Brackets released, Illinois goes solo

The NCAA March Madness brackets were released Sunday evening. The four number one seeds are Louisville, UConn, Pitt, and N Carolina. I was definitely suprised and dissapointed that Louisville got a 1 seed. Louiscilly really didn't impress me all that much during the season. Notre Dame beat them by 20+ points in the most recent game.

As far as the local teams only one college in the state of Illinois got in and that was U of I. The Illini got a 5 seed, which kind of suprised me, and will play W Kentucky. They are playing in the Southern regional. Other midwestern teams that got in were Marquette, Purdue, Michigan St, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio St, and Wisconsin.

Local teams that had their bubbles burst are Notre Dame and Northwestern. Both of these teams had slim hopes anyways and blew their chances tword the end of the season.

The most interesting regional in my opinion is the Southern regional. Illinois and Michigan are both in this regional. However, what is most interesting about this regional is that UNC is the 1 seed and Duke is the 2 seed.

Should be an interesting March/April. GO ILLINI!!!