Texas Tech got the seed many people expected them to get, but maybe not in the region everyone thought. Tech will play their first-round matchup on Friday against Montana State in San Diego, but before then we take a look at the rest of the west region, as well as analyze each Big 12 school's path to New Orleans.

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