NCAA tournament Selection Sunday bracket breakdown

The NCAA tournament bracket is set, and you can feel free to start making your travel plans.

The participants in each of the four regional sites – Manchester, N.H.; Fargo, N.D.; Bridgeport, Conn.; and Allentown, Penn. – have been assigned by the committee, and there were relatively few surprises. That's true in part because the seeding worked out in such a way that no one was going to have a real right to complain about where they ended up.

The No. 1 team had a regional relatively close by, as did No. 2, which made it easy for No. 3 and 4 to be assigned elsewhere, and so on down the list.

There were a few conflicts, such as the Nos. 8 and 9 and Nos. 2 and 15 teams being in the same conference – and therefore by NCAA rule unable to play each other in the first round of the tournament – but the