March Madness is bigger this year.

Better?

Most of the Big East Conference thinks. Colorado, Virginia Tech, St. Mary's and probably some others disagree.

The opening of the console of the NCAA tournament on Sunday, including a record 11 teams in one conference, the Big East and the usual number of slights and disappointments, despite the increase from 65 to 68 teams

"It 's amazing," said the coach Tad Boyle, Colorado, with a reputation hurt teams left out. "There is nothing to say so do not complain and cry."

Leading the way for the Big East has been Pittsburgh, ranked first in the Southeast, but has not won a playoff game in the conference tournament.

The Panthers (27-5) need to win six in a row to cut the nets at the Final Four in Houston on April 4, when America's largest office-pool ends.

"What we have done in the past is good, but that does not mean much once you start playing in the tournament," said Pitt coach Jamie Dixon. "We have to go play basketball and good, and we need to improve on these days."

Ohio State (32-2) was seeded Big Ten tournament in general, Kansas (32-2) Big 12 next.

Defending champion Duke aced out another Big East team, Notre Dame, the fourth and final N. 1 seed.

Led by one of the best goalkeepers, Nolan Smith, the Blue Devils (30-4) are trying to become the first team since Florida in 2006-07 to the national title.

The tournament will have a different look this year, thanks in addition to three other, larger teams, which will open a "First Four" on Tuesday and Wednesday. Two of them play well last year, large groups can make a field-UAB (22-9) vs. Clemson (21-11) and Southern Cal (19-14) vs. Virginia Commonwealth (23-11).

These, and all other games throughout the tournament will be broadcast in full on the four networks.

Before the start of the season, TBS, TNT and truTV CBS joined in signing a new television contract for 14-year deal worth $ 10.8 million. Games for all shown on CBS, the network to decide which part of the country with the games. Now, viewers can choose from.

But all the added money and television coverage does not go thinking again.

As always in the selection on Sunday, there were many large head.

It was the team that has surprised some getting in: VCU, UAB and Clemson.

There were teams that surprised some people are despised: Colorado, Virginia Tech, Harvard, Alabama and St. Mary's.

St. Mary's snub may have produced a first: a coach who prefer college football widely mocked method to determine the champion of college basketball.

"As a coach, the players all want to know that you've given a lot of" Gaels coach Randy Bennett said. The 'Your numbers have to go, just like the `-BCS Bowl Championship Series.

The Selection Committee Chairman Gene Smith of Ohio said members researched the resumes of the bubble teams as thoroughly as he can remember. His research has revealed that there is room for five teams in the broadest sense, with 14 defeats in 26 years to date that support has expanded to 64 teams had produced a total of six.

"When we look at these teams have quality teams Some of his government that we have taken into account, and we simply do not have enough output, of course, all teams that have been, even though we had three more starting this year" he said.

The Big East had no complaints. Almost three quarters of the conference, made another banner day for the league was formed in 1979 for basketball and is credited for helping to transform the series of this sport in a three-week event that takes America and through the office group and overwhelming love of foreigners who may have hit the jackpot.

Last year was the last loser Butler, the 4500-student campus team, which came less than two points in the title game against Duke. The Bulldogs (23-9) had not been so strong this season, but still made a draw and will have no 9 Old Dominion on Thursday.

Other interesting combinations are:

- Louisville against Morehead State, Kentucky a couple of teams that have to travel to Denver for their first game.

- UNLV vs. Iowa at a meeting of the current technical team Lon Kruger old cons.

- San Diego State in the same bracket as Michigan, which means that the Aztecs coach Steve Fisher could have done with school he left in controversy after leading the Fab Five with wolverine.

- Our Lady was a bit disappointed to receive a No. 2 seed, but a short trip to Chicago for his first game against Akron.

"I think we had a lot of set one, quite frankly," coach Mike Brey said. "We were pretty good run. Just delete the numbers and look at today's matchups. Take the seeds of the names of the teams' time, and you must try to win the tournament in Chicago."

The Big Ten placed seven teams, including a two-Penn State and Michigan State with 14 losses each. Led by rookie Jared Sullings great man, Ohio State was rewarded with the opening games of the week on the road to Cleveland. The Buckeyes open against the winner of Texas-San Antonio and the State of Alabama, a pair of sixteenth-seeded teams also play in the first four days early.

The Big 12 and Southeastern Conference had five teams each, while the Pac-10 and the Atlantic coast remains four. list included the usual ACC, Duke and North Carolina and Florida State and Clemson, but not from Boston College, which finished 20-12.

"I put us in the first two against anyone.'ll Put our half of the package against anyone stuck in the" BC coach Steve Donahue said. "But there are still 11 different league and 3 1 / 2, the second principle. I do not see radical differences. I am honest."

Of the 37 teams at large, 30 are from the first six conferences and seven were from mid-major conferences that provide so-called outsiders and strangers, who turned the NCAA Tournament what it is. The seven were one fewer than last year, but there were three seats available.

This year also marks the return of joining the Big East tournament champion Connecticut, with UCLA, Arizona and 2009 champion North Carolina, a quartet of perennial plants, which left the tournament last year and has led many experts to call 2010 the sector, one of the weakest of the time.

Some of the same ideas are repeated again this year, and the teams stayed away from the loudest cry.

"What I'd like to know if there ever was a team that won nine games in the ACC and played in the program that we have non-conference play and defeated No. 1 seed and still can not be reached," said Virginia Tech coach Seth Greenberg, who has found a fan for four years, the choice on Sunday. "I'd like to see research into that."

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