Mid-Majors heating up the tournament

I know the NCAA tournament has already begun, but I thought I should list all the mid-major teams playing this year. It's quite a group, and as we all saw yesterday (See Georgetown, Ohio), these teams should not be taken for granted. This weekend, I will break down the big winners and losers of the first round regarding the mid-major crop. Without further ado, here is the vast list of teams spanning across the country:

Midwest Region:
No. 8 UNLV (first round opponent:No. 9 Northern Iowa)
No. 9 Northern Iowa (No. 8 UNLV)
No. 11 San Diego St. (No. 6 Tennessee)
No. 12 New Mexico St. (No. 5 Michigan St.)
No. 13 Houston (No. 4 Maryland)
No. 14 Ohio (No. 3 Georgetown)
No. 15 UC Santa Barbara (No. 2 Ohio State)
No. 16 Lehigh (No. 1 Kansas)

West Region:
No. 5 Butler (No. 12 UTEP)
No. 6 Xavier (No. 11 Minnesota)
No. 7 BYU (No. 10 Florida)
No. 8 Gonzaga (No. 9 Florida State)
No. 12 UTEP (No. 5 Butler)
No. 13 Murray State (No. 4 Vanderbilt)
No. 14 Oakland (No. 3 Pittsburgh)
No. 15 North Texas (No. 2 Kansas State)
No. 16 Vermont (No. 1 Syracuse)

East Region:
No. 3 New Mexico (No. 14 Montana)
No. 5 Temple (No. 12 Cornell)
No. 12 Cornell (No. 5 Temple)
No. 13 Wofford (No. 4 Wisconsin)
No. 14 Montana (No. 3 New Mexico)
No. 15 Morgan State (No. 2 West Virginia)
No. 16 East Tenn. State (No. 1 Kentucky)

South Region:
No. 7 Richmond (No. 10 St. Mary's)
No. 10 St. Mary's (No. 7 Richmond)
No. 11 Old Dominion (No. 6 Notre Dame)
No. 12 Utah St. (No. 5 Texas A&M)
No. 13 Siena (No. 4 Purdue)
No. 14 Sam Houston St. (No. 3 Baylor)
No. 15 Robert Morris (No. 2 Villanova)
No. 16 Ark.-P. Bluff. (No. 1 Duke)

The region's are fairly balanced with the mid-major teams. As we saw yesterday, I see a few teams stepping up with an upset victory like Cornell and Siena.

I'll be back this weekend breaking down some of craziness we saw in Thursday's and Friday's games, including Villanova's head-scratcher against No. 15 seed Robert Morris, which dragged on through an overtime.