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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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