By Dalton Del Don – Senior Writer

Sweet Sixteen – (Midwest) Florida, Maryland, Notre Dame, Georgia Tech (West) Kansas, Virginia Tech, Duke, UCLA (East) UNC, Texas, Wash. St., Georgetown, (South) Ohio St., Tenn, Texas A&M, Creighton

Elite Eight – Maryland, Notre Dame, Kansas, UCLA, UNC, Georgetown, Ohio St., Texas A&M

Final Four – Maryland, Kansas, UNC, Texas A&M

Finals – Kansas v. North Carolina

Winner – Kansas

Notes: I hope fellow RotoScoop scribe Robby is wrong about the Pac-10 being so good, because I have them losing early and often, with only UCLA (and Wash. St., who isn’t any good, but excels on the road and has easy matchups) winning multiple games…The ACC seems like the best conference to me, evidenced by my two Final Four picks as well as G. Tech and Duke making some noise…I’m not a fan of Florida, mainly because Joakim Noah annoys me. No chance a team repeats…Villanova scares me round 2, but I see Kansas as having one of the easiest paths to the finals…In a vacuum, there’s no doubt UNC has the most talent and is probably the best team in college basketball. The problem, however, is that their path is probably the toughest. Not only is Texas a challenging early matchup (although I think Texas is a tad overrated at this point), but Georgetown is legit, and Texas A&M (or Ohio St) is an extremely tough semi-finals. So I hedged my bets by having UNC only making the finals, not winning it…No team in the tournament has fewer road wins than No.4 seed Virginia, so look for them to get bounced early (go Albany!)…The lowest seed (No.10) I have winning multiple games is Creighton, as I’m not a huge believer in Memphis…Texas A&M is legit and could easily take this whole thing, and I switched UNC in the finals over them last second, never a wise maneuver. Kansas over UNC, book it.

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