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Louisville, Pittsburgh, North Carolina and Connecticut are the top seeds in the NCAA men's basketball tournament. The Cardinals are the top seed in the entire tournament, as well the Midwest, while Pittsburgh is No. 1 in the East, Carolina in the South and Connecticut in the West. All but North Carolina come from the Big East. This marks the first time three top seeds have come from the same conference. During a week of conference tournaments in which very little went to form, Louisville came out with a championship to seal its No. 1 seed. Connecticut lost a six-overtime thriller to Syracuse in the Big East quarterfinals, but that wasn't enough to drop the Huskies out of a top spot. Midwest Region Seeds 1. Louisville 2. Michigan State 3. Kansas 4. Wake Forest 5. Utah 6. West Virginia 7. Boston College 8. Ohio State 9. Siena 10. USC 11. Dayton 12. Arizona 13. Cleveland State 14. North Dakota State 15. Robert Morris 16. Alabama State/Morehead State West Region Seeds 1. Connecticut 2. Memphis 3. Missouri 4. Washington 5. Purdue 6. Marquette 7. California 8. BYU 9. Texas A&M 10. Maryland 11. Utah State 12. Northern Iowa 13. Mississippi State 14. Cornell 15. Cal State Northridge 16. Chattanooga East Region Seeds 1. Pittsburgh 2. Duke 3. Villanova 4. Xavier 5. Florida State 6. UCLA 7. Texas 8. Oklahoma State 9. Tennessee 10. Minnesota 11. Virginia Commonwealth 12. Wisconsin 13. Portland State 14. American University 15. Binghamton 16. East Tennessee State South Region Seeds 1. North Carolina 2. Oklahoma 3. Syracuse 4. Gonzaga 5. Illinois 6. Arizona State 7. Clemson 8. LSU 9. Butler 10. Michigan 11. Temple 12. Western Kentucky 13. Akron 14. Stephen F. Austin 15. Morgan State 16. Radford
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