NCAA Tournament Bracket 2014: March Madness Schedule Starts With Florida Gators, Wichita State, Arizona, Virginia Number 1 Seeds

Mar 16, 2014 06:38 PM EDT

The NCAA Tournament Bracket for 2014 is getting set Sunday and the March Madness schedule starts this week on March 18 and 19 for the first round and the full seeds are getting put into place and the Florida Gators are the top seed overall in the tournament and the number ones are the Gators, Arizona Wildcats, Wichita State Shockers and Virginia Cavaliers.

The west region has their top four seeds in Arizona, Wisconsin, Creighton and San Diego State and the South bracket has Florida along with Kansas, Syracuse and UCLA and some of those matchups includes Ohio State taking on Dayton in a six and 11 matchup, while Syracuse plays against Western Michigan and New Mexico will be playing Stanford, while Kansas and Eastern Kentucky are matching up. Florida is playing against one of the play in teams in Albany and Mt. Saint Mary's and Colorado will be playing Pittsburgh, while VCU and SF Austin are playing, while UCLA and Tulsa are matching up in the tournament.

Creighton plays against UL Lafayette, while San Diego State and New Mexico State are playing each other and that bracket also has Oklahoma and North Dakota State, while Gonzaga and Oklahoma State are playing against each other and that will be one of the best matchups of the tournament with eight and nine seeds going at it. Wichita State is one of the top seeds and they are in the Midwest region and they will play against Cal Poly or Texas Southern from the play in game, while Kentucky and Kansas State are playing against one another. Louisville takes on Manhattan, while St. Louis plays against NC State and Xavier from one of the other play-in games and why it's that seed is a complete mystery.

In that region Michigan is the number to seed and they play against Wofford, while Duke is a number three and Louisville is a number four seed. Duke plays against Mercer, while UMass and either Iowa or Xavier will play, and in that region Texas plays Arizona State as well. The Gators finished an undefeated season in the SEC and they are now tournament champs and in the west region, Wisconsin plays against American, Oregon plays against BYU, while Creighton plays against Louisiana and Baylor faces off against Nebraska.

Duke played well against Virginia and they fell in the conference finals to give the Cavaliers their first title in over 30 years and the Blue Devils got 23 points and eight rebounds from freshman phenom Jabari Parker. The East has Virginia as a number one seed and they play against Coastal Carolina, while Michigan State faces Delaware, Cincy plays Harvard and in that region Memphis plays against George Washington. The Tar Heels are sixth in the east and they play against Providence, while Iowa State and NC Central will also play in that region.

Check here for the full tournament bracket from ESPN and all the seeds and matchups for the tournament.

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