NCAA Announces Men's March Madness Field

The NCAA has announced their March Madness field. The 65 team tournament will start on Wednesday with the "play-in" game between the 64th and 65th seeded teams, before the tournament really kicks into full speed with sixteen games on Thursday and Friday each, those will be followed by eight games each on Saturday and Sunday. By the time these 48 games are completed the initial field of 65 teams will have been narrowed down to the "sweet sixteen" and a lot of teams hopes and dreams (and seasons) will have ended.

In this year's tournament the four number one seeds are: Florida (the #1 seed overall) in the Midwest Region; North Carolina in the East Region; Ohio State in the South Region; and Kansas in the West Region. Before the conference tournaments began UCLA was expected to receive a #1 seed, but they lost in the first round of their conference tournament. The NCAA tournament committee has spent the past weekend in isolation watching all of the tournament conference games deciding which teams decide a spot in the tournament. Thirty one of the sixty spots in the tournament are based on agreements the conferences have with the league to have their league tournament champion represent the conference. The remaining thirty four spots are determined by the committee. Generally entering the final weekend there are anywhere from six to twelve "bubble teams" fighting for a certain amount of spots. These are usually the last spots in the tournament, and range from anywhere from three to six spots that those teams are battling over.