From 320+ schools to two, we’re down to the end of the Circle of March (April)…

And here’s a series of snapshots showing the progression of how we ended up here…

One more to go!

As unlikely a Final Four as we can remember, but one we’ll love just the same...

To see the progression of the CoM, check out all the previous posts here.

And down to eight teams still playing for the ‘ship.

From 32 to 16…  one of these remaining teams will be your national champion for 2011.  Who will it be?

From over 300 teams just over two weeks ago to only 32 now.  The Circle of March is slowly becoming a vast swath of white space…

The First Four is over, so we’re down to the natural order of things, the perfectly balanced bracket of 64 teams.  We’ll update the Circle of March after each round all the way until we’re down to one team standing.

Well, UAB and VCU are in, while Virginia Tech and Colorado are out.  At least we had them on our CoM yesterday as one of the final 77.  Now it gets serious — down to the final 68 teams battling for the title.

A huge weekend of tournament action around the country knocked out another wide swath of teams from the national title picture.  As it stands now, we’ve got a total of 77  teams left in our circle.  After Sunday evening, of course, it’ll be down to 68.

It’s starting to look a little stark on the Circle of March, as we lost another roughly thirty teams yesterday…

Coming Next: another major bite will be taken out of it tonight, as a huge day of conference tournaments continues.

Knockout Tuesday and  living was easy… 

Coming Next:  It gets no easier from here on, as we whittle things down to 68 by Sunday afternoon.