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Life as a No. 4 seed is pretty good for Notre Dame. A win over St. John's didn't move the Irish at all -- although most brackets were not updated today and those that were just list seeds instead of potential locales and opponents.
Some were updated late yesterday, though, so we'll take a brief run through those.
Jerome co-founder and Orlando Sentinel Florida beat writer Dave Curtis placed Notre Dame as the No. 4 seed in the Midwest, heading to Denver to play 13th-seeded Virginia Tech. In what could be described as the 'BCS pod,' potential second-round opponents are either No. 5 Michigan State or No. 12 Arkansas. Amazing how the Irish might be the best basketball team in the pod but the worst football one. How times have changed.
In The Jerome, we escaped again as Patriot top seed American held off Holy Cross. Others weren't so lucky, as some of the 86-member Jerome field picked Navy, which lost a triple-overtime heartbreaker to Bucknell.
The Northeast and Missouri Valley Tournaments start off today. The Big South has its semifinals on ESPNU (we highly recommend watching as either High Point, Winthrop or UNC-Asheville can easily be an NCAA sleeper), including a High Point-Winthrop matchup at 6 p.m. A High Point win secures us our first Jerome points of the year. The Atlantic Sun also continues play tonight.
-By Michael Rothstein of The Journal Gazette

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