BRACKET! Here is your printable online NCAA Basketball Tournament Bracket 2010. These NCAA Basketball Tournament Bracket 2010 show the Men’s College Basketball Tourney’s schedule, locations, and invited teams after the NIT selection show Sunday.

The NCAA Basketball Tournament Bracket 2010 puts Duke at number 1. But what does the NCAA Basketball Tournament Bracket do with the bubble teams, the Tourney teams with player injuries, and the NCAA men’s basketball programs that won but against weaker schools?

All those questions were answered Sunday at the NCAA press conference. From bubble teams to non-invites like UCLA, many questions were asked of the NCAA head Sunday.

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What happened to schools in the Power Conference? D-I Basketball Committee Chairman Dan Guerrero answered that Sunday.

“Q. I noticed that New Mexico is the only top four seed not from a power conference. How close were teams like Butler and Temple moving from the 5 line up to the 4?”

“DAN GUERRERO: Well, it’s real hard to say, you know, how close any one team was from any particular seed. All teams get a very serious look as we go through the process of seeding. And we compare one team versus another.

“We’ll do an initial seed list. We’ll put them on the board, and then we spend a lot of time scrubbing that list. Don’t worry about conference affiliation or anything of that nature. It’s simply going down the seed list and when you’re comparing one team versus another. We talk through each of those situations. We do that early in the process as we first start to put teams in, and then we continue to do that throughout the entire weekend.

“Obviously, the key is to put the best 34 teams out there and to seed them in a manner that we feel is appropriate. And when it’s all said and done, the field that we put forward with the seeds, with the teams on their respective lines, is exactly what we thought was best for the tournament.”

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He also answered what happened to Wake Forest versus Virgina Tech.

“Q. In that same vein, when you talk about strength of schedule, what about head to head competition? I’m thinking of Wake Forest got a 9 seed after losing I believe five of their last six games, including one to Virginia Tech. That was a rather weak finish on their part. Why did they get in ahead of Virginia Tech there?

“DAN GUERRERO: Well, when you talk about Wake Forest, we looked at the quality of the victories that they, in fact, had in conference as being a real plus. They had six top 50 wins, including nine conference wins over Xavier, Richmond and Gonzaga. When you have a conference that has an unbalanced schedule, certainly schools sometimes don’t have the opportunity to dictate who they’re going to play.

“But in terms of Wake Forest, they had a formidable schedule in their particular conference, and the committee felt that they did reasonably well with that. The other thing is when you’re evaluating teams, you’re not just evaluating, for example, a Wake Forest versus Virginia Tech, you’re evaluating both those teams against all the other teams that are potentially in the field. So no one game gets a team in, no one game puts you out. Head to head certainly does have some bearing, but you have to look at the entire body of work before you say that’s the final criteria.”

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2010 BRACKETS

• Opening-Round Game
March 16, 2010
UD Arena (Dayton, Ohio)

• First Two Rounds
March 18, 20, 2010
New Orleans Arena (New Orleans)
Dunkin Donuts Center (Providence, R.I.)
HP Pavilion (San Jose, Calif.)
Ford Center (Oklahoma City, Okla.)

March 19, 21, 2010
HSBC Arena (Buffalo, N.Y.)
Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena (Jacksonville, Fla.)
Bradley Center (Milwaukee, Wisc.)
Spokane Memorial Arena (Spokane, Wash.)

• East Regional
March 25, 27, 2010
Carrier Dome (Syracuse, N.Y.)

• West Regional
March 25, 27, 2010
Energy Solutions Arena (Salt Lake City, Utah)

• Midwest Regional
March 26, 28, 2010
Edward Jones Dome (St. Louis)

• South Regional
March 26, 28, 2010
Reliant Stadium (Houston)

• National Semifinals
April 3, 2010
Lucas Oil Stadium (Indianapolis)

• Championship Game
April 5, 2010
Lucas Oil Stadium (Indianapolis)

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