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This year’s South region in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament features a lot more than just your hometown University of Colorado Buffaloes. From the tournament’s overall top seed Kansas to the best First Four game ever — Vanderbilt and Wichita State’s battle for the 11 seed — the South will produce some high-octane matchups from day one through next month’s Final Four in April.
Head coach Bill Self’s Kansas Jayhawks enter this year’s NCAA Tournament as the top overall seed after a 2015-16 season where no one team distinguished itself at the top for any significant period of time.