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Selection Sunday is still a little more than 10 weeks away, but Oklahoma, Virginia, Michigan State and Kansas are our projected No. 1 seeds for the 2016 NCAA men's basketball tournament as the calendar flips to January.

It has been nearly two months since our preseason bracket projection, but we needed that much time for the data to make enough sense for an updated bracket. (If you think RPI is a broken system in March, you should see how messed up it is in early December.) With the computer numbers finally starting to match our eye test and conference play just now getting underway, there's no time like the present to refresh the projected field.

Two things to note on the seeding process at this early stage in the season:

First, the best team from each conference is projected for that conference's auto bid. A lot of sites have Iona as the MAAC's auto bid and Monmouth as an at-large option because Iona is 2-0 in conference play, but Monmouth is clearly the better team right now and our only MAAC representative.

Second, we don't project wins and losses, but we do consider teams' remaining schedule for potential. As the season progresses, what you've done will certainly become more important than what you might do, but nonconference schedule strengths vary too widely to base a bracket projection entirely on games to this point in the season.

Other than that, it's business as usual.

The three primary computer metrics considered in this projection are ESPN's RPI, KenPom's pythagorean rankings (KP) and CBS' strength of schedule (SOS), though Sagarin and BPI ratings are also taken into consideration for a more holistic view of each team's resume. And, of course, the oft-mentioned, never-quantifiable eye test was a large part of the seeding process.

As always, we'll take a look at the last five teams to make the field, the first five out and a few on the horizon.

After that, we'll present each seeded region, including the subregional locations in which each pod would be played, and some commentary on which teams have moved the most in each region. Then we'll defend the rankings of the No. 1 seeds, followed by a summary of the entire field broken up by conference.