March 14th update

NCAA Preview - Midwest Region

• This region features the 3rd overall #1 seed in the North Carolina Tar Heels. The Heels, the ACC regular season champions, look to make the Final Four for the first time since winning the National Championship in 2009. The Kansas Jayhawks, who the Heels lost to in 2008, are the #2 seed, the Georgetown Hoyas are the #3 seed and the Michigan Wolverines round out the top 4.
• This region features two “first round games” (or as more commonly referred to as “play in games”). The head coach of the Lamar Cardinals (who play the Vermont Catamounts in the first round) is the son of former Indiana and Texas Tech coach Bobby Knight. Pat Knight, was an assistant under his father, and is now making his own way.
• The Baylor Bears who started the season strongly, faltered down the stretch and ended up as the #3 seed in the Midwest. They are lead by future NBA player Perry Jones whose decision to attend Baylor lead their men's basketball team back to prominence.


NCAA Preview - East Region

• The East Region is headlined by the 2nd overall #1 seed, the Syracuse Orange. The Ohio State Buckeyes are the second team in the region, followed by the ACC tournament Champion Florida State Seminoles and the Wisconsin Badgers out of the Big 10.
• The East region is home to the “nerd bowl” when the #5 Vanderbilt Commodores take on the #12 Harvard Crimson. Harvard made the tournament for the first time in almost 70 years, will play one of the few schools who can compete with them in the SAT department as well as on the basketball court.
• In the past day, news broke that should change the landscape of this region, and possibly the NCAA tournament as a whole. Syracuse center, Fab Melo, has been declared ineligible for the rest of the season. Melo’s absence should hurt the Orange as they rely heavily on a big man to clog the center of the defensive end of the court. Melo, who missed a couple games earlier in the year due to eligibility questions, has played in 31 of the 33 games the Orange played this season and should be greatly missed in the tournament.