2013 Murphspot Mascot Bracket - South - Round One - Part One

#1 Kansas Jayhawks vs #16 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers

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WHEE-HAH.

I'm sorry. I shouldn't announce my biases so blatantly. First, Kansas.

The Jayhawk isn't an actual bird, because birds naturally possess a sense that wearing buckles on your shoes is absolutely ridiculous and will naturally avoid doing so. Jayhawkers, on the other hand, were real abolitionists who got into border skirmishes with pro-slavery advocates during the Bleeding Kansas incidents, which would place them as one of the few team nicknames that actually have combat experience.

Dearest Kansas, why isn't this guy your mascot? Look at that hat. Magnificent.

A quick search also turned up this guy making a John Brown Jayhawk. John Brown was from Connecticut, so I'm not sure he counts as a Jayhawk, but that's pretty significantly more awesome than most of the mascot-inspired art I've come across in doing this bracket.

Big Red, on the other hand, is the Avatar of Joy. I don't know why I can't get over this thing. He's got a giant hinged head and apparently naturally forming shin guards and his design makes it impossible to find a picture where he doesn't look disturbingly happy. Maybe that's it. It's not just that he's giddy, it's that he's unnaturally giddy. Like the Hill in "Hilltopper" might be comprised entirely of the bones of his enemies.

Big Red knows your secrets and is positively overjoyed. Be afraid.

I have no idea how Big Red actually would fight, but that's what's frightening. In any case, "Hilltopper" implies superior tactical positioning, so we'll go with that.

Western Kentucky advances.

#8 North Carolina Tar Heels vs. #9 Villanova Wildcats

Villanova actually narrows down what they mean by "Wildcat" which is unexpected and sort of helpful. The regrettably named "Will D. Cat" is some manner of mutant bobcat with unnaturally blue eyes which I'm assuming means this is the bobcat version of the Kwisatz Haderach.

Fear is the mind-killer.

On the other hand, the Villanova logo incorporating Will seems like it should have someone standing off to the side yelling at the cat to get down right now and running at him with a spray bottle.

HEY. HEY. STOP THAT.

The Tar Heels nickname continues to be unhelpful as "Tar Heel" just refers to a resident of North Carolina which puts this just this side of "Montreal Canadiens" in terms of redundancy. Rameses has got some pretty threatening horns, but when it comes down to it, it's a sheep.

It's close, but I think I'm going to have to say that Villanova's mascot is very, very slightly more threatening.

Villanova advances.

#5 Virginia Commonwealth Rams vs. #12 Akron Zips

This bracket is turning out to be relatively ram-heavy. I wish I could say I was more intimidated by Rodney the Ram, but look at him.

He's got a heart-shaped nose. He looks like a giant teddy bear with post-factory horns thrown on. He seems like he might break into song, but not in a "my enemies lie vanquished before me" sort of way.

I have to hand it to Akron for just disregarding the idea that mascots need to make sense. The team itself is named after, as far as I can tell, a style of zippered galoshes which allows them pretty free roam with what to use as a mascot. Kangaroo would not have been my first guess. Kangaroos aren't, so far as I know, indigenous to northeastern Ohio, but my alma mater decided on a Gator despite being in northwestern Pennsylvania, so I'm not sure I can throw stones.

Sure, she's got a goofy beanie, but kangaroos can kick pretty hard and, once again, Rodney the Ram is more "adorable" than "menacing".

Akron advances.

#4 Michigan Wolverines vs. #13 South Dakota State Jackrabbits

I don't want to disparage the noble Jackrabbit. It's probably got the advantage in terms of knowing when his opponent is approaching and in pure Kennywood terms, Jackrabbit is slightly more exciting than Racer, but without the intense pain of Thunderbolt as far as the wooden coasters go.

Not many people know this, but most Leporids are classic roller-coaster enthusiasts.

The mascot himself looks like something out of an After School Special, but I'm pretty sure that's just the backwards cap. But while he might be phenomenal at convincing eight year olds to not bully other ten year olds or talk to strangers, he really doesn't stand a chance here.

Wolverines have the same tendency that most dogs I've known have to completely disregard their own size when deciding to get into a fight. Wikipedia not only lists rabbits as their natural prey, but deer, caribou and elk. If this thing is capable of mortally wounding large, even-toed ungulates, a rabbit in a hat has no chance.

Michigan advances.

2013 Murphspot Mascot Bracket - West - Round One - Part Two

#6 Arizona Wildcats vs. #11 Belmont Bruins

Again with the Wildcats. Arizona at least actually puts the person in the mascot suit in an actual suit rather than just an enormous Wildcat head. And he's depicted as having sharper teeth than I think actual Wildcats have, but I really don't know whether dental modifications are big in Arizona.

On the other hand, the mascot is surprisingly ugly. I'm not sure "weirdly sculpted eyebrows" or "emphasized whisker roots" are typical variations seen in nature, but let's say they are either because they'll intimidate possible threats or seeming like something you shouldn't bother eating because it will make you sick.

What, then, are we to make of the big floppy bucket hat? He looks like he's on his way to play Canasta. Other depictions more clearly show a blue Stetson, but if he's somehow ruined a Stetson into what's pictured above, I really don't have much faith he'd be able to put together an effective fight strategy.

Belmont, meanwhile, has a bear named Bruiser who appears in their logo to have decended into madness. Going by my previously established theorem ("Bears are basically monsters"), this isn't even close.

Belmont advances.

#3 New Mexico Lobos vs. #14 Harvard Crimson

A mascot is something for your team's fans to rally around; to claim as their own and to strike fear into the hearts of their opponents. The name does that as well. A good nickname can relay your team's perceived strengths against those of your opponent and provide the opportunity for fan groups of the name format [NICKNAME][SYNONYM FOR GROUP], often "X Nation" or "Y Pack", where Y is a pack animal.

Harvard went with Crimson. Which, I mean, is fine if you're into Pantone's color space. I'm not sure it evokes blood so much as it evokes "sober consideration", but hey. Let's go to the mascot, John Harvard.

No, no. Don't get up. 

The (Los?) Lobos are one of the many teams whose costumed mascot is significantly less impactful than their mascot's graphic.

The graphic is pretty fierce and pointy, while the best I can say about the mascot is that he's long-tongued, and I'm really not sure how that figures into the fight-or-flight reflex. Maybe it's poisonous. Then again, if it were, and New Mexico has poison wolves, I imagine that'd have shown up in Breaking Bad by now.

In the end, "clergyman/statesman" isn't really a match for "potentially poisonous wolf".

New Mexico advances.

#7 Notre Dame Fighting Irish vs. #10 Iowa State Cyclones

This close to St. Patrick's Day, I'm not sure whether to give Notre Dame a bonus for being vaguely topical or penalize for use of an overused cultural stereotype. I will say that it's a little refreshing that they don't go in with the big cartoony foam rubber headed monstrosity crowd and just have a guy put on a green suit with a yellow vest and call it a day.

Cy the Cardinal, on the other hand, comes to us from the depths of Nightmare. I'm not sure what it is about Cardinals specifically that leads mascot designers to jam a bunch of teeth in their mouths, but here we are again. Had they gone with some manner of tornado, we'd have an interesting matchup here. South Bend seems like it would probably be susceptible to that, but I'm not sure the Cheshire Cardinal here brings the same kind of terror.

In the end, one mascot is a small, if toothy, bird while the other is a grown man with a shillelagh.

Notre Dame wins.

#2 Ohio State Buckeyes vs. #15 Iona Gaels

Brutus and I haven't really gotten on well in the past. This mascot is all about who would be victorious on a field of battle, and frankly, a competitor that will only kill you if you eat him and a bunch of his kinfolk isn't really that threatening. I'm really, really trying not to let my feelings on the drive through Ohio affect my judgement here, but come on. 

Brutus is better than interminable flat terrain and omnipresent State Highway Police. I guess

The Gaels are a surprisingly small enthnolinguistic group to be represented twice so far in the bracket. Killian the Gael doesn't mess around with armor, but does have the most maniacal grin in the tournament, which is pretty impressive given the subject matter. He's also got a nefarious-ish beard, if C. Everett Koop was your idea of "nefarious".

My choices here are a mascot that would grow into a shade-tree if he were buried and a mascot who has obviously buried things that the authorities will never find.

Iona advances. Or whatever needs to happen to satisfy Killian. Please don't leave me alone with him.

2013 Murphspot Mascot Bracket - West - Round One - Part One

#1 Gonzaga Bulldogs vs. #16 Southern University Jaguars

I realize that the Mascot Bracket is entirely divorced from reality, but that doesn't mean I'm not going to spend a fair amount of time trying to figure out how a bulldog could possibly put up a fight against a jaguar. 

I'd default to just looking at what the mascots themselves look like.

So then. On one hand, we've got a surprisingly long bulldog named Spike with a pronounced underbite, sad eyes and sagging ankles.Southern University, on the other hand, has an actual Jaguar named Lacumba. Which seems like it'd be dangerous for either the actual Bulldog or the student in the Spike suit.

Let's check in with Wikipedia. Maybe Jaguars are natural pacifists or have taken a species wide vow to promote manners or something.

The jaguar has an exceptionally powerful bite, even relative to the other big cats. This allows it to pierce the shells of armoured reptiles and to employ an unusual killing method: it bites directly through the skull of prey between the ears to deliver a fatal bite to the brain.

Holy damn. We're all George Romero-esque zombies in the eyes of the Jaguar. I'm sorry, Spike. This thing bites you in the brain.

Southern University advances. Someone keep jaguars the hell away from me.

#8 Pittsburgh Panthers vs. #9 Wichita State Shockers

WuShock is weird. Which benefits him here. Panthers are researchable. I can figure out generally how a panther is likely to hunt and kill its prey, and what it would do if confronted with something that wanted to kill it. A shock of wheat, though? What am I supposed to do with that?

I can't tell if that's a turtleneck or if that's just how shirts fit on wheat. I rarely dress wheat.

I'm amused by the fact that they chose the shock of wheat and then slapped a scowl on him because mascots need a scowl. That's pretty forward thinking towards a time in which (in the near future) teams will become irrelevant and the competition will rightfully be held between mascots. 

My problem here is that I'm not sure how you kill a shock of wheat. It's already been harvested, so I guess the panther could just wait for the wheat to dry up. Panthers are obligate carnivores, so it won't eat the wheat. I guess fire could be a potential method of dealing with WuShock, but I really, really hope we haven't fallen into some horrible dimension where panthers can start fires.

When it comes down to it though, I also can't come up with a way in which some wheat will be able to beat a panther. I guess we are just left with the stalemate until the wheat dries up and crumbles.

Pittsburgh advances.

#5 Wisconsin Badgers vs. #12 Ole Miss Rebels

Ole Miss retired Colonel Reb in 2003, and took most of a decade to come up with a replacement. If they'd stuck with the Confederate officer, this would be a pretty strange fight to have to consider. Sure, Col. Reb probably has some firearms, or at the very least some manner of either functional or ceremonial sword, but he's also clearly in his seventies and looks suspiciously like Colonel Sanders. 

I'm not sure if having the character be from the 1880s or so was supposed to blunt the politics of the mascot or what, but an old man fighting a badger has got some potential. 

Rebel Black Bear is a bear, which would normally be covered by my "bears are basically monsters" rule, but for some reason I'm not feeling it here. Maybe it's because "Rebel Black Bear" is the most uninspiring name for a mascot that exists. Maybe it's because he's wearing Dockers. He should be able to destroy the badger,  but in slacks? 

Yes. I know the badger is wearing a sweater. Somehow, that seems ok for the moment, mostly because it's really cold in the northern midwest right now.

I'm going to say tenacity beats out pleats.

Wisconsin advances

#4 Kansas State Wildcats vs. #13 La Salle Explorers

Every year I've done this, I've made some comment about how Wildcats really aren't as fierce a competitor as they'd have you believe, since they're effectively the size of domestic cats. They're not exactly feral cats (which are definitely not much of a threat so long as they don't attack you with rabies), but I really can't imagine they'd be able to do much to stop pretty much any other mascot from doing what they will.

To say nothing of the fact that the mascot is just a head. They're barely trying. Or they are trying, and Willie is the result of some horrible genetic experimentation, in which case they should stop trying.

The Explorer looks like Tom Savini in a Union uniform, but I've got to believe he'd be able to take down a cat if for no other reason than if a generic explorer were turned away by a cat, we'd basically have never found anything as a species outside of direct line of sight. 

La Salle advances.

2013 Murphspot Mascot Bracket - Midwest - Round One, Part Two

#6 Memphis Tigers vs. #11 St. Mary's Gaels

There's a tendency to treat big cats like they're simply very large domestic cats, especially when they do things that cause them to superficially resemble housecats. It's a very dangerous tendency as big cats will kill you.

Come to think of it, housecats probably would too if they could. And, based on my experience with cats, it's entirely possible that tigers spend their nights running around their habitat as fast as they can knocking everything that's not well-secured down and waking up the neighbors.

Pictured: My cat and I anytime we're in the same room.

The point is, cats have murder and destruction in their souls.

The knight, as much of a knight as he is, has some manner of compressed air in his soul.

Seriously.

I realize the knight has weaponry and presumably had at least an elective in how to kill enormous wild animals, but a few hastily assembled readers and a sad "B" on an essay aren't going to do much to stop all of the tigers' very sharp parts from ripping through the mylar.

Memphis advances.

#3 Michigan State Spartans vs. #14 Valparaiso Crusaders

With these human-on-human matchups, it's tempting to just compare relative training, available arms and armor and the likelihood that any given mascot would actually want to start a fight. So, we have the Spartan vs. the Crusader.

For the moment, I'm going to overlook the  color scheme of the Crusader. I'm sure they've gotten enough flak for that.

The Spartan has undoubtedly been training for this for a longer period of time, but he's also got a pretty awful case of Giant Cartoon Mascot Head, which is a fairly large target, even if we accept that this tournament is taking place in the Who Killed Roger Rabbit universe. The Crusader has the sense to keep his visor down, so I'm thinking that his fighting style will be slightly more reserved and he'll be able to tire the Spartan out.

Valparaiso advances

#7 Creighton Bluejays vs. #10 Cincinnati Bearcats

It's the Fighting Binturongs vs. the Constant-Reminder-That-Ineffective-Coaching-Leads-to-Jose-Bautista-Being-Awesome-For-Not-the-Pirates. Hooray!

If Jose Bautista slightly adjusted his swing just a little bit further, there would be no sadness in the world.

I'm a little disappointed every year that Cincinnati's team isn't just called the Binturongs, but if you actually look at a picture of one, I can see how someone would see it in a tree and decide it's called a bearcat. Binturongs aren't all that objectively terrifying, but they've lucked out somewhat in matching up in the first round with a songbird.

This one comes in peace.

I'm sorry. I don't know why I'm anti-songbird this time around. They're nice and all, and I certainly don't condone underground songbird fighting, but they just don't strike me as something that would be good at eviscerating its opponent.

The Bearcat, on the otherhand, has this statue.

This one pretty emphatically does not come in peace.

If I were walking through a sylvan glen and that swung down at me, I'd fall down, then cry, then probably be eaten.

Cincinnati advances.

#2 Duke Blue Devils vs. #15 Albany Great Danes

I've spent the past six years trying to figure out if the Blue Devils are a French alpine military unit or some flowers or the entity that met Robert Johnson at the crossroads at midnight.

See? A BLUES devil. Because, see, there's a myth about Robert Johnson involving him trading his soul to the Devil at a crossroads at midnight in order to be awesome at guitar and please laugh at this. I'm very tired. Oh dear.

Moving on, this is the first time I think I've had to deal with the Great Danes, which is a shame because Niels Bohr and Scooby Doo are both pretty awesome.

The Mascot himself is pretty much what you'd expect; he's a large brown dog wearing appropriate footwear and a jersey, but I am a fan of the idea that he's been given a simple collar with a stylized A nametag instead of the overplayed studded leather Hot Topic nonsense. Hopefully, he's been chipped as well, so he'll be able to make his way back to Albany in the event that he gets lost.

Because I'm weary of having to figure out what the Blue Devil is and because Damien the Great Dane seems to have his wits about him, I'm going to say that preparedness is the key to this matchup.

Albany advances.

2013 Murphspot Mascot Bracket - Midwest - Round One, Part One

#1 Louisville Cardinals vs. #16 Liberty Flames

I went back and forth on this more than is warranted by a goofy mascot tournament. On one hand, if this is a straight-up bird battle, Liberty seems to have the edge; they've got a bird-of-prey as their mascot, whereas Louisville has a seed-eating songbird whose defining characteristic is not being able to hide well unless it's autumn or it has selected the CNA Center as the field of battle.Rams 

On the other hand, it bugs me when teams have a nickname that doesn't at all correspond to their mascot. I'm sort of fine with it when the name is something abstract, but if the UIC Flames can have a dragon who is also named Sparky, I feel Liberty could have put some more effort into this. 

Sparky D. Dragon is not relevant to this bracket, as UIC isn't in the tournament, but he's a dragon wearing sneakers. He stays.

Meanwhile, Cardinal Bird has some manner of mutation wherein he's been granted teeth and a frightening musculature and if you're ever in a car wreck caused by low blood sugar, he will pull you from the wreckage and comfort you. Actually, that alone is enough to sway it, at least for this round.

Louisville advances.

#8 Colorado State Rams vs #9 Missouri Tigers

Listen, I don't want to impugn the reputation of the noble bighorn sheep. I'm sure they're wonderful creatures who I wouldn't want to run into in a dark alley.

Mostly because I would start to have to question what life choices I'd made that had sent me down an alley with livestock. But maybe there's some sort of farm show I'm near and I'm within minutes of getting some fried cheese curds. That'd be fine.

I might stop the mascot bracket prematurely to just go sit at the Wisconsin State Fair grounds and wait.

In any case, the fact of the matter is that however effective CAM the Ram would be at fighting other rams, Mizzou's got a tiger. A tiger will kill a ram, eventually, regardless of the surrounding circumstances.

Missouri advances.

#5 Oklahoma State Cowboys vs. #12 Oregon Ducks

Ducks are fun. A duck once flew at my head, and it was startling. Frightening, though? I'm not sure I'd be able to get behind the idea that ducks are frightening.

Particularly not if the duck is wearing a jaunty beanie.

To be fair, if this were a matchup between the Duck and the Houston Cougars, I'd have actual precedent to run with as that has already happened.

But it's not. This is a battle between the Duck and the empty-eyed, shellac-faced Pistol Pete, whose hat appears to be a melted traffic cone.

I don't think they let you call yourself a cowboy if you can't successfully fight a duck. I'm pretty sure whatever cowboy credentials the Federal Cowboy Agency grants you are revoked.

Oklahoma State advances.

#4 St. Louis Billikens vs. #13 New Mexico State Aggies

Damn it, Billiken, I had just recovered.

I get it. Sort of. The Billiken is based on a doll designed by a Missouri art teacher in the early 1900s and it's supposed to be a good luck totem and may or may not have resembled a football coach at SLU. So that's one thing.

Of course, its foam-rubber mascot form is full of life and happiness and is some sort of vampire bat thing which is in your closet right now (that last bit is best read if you've turned off all of the lights and are reading this alone while a squeaky windvane is just outside your window.)

The Aggies nickname is pretty indistinguishable from the other aggies, but the mascot's got a Mustache of Justice and a Righteoulsly-Oversized-Belt-Buckle of Fury.

I'm going to hope that whatever precious metal you need to stop a Billiken is castable into something that'll fire from those revolvers because someone stop it it's coming for me please send help.

New Mexico State advances.

2013 Murphspot Mascot Bracket - Play In Round

#16 North Carolina A&T Aggies vs. #16 Liberty Flames

I'm not sure what the bulldog is doing here. I'm assuming the intended imagery is that he's leaping at you, but I don't know how many bulldogs attack by lunging with their front paws. It's possible the back half of the image involves the remains of Durin's Bridge and an either winged or wingless Balrog depending on which side of that argument you come down on falling to the depths below while the Noble Bulldog tells Frodo et al. run to elsewhere in Greensboro. The Liberty Flames on the other hand, have a nickname that sounds like what William Tecumseh Sherman would have called his particular brand of burning everything in sight down if he'd been trying to be message-conscious. Their mascot is an eagle named Sparky, which is precious. Based on the most recent reboots of Oregon Trail, I'm thinking an eagle could probably carry away a dog. Even if that dog has a spiked collar. 

Liberty University advances. And that's a sentence I'd never thought I'd type.

#11 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders vs. #11 St. Mary's Gaels

As discussed previously, the Saint Mary's Gaels mascot is an apparently inflatable knight named Gael Force One. I'm going to assume this is some sort of commentary on the helium crisis. 

Gael Force One is non-renewable and could be lost to us forever if he escapes the atmosphere.

For the purposes of the bracket, I'll assume that his Mylar balloon qualities are a red herring and that he is, in fact, some manner of knight. He's going up against an improbably blue horse named Lightning. That seems tame enough, but their original mascot was Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate general and founder of the Ku Klux Klan. Having your mascot be the founder of the Klan finally was realized to be a bad idea in the 70's, and they eventually settled on Forrest's horse as a replacement. Even extricating all of the politics, I'm going to have to say a knight could take down a horse if only because if horses could organize and kill knights, they'd have done that by now.

St. Mary's advances.

#16 LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds vs. #16 James Madison Dukes

Ok. So, I'm starting to get bulldogs as a mascot; they're presumably tenacious and angry and have fun jowls that work well in the cartoony style of mascot drawing. And I get that studded collars are a thing that's usually going to accompany the cartoon bulldog mascot. But what is going on here? I'll give Duke Dog the benefit of the doubt and assume that's the appropriate attire for him in the Duchy of Harrisonburg, Virginia, but it's still going to throw me off. 

The blackbird has the Beatles (well, Paul, anyway) and apparently was sacred in Classical Greek folklore, but they're also at risk of being baked in a pie and their main predator is the domestic cat, which doesn't inspire a lot of confidence. I've got a cat. I've seen the cat hunt and kill feathered cat dancers and it's pretty ferocious, but if the blackbird can't stand up to that, it's got no chance against nobility. 

James Madison advances.

#13 Boise State Broncos vs. #13 La Salle Explorers

So there's that. 

On the other hand, we've got a battle between another blue horse and a man with a feather in his hat, a Van Dyke and a telescope. At the very least, the Explorer is going to have some advanced warning of the oncoming Bronco. Presumably he's got some surveying gear which is probably pretty pointy. Buster Bronco, on the other hand, has disturbingly human eyes.

No, it's fine. I was done with REM-sleep for the rest of my life anyway.

Broncos are feral horses, and just so that I can stop looking deep into the soul of Buster there, I'm going to assume that somewhere in the training to explore there's some manner of training on "how to tame a horse." I mean, hell, it took five or so minutes in Red Dead Redemption, and that's pretty much reality, right? Right.

La Salle advances.

2013 Murphspot Mascot Bracket - The Rules

It's Mid-March again. The snow has melted in Chicago until at least later tonight, the sun is setting at a reasonable hour and it's time once again to determine who would win the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament if the world were rational and this nonsense were decided by which mascot could win in a fight to the death.

Every time I do this, I tend to lose the thread and wind up with pages and pages on the first few rounds and a few sad, struggling paragraphs at the end of the tournament before crowning whoever either has a gun or is a dragon. So, this time around, some actual rules.

I. Self-Enforced Guideline for Entries:  I'm going to try to keep each match-up at around 150-200 words; hopefully that'll lead to a slightly more consistent feel overall.

II. Higher Seed Selects Field of Battle: The fact that we're (in terms of mascots, not actual basketball ability) just throwing teams together here can lead to a number of problems. If a dugong is fighting a springbok, where is that happening? The springbok'll drown in the dugong's natural habitat and the dugong will do whatever a dugong would do if you put it in central Namibia. Probably it would not go well. So, rather than just picking at random, I'll assume that the battlefield is in the habitat of the higher-seeded mascot. I'm also not sure anyone has ever used the contraction "springbok'll" in the context college basketball.

III. Similarly Named Teams to be Decided on Fierceness of Mascot, or, Failing That, Team Logo: There was probaby a way to come up with a name for this rule that didn't involve just making a terrible newspaper headline out of it, but this is madness so I won't bother.

IV. Earlier Matches May Be Precedent-Setting: It's difficult to say whether a Banded Mongoose taking down a Golden Mole in the first round should mean that it'll do the same to another mole encountered in the Elite Eight. Fatigue seems like it should play a factor, but for the most part, I'm going to let the Mongoose/Mole precedent stand. This will be the first to be discarded when I get sick of it.

So we'll see how that works. Next up: 2013 Murphspot Mascot Bracket - First Four. I'll be editing this post as we go to include links to the matchups as they happen.

Round One
First Four
Midwest - Round One - Part One
Midwest - Round One - Part Two
West - Round One - Part One
West - Round One - Part Two
South - Round One - Part One
South - Round One - Part Two
East - Round One - Parts One and Two

Round Two
Midwest
West
South
East

Sweet Sixteen
Midwest/West
South/East

Elite Eight

Final Four and Championship