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The Magic Eight: One of these teams will win the national title

Joel Embiid and fellow freshman Wayne Selden and Andrew Wiggins could lead Kansas to another title.

Joel Embiid and fellow freshman Wayne Selden and Andrew Wiggins could lead Kansas to another title.

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Jabari Parker has been arguably the best player in college basketball, but can he carry Duke to a championship?

Jabari Parker has been arguably the best player in college basketball, but can he carry Duke to a championship?

Villanova and Iowa: Two highly efficient teams that lack the tourney experience to pull off a title run. The Wildcats bowed out in the first round last season to North Carolina, while no one on the Hawkeyes has been in the Dance. (Kentucky gets a waiver on the tourney-experience requirement due to its abundance of NBA talent, which neither of these teams can match.)

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