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Vanderbilt 4th seed playing Muarry State (and if they get past that the winner of Butler/UTEP)
Muarry State is the sort of team that Vandy should handle easily except they are athletic and very, very well coached. Same issue with the other two teams they get... I was going to say this no matter who they drew :-) Vandy are so, so talented and they do so, so little with it.

Gonzaga's loss to St Mary's dropped them from a probably 5th seed to an 8th seed playing Florida State. That is pretty rough but it also says what the committe thinks of the WCC beyond Gonzaga and St Mary's. More and more likley SMC gets a 11th or 12th seed which is WAY low.

St Mary's are going to be in the South.... last bracket announced. There are some, tough, tough teams left to be placed. 10th seed versus Richmond! A very, very winnable game! I think SMC moved up from a 12th to a 10th seed with their win over Gonzaga.

Old Dominion (Perth guard Trian Iliadis, Soph) get a 11th seed against Notre Dame. This is a winnable game. Notre Dame is playing really well but didn't deserve to be seeded this high.

Florida shouldn't of got in and got an undeserved 10th seed.. but they did. Minnesota is a bit of a crappy pick as well. There were more deserving teams than these two. Notre Dame deserved to be in but they got a way too high seed. No way are they a 6th seed. Sienna got the best luck as a 13th seed - they get #4 Purdue who are without their best player and they have been playing like it.

I wasn't overly surprised with the teams selected, but this years seeding's seemed to be a little off.

More analysis on the bracket after I go eat :-)

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Here is the list of Australians and their respective teams that will feature is years NCAA tournament

AJ Ogilvy (Vanderbilt)
Josh Duinker (University of Richmond)
Trian Iliadis (Old Dominion University)
Ben Allen, Matthew Dellavedova, Mitchell Young, Clint Steindl, Jorden Page (St Mary's Gaels) AKA Australia University

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Shame the likes of Anatoly Bose and Cody Ellis won't feature at all :-(

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Cody Ellis' team are all underclassman. so St Louis will have a big chance to make the NCAA's next year and so forth. They just need to add some size - doesn't really have to be all that skilled size.

Ok, I filled a couple of brackets out. My initial impression was pretty right - all the right teams made it in to the tourney but the seedings and placement of teams really is a little bizarre. Duke who were supposed to be the #3 1st seed get the easiest draw - they might not play a hard game until the final four.

Kansas - lots of hard teams in their bracket, but most of them beat up on each other and Kansas probably has to only play one of them,

Kentucky - bracket has less great teams, but Kentucky is going to have to play at least 2 of them to get to the final 4

West Virginia deserved a better seed and a better draw.

Florida, Notre Dame and Minnesota all over seeded. Gonzaga didn't deserve to go all the way down to a #8 seed - they should be in Notre Dame's spot at 6. Temple got screwed over for seeding as well - the should be a 3.

Vandy's 4 seeding is generous. They can't seem to put two games together.

St Mary's got a reasonable seeding and a reasonable opponent. So did Old Dominion