SEATTLE (AP) -- Gonzaga is a No. 8 seed and will travel to Buffalo, N.Y., to face ninth-seeded Florida State on Friday in the first round of its 12th consecutive NCAA tournament.
The full NCAA tournament bracket was announced Sunday afternoon.
And Pac-10 tournament champion Washington is an 11th seed in its second consecutive tournament. The surging Huskies will meet sixth-seeded Marquette in San Jose, Calif., on Friday.
Cal is the 8 seed in the South and plays 9 seed Lousville in Houston.
The Bulldogs lost a chance to play their first NCAA games at home in Spokane when they lost in the West Coast Conference finals to Saint Mary's.
The Huskies rallied after they spent January and February wondering how they could possibly make the field of 65.
Kansas, Kentucky, Duke and Syracuse earned top billing and the No. 1 seeds for the NCAA tournament Sunday, with the Jayhawks named the top seed overall for the 2010 version of March Madness. With all the conference tournaments complete, the NCAA selection committee rolled out its 65-team bracket, setting it up for millions of fans to start making their picks for what is annually America's largest, three-week office pool.
Play starts Tuesday with an opening-round game, and the tournament goes into full swing Thursday.
Syracuse was ranked fourth of the top seeds and sent to the West Region. That was a surprise for the Big East regular-season champions, who were considered a lock for a top spot, while Duke was expected to vie with West Virginia for the final No. 1 seed. Duke was ranked third and will play in the South region.
According to the committee, Kansas (32-2) is the favorite to win its second national title in three years.
Leading the Jayhawks in the Midwest Region are Sherron Collins and Cole Aldrich, two key pieces in the team's 2008 title run. The Jayhawks earned the overall No. 1 seed based on an 18-1 record against Big 12 foes, which includes three wins over Kansas State, a team in the mix for a top seed until falling to KU in the conference final Saturday.
Kansas opens Thursday against No. 16 Lehigh in the Midwest regional. No. 1 seeds are undefeated in the first round since 1985, when the field first was expanded to 64 teams.
Other first-round games in the Midwest are: No. 8 UNLV vs. No. 9 Northern Iowa; No. 5 Michigan State vs. No. 12 New Mexico State; No. 4 Maryland vs. No. 13 Houston; No. 2 Ohio State against No. 15 UC-Santa Barbara; No. 7 Oklahoma State vs. No. 10 Georgia Tech; No. 3 Georgetown vs. No. 14 Ohio and No. 6 Tennessee vs. No. 11 San Diego State.
