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Seriously. On no ones radar. Actually this was one of the weirdest brackets ever. I should be relieved Michigan is in but now I'm just mad they didn't get a bye over teams like Syracuse or Temple Hey they got a first four game against a 14 seed.

The bracket, as leaked an hour before the selection show finished:

It'd be a little funny if Tulsa didn't even plan a selection show party, and now team officials are frantically trying to contact the team to get them to Dayton by Tuesday.

No St. Mary's, no San Diego State, no St. Bonaventure, no Florida.

Note, Tulsa was in ZERO of 59 brackets in the Bracket Matrix this year.

As overseeded as the West bracket is to me, is as underseeded as the East is. Committee did UNC no favors, putting them with two 2 seeds and two 4 seeds.

If the NCAA is going to call the games tight, I like an underseeded SF Austin over WVU.

Bracket may have leaked.

Indiana will also be a 5. MSU gets the 2 in the Midwest, which is good as the 1 there.

Purdue will be a 5. Michigan will make the other First Four matchup.

Oklahoma is going to cruise to the Elite Eight. Full of overseeded teams.

Yeesh, Oregon State is not only in, but a 7 seed?!

Colorado, because RPI.

Barkley using computers. Just make it stop.

I mean, seriously, Temple might have the worst non-conference ever for an at-large team.

Vanderbilt and Wichita State in the First Four, because RPI is dumb.

Temple makes the field, because they won the American conference and they must have turned a blind eye to their non-conference games.

Oregon gets the #1 seed in the West, because RPI is dumb.

Should've gone with Princeton.

And that is why committee members aren't allowed to have a say in their own teams.

St. Joseph's wins the Atlantic 10. I still think they and VCU are about right.

IF Memphis wins today, Memphis is a 12 seed, SF Austin is bumped up to an 11, Michigan is bumped to the first four, and South Carolina is bumped out.

So here's my "official" bracket: Dayton - First Four Tuesday, March 15 16b. Southern - SWAC 16c. Fairleigh Dickinson - NEC 11a. Providence 11d. South Carolina Wednesday, March 16 16a. Austin Peay - OVC 16d. Holy Cross - Patriot 11b. Florida 11c. Syracuse Midwest Regional - Chicago, IL Des Moines, IA March 17/19 1. Kansas - Big 12 16. Southern / Fairleigh Dickinson 8. St. Mary's 9. Pittsburgh Spokane, WA March 18/20 4. Maryland 13. Northern Iowa - MVC 5. Arizona 12. Hawaii - Big West Spokane, WA March 18/20 2. Oregon - Pac 12 15. Cal State Bakersfield - WAC 7. Vanderbilt 10. San Diego State St. Louis, MO March 18/20 3. Xavier 14. Buffalo - MAC 6. Notre Dame 11. Michigan East Regional - Philadelphia, PA Brooklyn, NY March 18/20 1. Villanova 16. Austin Peay/Holy Cross 8. Cincinnati 9. Texas Tech Providence, RI March 17/19 4. Purdue 13. Chattanooga - Southern 5. Iowa State 12. UNC Wilmington - Colonial Brooklyn, NY March 18/20 2. West Virginia 15. Green Bay - Horizon 7. Iowa 10. USC Providence, RI March 17/19 3. Miami FL 14. Stony Brook - America East 6. Gonzaga - West Coast 11. Providence / South Carolina South Regional - Louisville, KY St. Louis, MO March 18/20 1. Michigan State (Big Ten) 16. Hampton - MEAC 8. Texas 9. VCU (Atlantic 10) Denver, CO March 17/19 4. Utah 13. Fresno State - MWC 5. Duke 12. Stephen F. Austin - Southland Raleigh, NC March 17/19 2. Virginia 15. Middle Tennessee - CUSA 7. Wichita State 10. St. Joseph's Oklahoma City, OK March 18/20 3. Kentucky (SEC) 14. Iona - MAAC 6. Baylor 11. Florida / Syracuse West Regional - Anaheim, CA Raleigh, NC March 17/19 1. North Carolina - ACC 16. Florida-Gulf Coast - A-Sun 8. Butler 9. Wisconsin Denver, CO March 17/19 4. Texas A&M 13. South Dakota State - Summit 5. California 12. Sun Belt (Arkansas-Little Rock) Oklahoma City, OK March 18/20 2. Oklahoma 15. Weber State - Big Sky 7. Connecticut (American) 10. Dayton Des Moines, IA March 17/19 3. Indiana 14. UNC Asheville - Big South 6. Seton Hall - Big East 11. Yale - Ivy

Well, here's how I see things this morning: S-Curve: 1. Kansas - Big 12 2. Villanova 3. Michigan State (Big Ten) 4. North Carolina - ACC 5. Virginia 6. Oklahoma 7. Oregon - Pac 12 8. West Virginia 9. Xavier 10. Indiana 11. Kentucky (SEC) 12. Miami FL 13. Purdue 14. Utah 15. Maryland 16. Texas A&M 17. Iowa St. 18. Arizona 19. California 20. Duke 21. Baylor 22. Notre Dame 23. Seton Hall - Big East 24. Gonzaga - West Coast 25. Iowa 26. Vandy 27. Wichita St. 28. Connecticut (American) 29. Butler 30. Texas 31. St. Mary's 32. Cincinnati 33. Pittsburgh 34. Wisconsin 35. VCU (Atlantic 10) 36. Texas Tech 37. Dayton 38. St. Joseph's 39. San Diego State 40. USC 41. Michigan 42. Providence 43. Florida 44. Syracuse 45. South Carolina 46. Yale - Ivy 47. Stephen F Austin - Southland 48. Sun Belt (Arkansas LR) 49. Hawaii - Big West 50. UNC Wilmington - Colonial 51. South Dakota State - Summit 52. Northern Iowa - Missouri Valley 53. Chattanooga - Southern 54. Fresno State - MWC 55. Stony Brook - America East 56. Iona - MAAC 57. UNC Asheville - Big South 58. Buffalo - MAC 59. Middle Tennessee - CUSA 60. Weber State - Big Sky 61. Cal State Bakersfield - WAC 62. Green Bay - Horizon 63. Florida-Gulf Coast - A-Sun 64. Hampton - MEAC 65. Austin Peay - OVC 66. Southern - SWAC 67. Fairleigh Dickinson - NEC 68. Holy Cross - Patriot

CSU Bakersfield won the WAC (who?), and Hawaii won the Big West.