Attention all cardiologists and pacemaker patrons: PLEASE STAND BY. The biggest event in the world of College Basketball is set to tip-off March 20th as 64 participants take to the floor in the most celebrated 'Dance' of the year - namely the NCAA Tournament! To help choose your partner, we share ROUND by ROUND coverage of how teams have fared most recently in the Tourney. This week we'll cover Rounds One and Two. Next week we'll look at action in the Sweet 16 and Elite 8 rounds, before concluding with Final Four weekend.

Included in this chart are each team's overall Straight-Up (SU) and Against The Spread (ATS) records as they enter onto the road to the Louisiana Superdome. Get your remote control and nitroglycerin ready as it's time for the 2008 NCAA BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT to begin as we begin our journey to San Antonio. Enjoy...

NCAA 1st Round Notes:

#1 Seeds off BB SU wins and favs of < 25 points are 11-1 ATS (2-0 LY)
#2 Seeds are 4-18-3 ATS vs opponents off a SU win (0-1-1 LY).
#3 Seeds off a SU favorite loss are 25-1 SU & 18-7-1 ATS (2-0 LY)
#4 Seeds are 18-6 ATS as favorites of < 9 points (8-1 L4Y)
#9 Seeds are 2-6 ATS as favorites of 3 > points
Dogs of 3 > points off a DD SU loss are 11-2 ATS L4Y

Conference Tournament Champs in this round:

ACC: 0-5 ATS…
Atlantic 10: 5-3 ATS…
Big 10: 2-4 ATS…
Big 12: 2-5 ATS…
Big East: 2-12 ATS…
Big West: 0-3 ATS…
Colonial: 10-4 ATS…
Conf USA: 1-3 ATS…
Horizon: 4-2 ATS…
MAC: 5-2 ATS…
Missouri Valley: 1-4 ATS…
Mountain West: 2-6 ATS…
Pac 10: 2-4 ATS…
Sunbelt: 3-4 ATS…
Southeastern: 4-2 ATS…
WAC: 2-6 ATS… West Coast: 1-5 ATS

BEST team SU records in this round:
Kentucky 16-0, Connecticut 13-0, Purdue 9-0, Gonzaga 4-0, North Carolina 14-1, Duke 10-1, Georgetown 8-1, Wisconsin 5-1, Kansas 15-2.

WORST team SU records in this round:
BYU 0-5, Arkansas 0-4

BEST team ATS records in this round:
Butler 4-0, Indiana 4-0, Kent State 3-0-1, Georgetown 7-1, Purdue 5-1, UCLA 5-1, Mississippi State 4-1

WORST team ATS records in this round:
Marquette 0-5, Oregon 0-5, Arkansas 0-4, Gonzaga 0-3, Connecticut 1-8, Duke 1-4, Oklahoma 1-4

BEST Conference ATS records in this round:
Big 10: 6-0-1, Southeastern: 4-1, Horizon: 6-2, Missouri Valley: 12-5, Coloniall: 6-3, Big West: 6-3

WORST Conference ATS records in this round:
West Coast: 0-4, WAC: 0-3, Ivy League: 1-6, Big East: 4-8

NCAA 2nd Round Notes:

#1 Seeds are 1-11 ATS off 3+ SU & ATS wins (0-2 LY)
#4 Seeds are 4-15 ATS S/'02 (1-3 LY)
#5 Seed dogs are 10-3 AST S/'99 (2-1 LY)
#7 Seed dogs of 3 > points are 10-22 ATS (1-13 ATS vs opp off BB SU wins)
#8 Seeds are 20-11 ATS S/'95 (9-1 ATS vs opp off BB SUATS wins)
#9 Seed dogs off a SU dog win are 4-13 ATS
#10 Seeds are 13-3 ATS
#13 or worse Seeds are 4-22 SU & 7-18-1 ATS

BEST team SU records in this round:
Duke 9-0, UCLA 8-0, Georgetown 5-0, Kansas 5-0, Michigan State 6-1, Arizona 4-1, Pittsburgh 4-1

WORST team SU records in this round:
Mississippi State 0-3, Xavier 1-6

BEST team ATS records in this round:
Kansas 7-0, Vanderbilt 3-0, Purdue 5-1, Louisville 5-1-1, Arizona 4-1, Memphis 4-1, Texas 4-1

WORST team ATS records in this round:
Stanford 0-6, Villanova 1-4, Wisconsin 1-4

BEST Conference ATS records in this round:
PAC 10: 10-0 vs opp of BB SUATS wins…
Southeastern: 12-2 as dogs 2 > pts…
Big East: 12-3 as dogs…
Big 12: 19-6…
Missouri Valley: 9-5 (5-0 dogs < 7 pts).

WORST Conference ATS records in this round:
Big West: 0-4…
Big East: 1-7 as favs…
ACC: 2-12 as favs < 10 pts…
WAC: 1-5 as DD dogs…
Southeastern: 5-15 as favs…
Conf USA: 5-14 off SUATS win