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Now comes the fun part.

With the 2017 NCAA tournament field unveiled and all of the first-round matchups set, every team is already deep into their preparation for those opening games. The ultimate goal is to win it all, but without being able to get past that first opponent, nothing beyond that can happen.

And it's in that first round when we tend to get the most madness, which is a term used to describe many things associated with the tourney—including upsets. It's going to be hard to top what happened last year, though, when 10 double-digit seeds won in the first round, including No. 15 Middle Tennessee taking out national title contender Michigan State.

The chaos cooled off a bit in the second round, but we still got teams seeded 10th and 11th into the Sweet 16, with one of them (Syracuse) making it all the way to the Final Four.

So, who's in the best position to do similar damage to tourney brackets? We've made our picks, selecting a favorite and honorable mention from each region among teams seeded 11th or lower. There's also a Sweet 16 sleeper pick (different from the first-round choices) seeded eighth or worse that has a shot to get through the first weekend.

At first, you might think we're crazy, but we do our best to justify these selections. Bleacher Report's Kerry Miller nailed a few of his upset picks a year ago, and we're hoping to do as least as well this time around.