{"id":193112,"date":"2026-03-16T05:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T05:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/193112\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T05:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T05:20:11","slug":"duke-arizona-michigan-and-florida-get-top-seeding-for-march-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/193112\/","title":{"rendered":"Duke, Arizona, Michigan and Florida get top seeding for March Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Duke received the top overall seed for March Madness on Sunday, followed by Arizona, Michigan and Florida, each of whom would love a repeat of last season when all four No. 1s made it all the way to the Final Four.<\/p>\n<p>The top line was the most predictable thing to come out of Selection Sunday, with Michigan&#8217;s placement at overall No. 3, not 2, possibly a result of the Wolverines&#8217; loss to Purdue moments before the brackets were revealed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/nation\/who-invented-the-march-madness-bracket-new-york-bar-and-kentucky-postal-worker-stake-claims\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">READ MORE: Who invented the March Madness bracket? New York bar and Kentucky postal worker stake claims<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the day&#8217;s biggest nail-biter, Miami (Ohio) made the field as a No. 11 seed, but just barely. The RedHawks, with a 31-1 record but the 339th-ranked strength of schedule, were one of the last teams in the field and they face a First Four game Wednesday against SMU in Dayton, Ohio, not terribly far from home.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament starts Tuesday with other play-in games, including one pitting bubble teams and No. 11 seeds Texas and North Carolina State. The national champion will be crowned at the Final Four in Indianapolis on April 6.<\/p>\n<p>\n                    A free press is a cornerstone of a healthy democracy.\n                <\/p>\n<p class=\"invite_body\">\n                    Support trusted journalism and civil dialogue.\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/give.newshour.org\/page\/88646\/donate\/1?ea.tracking.id=pbs_news_sept_2025_article&amp;supporter.appealCode=N2509AW1000100\" class=\"donation-link ga-click-funding ga-click-ender-funding\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                    Donate now<\/p>\n<p>                <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Duke received the top overall seed for March Madness on Sunday, followed by Arizona, Michigan and Florida, each&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-193112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}