Duke Gets No. 1 seed

After winning the ACC championship earlier today, the Blue Devils were granted a No. 1 seed in the South region.

The real surprise isn't that Duke was granted a top seed--the team has the No. 3 RPI in the country and won both conference titles--but that it was ranked above Syracuse by the committee. The Orange were the No. 1 team in the nation before losing their season finale to Louisville and dropping in the first game of the Big East Tournament to then-No. 22 Georgetown.

Should Duke advance to the Final Four, it will face the team to emerge from the East regional, headed by No. 1 Kentucky. We'll fill you in on the details of the Blue Devils' bracket as they appear.

UPDATE: Duke will play the winner of the play-in game between Winthrop and Arkansas Pine-Bluff. The rest of the bracket includes No. 8 California, No. 9 Louisville, No. 5 Texas A&M, No. 12 Utah St., No. 4 Purdue, No. 13 Siena, No. 2 Villanova, No. 15 Robert Morris, No. 7 Richmond, No. 10 Saint Mary's, No. 3 Baylor, No. 14 Sam Houston St., No. 6 Notre Dame and No. 11 Old Dominion.