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NCAA Bracket 2012: Overall Seeding Revealed By Selection Committee

Bill Hanstock
Bill Hanstock is a writer, author and Emmy Award-winning producer. He began writing for SB Nation in 2011.

Following the announcement on Selection Sunday of the pairings and brackets for the 2012 NCAA Tournament, the selection committee revealed the overall seeding of the teams. You can see the rankings in the photos below.

The top four selections represent the No. 1 seeds in the four regional brackets. No. 1 overall is the Kentucky Wildcats, followed by the Syracuse Orange, the North Carolina Tar Heels and the Michigan St. Spartans.

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The final teams to be included as at-large selections were California, South Florida, Iona and BYU. The first four out are Oral Roberts, Miami, Nevada and Drexel, all four teams just missing the cut.

What do you think of these rankings? Who do you think will win it all? Let us know in the comments below.

For more on the 2012 NCAA Tournament bracket, stay with SB Nation’s Selection Sunday StoryStream, and stick around SB Nation’s NCAA Tournament hub for a complete printable NCAA Tournament bracket and tons of analysis on who was snubbed, who got the best bracket, and who will make it all the way to New Orleans and the Final Four.

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