2 high, 2 low: Top seeding mistakes at the NCAA tournament

Hindsight is 20-20, but evidently the NCAA tournament selection committee lacked foresight with some of its seeding decisions when filling out this year's bracket.

After the opening week of March Madness, two teams stood out as being seeded too high, while two programs were clearly placed too low.

Too high:

No. 3 Tennessee

Tennessee shared the SEC regular-season title with fourth-seeded Auburn, and lost the conference tournament championship to fifth-seeded Kentucky, yet somehow was seeded higher than both those programs. The Volunteers had a great season, no doubt, but No. 3 seemed a bit high. They promptly fell to Loyola Chicago in the second round.

No. 6 TCU

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Jamie Dixon's crew mopped up in non-conference action, but benefited from a soft schedule and then only managed a 9-9 record in Big 12 play. TCU struggled on the road and in its conference, and that should've raised questions about its ability to win against stronger competition at neutral sites. The sixth-seeded Horned Frogs fell in the first round to Syracuse.

Too low:

No. 5 Clemson

Clemson had an identical conference record to North Carolina, but was seeded three places lower than the Tar Heels. Whereas North Carolina was bounced in the second round, No. 5 Clemson put a beatdown for the ages on No. 4 Auburn in Round 2. Clemson lost just one game all season to a program that didn't reach the NCAA tournament, a sign that it's one of the nation's most dangerous teams.

No. 16 UMBC

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There's an argument to be made that any 16-seed that knocks off a No. 1 shouldn't have been seeded so low in the first place, and UMBC made it by defeating Virginia in Round 1. Not only did the Retrievers stun the nation by upsetting the Cavaliers, they also played a tightly contested second-rounder against Kansas State, proving they were far from one of the worst four teams in the field, as their seeding suggested.