Upon Further Review

In terms of toughest bracket, no question its the Midwest, which is rather illogical due to the Midwest having the number one overall seed. If ranked by seed, I would say the Midwest has the best 1-seed, 2-seed, 3-seed, 5-seed, 7-seed, 9-seed, and 10-seed. I also think there's an argument for Tennessee as the best 6-seed, and the "experts" have been talking about 11 San Diego State and 12 New Mexico State as well. Obviously I'm not an expert and all of those seedings could be argued, but there are some pretty good teams with the likes of Kansas, Ohio State, Georgetown, Michigan State, and Tennessee. The bracket also includes the likely National Player of the Year, as well as 6 coaches that have coached a Final Four team, 5 of which have made it to the Championship Game, and 3 of those being National Title winning coaches.

The weakest bracket is the definitely the West bracket. In my opinion it has the weakest top 2 seeds, and I wouldn't be totally surprised if any of the top 6 seeds came out of this bracket. That is also the reason I think Old Dominion is the most likely team to have a chance to pull a George Mason, even having the same seed at 11. Keep in mind I will not be picking that, but the bracket sets up the best for it. At the same time I wouldn't be surprised to see the 11, 12, or 13 seeds win in this bracket.... but which to pick in my bracket... that will require some further thought.

As for the first round games that I think have the chance to be the most intriguing/entertaining. 8/9 games always have potential with the Louisville v. Cal being a good matchup, though given thats just a bad teams from good conferences game, I'll take the UNLV v. UNI game. Mountain West had a solid season with four teams making the bracket and Northern Iowa, having won both the regular season and tournament title in the Missouri Valley, is a solid team. 7/10s are good games and the maybe one of the best first round match-ups is Big XII player of the year James Anderson and Okie State v. Georgia Tech, a very talented but inconsistent team. I also like 6 Notre Dame v. 11 Old Dominion, 6 Xavier v. 11 Minnesota, 5 Temple v. 12 Cornell, and 4 Purdue v. 13 Siena. Thursday and Friday are two of the best days on the sports calendar, hopefully it lives up to the billing!