Kansas, Kentucky, Duke, Syracuse earn No. 1 seeds for NCAA tourney

An injury hurts as much as a loss in the days before the brackets are drawn up for March Madness. Syracuse endured both and will have to rack up some major airplane time to make a run to the Final Four.

Kansas, Kentucky and Duke won their conference tournaments and the top seeding that went with them when the selection committee rolled out its 65-team NCAA tournament bracket Sunday.

The Orange, meanwhile, also got a No. 1 seed, but was ranked fourth of the four top teams and sent West -- the result of an early loss in the Big East tournament in which center Arinze Onuaku injured his right quadriceps.