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Ranking the region

by Keith Graham | 1, Add your Comment | Mar 18, 2009

President Obama has made his picks for the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, and three of his Final Four choices are from the South.

The University of North Carolina, Louisville and Memphis are joined by Pittsburgh. The president picks North Carolina to win the championship in a final with Louisville.

In seeding the 65-team tournament, the NCAA selection committee ranked Southern teams this way:

1) Louisville, the tournament’s No. 1 overall seed
2) UNC, which merited another No. 2 see
3) Duke and Memphis
5) Wake Forest
6) Florida State
7) Clemson
8) LSU
9) Tennessee
10) Virginia Commonwealth
11) Western Kentucky
12) Mississippi State
13) Chattanooga, Radford and East Tennessee State
16) Morehead State, which won a playin game with Alabama State

Southern teams in the lower tier 32-team National Invitational Tournament were ranked in this order:

1) Florida and Auburn
3) Virginia Tech
4) South Carolina, which has already lost to the lower-seeded Davidson
5) Kentucky and Miami
7) Davidson
8) Alabama-Birmingham and George Mason
10) Tennessee-Martin and Jacksonville

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About the author Keith Graham: Keith Graham lives in Atlanta most of the time and on St. Simons Island on Georgia’s coast the rest. Like so many Southerners, Keith was named for a blind piano player, who is now little remembered, and he spent his earliest years living with his parents in the back rooms of a small-town Georgia radio station. Later, he moved to several other states, including North Carolina twice, before returning to Georgia. He has worked for a series of newspapers, including The Atlanta Journal and Constitution from 1979 to 2007.

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