Favorite: We'll say Georgetown, since the Hoyas won the regular-season title, clinching it with a win against Louisville last week. But Louisville and Notre Dame finished just one game back of Georgetown, and fourth-seeded Connecticut one game back of them, so the semifinals should be closely contested. All seven meetings between the top four seeds were won by the home team.
Dark horse: Will it be like last year, when the top four seeds made the semifinals, or return to the chaos of 2006, when ninth-seeded Syracuse beat sixth-seeded Pittsburgh in the final? We'll go with Louisville, which had won nine straight before the Georgetown loss, but look out for sixth-seeded Marquette, which took the Hoyas to overtime and beat Notre Dame by 26.
Greg Auman, Times staff writer
| Opening round Today |
Quarterfinals Thursday |
Semifinals Friday |
Final Saturday |
Semifinals Friday |
Quarterfinals Thursday |
Opening round Today |
| No. 1 Georgetown | No. 2 Louisville | |||||
| No. 8 Villanova | Noon, ESPN | 7 p.m., ESPN | No. 7 Pittsburgh | |||
| Noon, ESPN | No. 8/9 winner | No. 7/10 winner | 7 p.m., ESPN | |||
| No. 9 Syracuse | No. 10 Cincinnati | |||||
| 7 p.m., ESPN | 9 p.m., ESPN | 9 p.m., ESPN | ||||
| No. 5 W. Virginia | No. 6 Marquette | |||||
| 2 p.m., ESPN | No. 5/12 winner | No. 6/11 winner | 9 p.m., ESPN | |||
| No. 12 Providence | 2 p.m., ESPN | 9 p.m., ESPN | No. 11 Seton Hall | |||
| No. 4 Connecticut | No. 3 Notre Dame |
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