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March Madness: Which is the “Region of Death” for the 2018 Big Dance?

By Brandon Griffin

NEW YORK, NY - MARCH 10: Head coach Tony Bennett of the Virginia Cavaliers cuts down the net after defeating the North Carolina Tar Heels 71-63 during the championship game of the 2018 ACC Men's Basketball Tournament at Barclays Center on March 10, 2018 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Photo by Abbie Parr/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - MARCH 10: Head coach Tony Bennett of the Virginia Cavaliers cuts down the net after defeating the North Carolina Tar Heels 71-63 during the championship game of the 2018 ACC Men's Basketball Tournament at Barclays Center on March 10, 2018 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Photo by Abbie Parr/Getty Images) /
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With the Bracket finally revealed, which March Madness region should be labeled this year’s annual “Region of Death”?

The Bracket is finally here. After months of trying to figure out who is in and where they should go, the committee finally gave the world the final 68 teams that still have a chance to win it all. Of course, as with any decision, there comes a lot of opinions.

There are the people who feel certain teams got snubbed, those who feel certain teams are undeserving, and those who feel certain teams should’ve been seeded higher or lower. There are also those who want to quickly anoint a region the easiest or the hardest.

And it is the hardest region people talk the most about. It is referred to as the unfair region, the region from hell, or in this case: The Region of Death

So which region this season would be the Region of Death?

Well, we can start by eliminating the East, where the committee pretty much gift wrapped a Final Four Appearance for Villanova. We can also knock out the Midwest, where there is a 98 percent chance of either Kansas, Duke, or Michigan State advancing, barring a Trae Young-going-nuts type run.

That leaves the South and the West. I believe it is the South. Though the West has the best chance of the one seed losing early, there isn’t nearly the magnitude of difficulty that is presented in the South. The South has 10 teams that won their conference championships, including the top five seeds. It also has two teams that finished first during the regular season in their conferences in Tennessee and Nevada.

Additionally, it has the best team in the country in Virginia and three of the top five defenses in the country in the aforementioned Cavaliers followed by Cincinnati and Loyola-Chicago.

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Every game will be a grudge match.  Good luck to everyone, but whoever survives the South to make it to San Antonio will have earned its way into the Final Four and would have to be a favorite to cut down the nets.

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