Hello, you beautiful bracket

It’s the day office printers everywhere have been waiting for: The Monday after Selection Sunday.

Let's dive in.

1. What to know about the 2024 men’s bracket

Here you go. One of March’s loveliest sights. All 68 teams, all bracketed, all ready for the best tournament in sports.

You can print your own bracket (if you’re into that kind of thing) by clicking here. Updated tip times and announcing pairings can be found here.

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Some bracket nuggets:

• UConn is the No. 1 overall seed. The 1-68 seed list is here.

• Twelve of the past 16 champs have been No. 1 seeds, but the top overall seed hasn’t won it all since 2013.

• There hasn’t been a repeat champ since 2007 and the defending champs hasn’t advanced to the Sweet 16 in the last six tourneys. (UConn will probably just feed that info straight into their motivation machine.)

• It’s the third straight year the defending champ has been a 1 seed.

• North Carolina snagged a No. 1 seed for the 18th time in school history, most among D-I teams.

• The 1 seeds have an average adjusted efficiency margin of +29.43, the sixth best ever.

• A 2 seed has reached the title game just once in 10 years (when Nova won in 2016).

• No 5 seed has ever won it all.

• Two teams — Stetson and Grambling — are making their first-ever NCAA Tournament appearances.

• The Big 12 and SEC led all leagues with 8 bids. The Big Ten and Mountain West — #6bidMWC! — both got 6, followed by the ACC (5), Pac-12 (4, somehow), Big East (3, more on that in a bit), AAC (2), A-10 (2) and WCC (2).

• The East Region has 11 conference tourney champs in it. No other region has more than 7.

• Here’s how every lower seed has fared vs. higher seeds since 1985.

• Indiana State (28) and St. John’s (32) were the teams with the best NET rating to be left out of the field.

On that note…

2. Bubble reaction: Big East is mad

When the bracket reveal was happening, one thing was clear: The NCAA Tournament seeding committee wasn’t following expected protocols with the field. Michigan State and FAU as 8 seeds? Two Mountain West teams playing in Dayton? And Duquesne as an 11?

Those weren’t good signs for anyone hoping for an at-large berth.

There’s always some second-guessing when it comes to the seeds, and with the bubble. But man, I hope the tournament is ready for Big East fans to raise hell.

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