Welcome to one of the best Sweet 16s ever.
Due to the fact that there were a limited amount of upsets in the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament, we will have a stacked Sweet 16. If the selection committee made a tournament that needed just 16 teams then it would almost look exactly like this.
On the right side of the bracket (East and South Regions), chalk has held serve. Both regions still have their No. 1, 2, 3, and 4 seeds alive. In the Midwest and West Regions, the No. 1, 2 and 3 seeds are still kicking. The only "surprise teams" left in the dance are No. 5 Purdue in the West (and many felt they were better than No. 4 Washington) and Arizona, who is the Midwest's No. 12.
All of the top three seeds in each region are alive along with pretty much every team that was fashioned a championship caliber squad. There are some epic match-ups looming. How is North Carolina-Gonzaga for you? Memphis-Missouri? Michigan State-Kansas? Oklahoma-Syracuse? Duke-Villanova?
Even those sneaky seeds of Purdue and Arizona have a good chance to beat UConn and Louisville, respectively. Only three non-BCS teams remain (Memphis, Gonzaga, Xavier) and all three are the class of the non-BCS bunch.
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