1.   All eight teams at a first- and second-round site were in the same regional.

2.   For the third time in the past four years, Georgia and UConn have been paired in the same regional.

3.   Georgetown played in the same regional, and John Thompson, the Hoya coach, took his team to visit the church as soon as they arrived in Birmingham.

4.   The committee can put teams from the same conference in the same regional but tends not to whenever possible.

5.   When Bibby noticed USC and Boston College were in the same regional last Sunday, Skinner was the first coach he called.