Filling out a bracket for the NCAA tournament is pretty much a crapshoot, no matter how much you study or how good you guess. That was especially true last year, when no No. 1 seed made the Final Four, yet Butler somehow found its way there for the second straight year.

Figuring out which schools care as much about academics as they do about basketball is a lot easier.

Attend Duke or, say, Creighton, and you’re pretty much assured a degree, if not a career in the NBA. Both schools in recent years graduated all their basketball players, as did four other teams in this year’s field.