2010 NCAA Tournament: South (Where Rooting Against Duke Will Come Easily To All!)

We’ll thumb through each bracket today with links, videos, and randomness. We start in the South, where Duke will be the focus because it was handed the weakest No. 2 (Villanova), No. 3 (Baylor), and No. 4 (Purdue). Christmas in March for Coach K!What were they thinking?: Yes, we read this. But the question remains – if Kansas was the No. 1 overall seed, shouldn’t it have faced the worst No. 2 seed? That would have been Villanova. Oops. Instead, Kansas got the 2nd best No. 2 seed (Ohio State, Big 10 regular season and tournament champs). And Duke, which shared the ACC regular-season title and beat mediocre teams to win the conference tourney, somehow leapfrogged Syracuse to snag the “third” No. 1 seed, and drew the slumping Wildcats (lost 5 of 7) in the other half of the bracket.Whitlock Nails It: This will definitely be Monday’s tournament talking point – perhaps one that will resonate through the next two days, as well: Duke got hooked up ...