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LSU's Antonio Blakeney spent his freshman season overshadowed by Ben Simmons, but he is going to make a name for himself this year as the SEC's leading scorer—albeit for a team no one thinks will make the NCAA tournament.

Generally speaking, this is not a list where you want to find your favorite team. Guys like Denzel Valentine and Buddy Hield were exceptions to the rule by lighting up the scoreboard for national championship contenders. In each of the past five seasons, at least three of the leading scorers from the six major conferences played for teams that failed to make the NCAA tournament.

Hield was enough to get Oklahoma to the 2015 Sweet 16 and the 2016 Final Four, but the only other major-conference leading scorer to make it into the tournament's second weekend in the past five years was Ohio State's Deshaun Thomas in 2013 (Elite Eight). Hield, Valentine, Thomas and Doug McDermott were the only leading scorers in the past five years to carry their teams to a top-four seed in the Big Dance. None of them played for teams that won their conference.

Simply put, the best teams have the most scoring options. Case in point: Duke is so loaded with talent everyone expects the Blue Devils to win the ACC, yet no one expects Grayson Allen to average more than 20 points per game again.

That isn't to say that every team on this list is going to miss the NCAA tournament, but we certainly aren't expecting these teams to win their respective conferences.

Note: In addition to the ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Pac-12 and SEC, we've opted to include the three conferences almost certain to send multiple teams to this year's NCAA tournament: American, A-10 and West Coast. If it upsets you to see these in an article advertised as the major conferences, stop reading after the sixth slide.