As the regional finals approached Saturday, all four one-seeds were feeling the effects of college basketball’s deathmatch postseason format, as two teams advanced to Detroit and two came up short. UConn managed to finally derail that gritty Missouri squad on Saturday and North Carolina took care of business against Oklahoma last night.

In the best game of the weekend, Villanova snuck past Pittsburgh with one of those last-second “I’m gonna drive the length of the floor and lay it in because everyone’s afraid to foul me” shots and the Fighting Novs punched their ticket to Detroit, which in a national championship context is much more glamourous than it sounds. Michigan State knocked off 1st-seeded Louisville yesterday in a game that everyone is calling ugly I guess because both teams decided to play defense. The Cardinals, who scored 103 points in their regional semifinal game against Arizona, barely mustered half that total against the Spartans, losing 52-64. The Spartans earn an unlikely berth for the Big Ten conference and will play for the national championship a mere 90 minutes from their campus in East Lansing.

Take a look at my bracket (and possibly yours) after the jump.