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.

We won’t bother to list every team eliminated over the weekend, but needless to say, it was a significant amount.  And as you can see in the Circle of March below, some serious holes have been eaten out of this thing.  (revised 4:00 PM)