After four months of winnowing, the greatest single-elimination contest is sports is set to begin. From 363 D1 basketball programs, 68 have been chosen to spend three weekends playing for the sport’s national title. Each of the four regions will battle to send one representative to the Final Four. First up is the East.
This is going to be a wide open region. If you just divided the regions up by math, you’d expect each one to have 5 teams out of the top 20. The East only has four, and they’re not dispersed along the seed lines the way you’d expect.