The NCAA tournament is full of the usual suspects like Michigan State and Duke, but every year there are new mascots, school colors and fight songs to learn, too.
If you are filling out a bracket and need to find inspiration in the team’s traditions or want to know who might be rooting along with you, we’ve researched each school in the tournament to give you all the information at hand, organized by region and seeds, to make it easy to pick them in Tournament Challenge, where you can create up to 25 brackets for free.
Information was scoured from public sources, and some (including student enrollment numbers) might be slightly out of date. We also apologize in advance if we left off your favorite actor/athlete/politician/relative from the list of notable alumni. It was (probably) unintentional, and there’s nothing to read into it. But we had fun with this, and we hope you do too.
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ESPN’s Gabriella Madden contributed to this story.
East Region
(1) Duke Blue Devils
Durham, North Carolina
Conference: ACC | Enrollment: 10,000+
Mascot: Blue…
