We already know the 64 teams, so let's skip ahead to the bracketing. Photo by Mike Atherton, d3photography.com

By Pat Coleman 
D3sports.com

The NPI, or NCAA Power Index, does away with four hours of work for people like us on Selection Sunday. The games are completed, the numbers are run, you hit refresh a bunch of times, and voila! You have 64 teams. We are guaranteed to get all of those right.

So what's left is mocking up a bracket with those 64 in it, one which is faithful to the NPI and the relative seeding of each team, and within the NCAA's not-entirely-clear rules for how many flights you can have in a bracket.

Here are our projections.

• NCAA Selection Show broadcast at 12 p.m. ET
• Who's in: 64 teams
• NCAA Tournament FAQs

Each pod is set up the same, with teams "seeded" 1-4, and the host team playing the 4 in the first round. Teams which fly in the first weekend are noted with an asterisk.*

Top left quadrant

No. 1 overall seed Wesleyan hosts No. 63 seed Delaware Valley; No. 32 seed Keene State plays No 35 Catholic
No. 14 seed WPI hosts No. 49 Husson; No. 18 Ramapo plays No. 45 Ithaca
No. 8 overall seed Tufts hosts No. 51 Utica; No. 24 Stockton plays No. 40 Western New England
No. 12 Christopher Newport hosts No. 54 Pfeiffer; No. 21 Franklin & Marshall plays No. 39 Pitt-Bradford

Bottom left quadrant

No. 4 overall seed Trinity (Conn.) hosts No. 59 Cortland; No. 27 St. Joseph (Maine) plays No. 36 Chatham
No. 13 Montclair hosts No. 52 Yeshiva; No. 16 Hamilton play No. 44 Clark
No. 7 Randolph-Macon plays No. 56 Westfield State; No. 30 TCNJ hosts No. 37 Gettysburg 
No. 10 Drew plays No. 60 John Jay; No. 22 Roanoke hosts No. 48 Mary Washington
Randolph-Macon men will be unable to host the opening weekend because their women are projected to host.
Drew did not file to host games in the tournament.

Top right quadrant

No. 2 NYU plays No. 61 Bryn Athyn; No. 31 Calvin plays at No. 33 John Carroll
No. 15 St. Thomas (Texas) hosts No. 62 Lewis & Clark; No .29 Cal Lutheran plays No. 46 Hardin-Simmons
No. 5 Emory hosts No. 53 Berry; No. 25 Guilford plays No. 47 Huntingdon
No. 11 Hampden-Sydney hosts No. 57 Neumann; No. 20 Denison plays No. 38 York (Pa.)
NYU men will be unable to host the opening weekend because their women are projected to host

Bottom right quadrant

No. 3 UW-Platteville hosts No. 64 Bethany Lutheran; No. 24 Carthage plays No. 42 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
No. 17 Washington U. hosts No. 58 Greenville; No. 26 Redlands plays No. 43 Franklin
No. 6 UW-La Crosse hosts No. 55 Grinnell; No. 19 St. John's plays No. 41 St. Norbert
No. 9 Illinois Wesleyan plays No. 50 Central; No. 28 Wisconsin Lutheran hosts No. 35 Chicago
Illinois Wesleyan men will be unable to host the opening weekend because their women are projected to host
If UW-La Crosse men can't host because of a gymnasium conflict, this pod could be hosted at St. John's

Three SCIAC teams make the field, which means we have to someone out of SoCal. We tried to get a pod hosted at Redlands but could not really make it make sense.  

Keep an eye on D3hoops.com for coverage of the bracket reveal on Monday, and post your questions in the comments section below.