A look at the NCAA men’s tournament, the 68-team free-for-all that begins Tuesday and ends three weeks from now at the Final Four in Atlanta: 1. WHO’S NUMBER 1? Well, we won’t know who the NCAA champion is until the Final Four is over on April 8. But the four No. 1 seeds heading into the tournament: Louisville, Kansas, Indiana and Gonzaga. The Cardinals are the overall top seed. 2. INTRODUCING THE DEFENDING CHAMPIONS … If you want to find last year’s national champions, don’t look in this bracket. After losing six players from its title team last year, Kentucky finished 21-11 and wasn’t among the 68 teams in the tournament. 3. PICKING A WINNER … Louisville is where the smart money is going – the early 9-2 favorite in Vegas to win it all. But in order to guarantee picking the winner of all 67 games, you’d have to fill out more than 9 quintillion brackets. That’s a 9, followed by 18 zeros. If you used one sheet of paper for each bracket, all that paper, according to …
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