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These First-Round Games? They’re a Sure ThingIt’s Wednesday morning. Your bracket is due in 24 hours. You’re searching for answers. Luckily, we have them. Here are 10 teams SI trusts to win in the first round—one for each seed. No. 1 Gonzaga over No. 16 Georgia State: All No. 1…

Here (in no particular order) are 64 Reasons to Watch March Madness:

LOS ANGELES — While UCLA and USC will fall short of New Orleans, there will be a distinct Western flavor in the Big Easy with Gonzaga and Arizona. And how about a Pac-12 champion as national champion for the first time in 25 years?

Forget seeding—this is a list of the teams playing best when it matters most.

Odds are, someone seeded No. 4 or lower will make it to New Orleans.

These eight teams have the potential to make a Final Four run.

You once could fill out your NCAA Tournament pool without knowing a team’s NET Ranking or Quad 1 record.

For the Pac-12 — which bills itself as the “Conference of Champions” — a 25-year title drought is pretty sad. Well, it’s time to get un-sad.

Imagine what history would say about Gonzaga if it had finished undefeated at 32-0 last season instead of falling to Baylor in the national championship game.

Fueled by last year’s championship loss, Gonzaga will be anxious to return to the Final Four. But can Duke or Texas Tech spoil things?

The Illini and Badgers were conference co-champs in the regular season, and a couple of awards don’t do anything to tip the scales. That’s what the Big Ten tournament is for.