Bring On The Cats, a Kansas State Wildcats community

In which hated Baylor, really hated Kansas and truly hated (for now) Syracuse all advance to the Elite Eight. Dammit.

In which No. 1 seeds Kentucky and Syracuse cruelly eject Iowa State and Kansas State, Kansas barely survives a scare from the Burdue Boilermakers, and Baylor trounces the "Big 12 rejects."

In which Alabama, Long Beach State, Missouri, Southern Miss, Texas and West Virginia fail to win an NCAA Tournament game, while Baylor, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State and Syracuse live to fight another day.

In which Long Beach State finally breaks through and Missouri breaks Baylor on its way out the door.

In which Championship Week produces some unexpected tournament winners, but K-State's overall profile remains relatively unchanged.

In which Long Beach State falls thisshort of a perfect conference record, while Alabama retreats back to its mediocre ways even as West Virginia stops the bleeding.

In which Alabama, Long Beach State and West Virginia provide the only RPI/SOS bright spots, while Charleston Southern, Loyola, North Florida and Southern Illinois all check out of the 2011-12 men's basketball season.

In which Alabama returns to the land of the living even as West Virginia ventures closer to the night of the living dead.

In which Alabama takes a huge step toward the right side of the bubble and UTEP completes a two-game sweep of the top two teams in its conference. Oh, and K-State is kinds of green.

In which K-State beats Baylor, several opponents notch BracketBusters wins, UTEP stuns Memphis and kinds of good things happen to the Cats' tournament profile.