Big 10 champion Michigan State landed a coveted #1 seed

Three weeks, 68 teams, 67 games, one national champion.  One loss and you’re done.  It doesn’t matter your seed, your talent level, how well you played in the regular season, or anything else.  Play and you win; lose and your dreams are crushed.  It’s madness… March Madness.  The 2012 NCAA Tournament bracket was finalized last night, and the amateur bracketologists are already crunching numbers, comparing strengths and weaknesses, and generally getting their tournament brackets in order as we speak.

Topping the four brackets are Syracuse in the East, Kentucky in the South, Michigan State in the West, and North Carolina in the Midwest. Traditional powerhouse Duke is one of the four teams to land a 2 seed.  Meanwhile, Pac-12 regular season champion Washington is the first Pac-10/12 regular season champion to not make the NCAA tournament, along with Drexel (who won 27 games this season), Mississippi State, and Seton Hall as teams that just barely missed the cut.

“There were 112 teams with more than 20 wins,” said NCAA selection committee chairman Jeff Hathaway.  “We talked a lot about parity at the high end of the field and about quality throughout the field.  Bottom line, it was about who did you play, where’d you play them and how did you do?”  He added, “We had five teams on the board, and we were talking about those five teams all morning and through that game to see where they’d be going.  There was a lot of conversation about those last five teams.”

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