31.   If Vanderbilt had beaten Connecticut and Auburn had beaten Stanford in the regional finals, every Final Four team would have been from the Southeastern Conference.

32.   If you can, identify the second-best team in the region and put it in the regional final and again work backward.

33.   In fact, Texas apparently fell victim to a safeguard seeding process in which teams from the same conference cannot meet until the regional finals.

34.   In theory, the Longhorns and Buffaloes could meet in the regional final in Syracuse, N.Y.

35.   In their last six regional finals, they have won three and lost three.

36.   Instead, the Wildcats were upset by North Carolina in the regional finals.

37.   In the regional final, the Huskies are again likely get a team that looks like them, probably Ohio State in a rematch of the national semifinals.

38.   It felt like a regional final.

39.   It looks like a chalk regional final.

40.   Ironically, Connecticut had advanced to the regional final with a buzzer-beating jumper by Tate George to beat Clemson.