right column is overall ASM rank. And remember that I said 25 of the last 40 Final Four teams had top 15 ASM scores. So if you’re trying to reduce risk, you’re looking at Florida, UCLA and Kansas in this region. Here’s what the crowd is saying on ESPN.

South
1. Florida: 62 percent
2. Kansas: 16.8 percent
3. Syracuse: 11.8 percent
4. UCLA: 2.9 percent

Want to take a flier on a team? How about UCLA? Kansas has injury concerns. Florida is the best team in the country. But UCLA doesn’t exactly stink. I’ll do this in one of my three pools.