Syracuse: First Thoughts

UNC over the 16th seed and Iowa State, Florida over Ohio and Villanova, Kansas over Bucknell and Wisconsin, Connecticut over UCF and N.C. State. Then UNC over Kansas in the final, just so half the sports broadcasters in country spontaneously combust, and a golden age of intelligent talking head can descend over our athletic community.

It's a pretty steep draw, all things considered. I have no idea which Big East teams will show up -- my sinking suspicion is they switch teams between games just to confuse everybody outside of the Northeast. There are a couple of teams just beginning to find their groove (Florida, Iowa St. and N.C. State), a couple of old stalwarts always comfortable in March (Kansas, Wisconsin), and multiple Wolf Packs. We'll see.