Let’s just dispense with one thing: other than the first game, who cares who’s in what bracket? It always drives us crazy when people say a bracket is loaded. At most, you can only play four of them and if you’re going to win, you’re going to have to play the best teams sometime. It’s just a bad way of thinking about it. No one guarantees anyone a “fair” path to the Final Four. You just have to win.
So for the West to have Gonzaga, Duke, Texas Tech and Arkansas - big deal. It’s not like it’s four #1 seeds.