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You won't find this road to Tampa, Florida, in any Rand McNally atlas. No two teams travel it quite the same way. For No. 1 seeds Connecticut, Maryland, Notre Dame and South Carolina, their roads in the first two rounds were mostly free of traffic, the Terrapins and Fighting Irish forced to tap the brake lights a couple of times in the second round but still on schedule. For some, such as No. 3 seed Arizona State, the road was a white-knuckle uphill climb through a snowstorm with the check engine light on, while for others, such as third-seeded Iowa, it was a drag race down an empty country highway. For 11-seed Gonzaga, it was that back route that no one else seems to know. For No. 7 seed Dayton, a new bypass around congestion. For No. 2 seed Kentucky and No. 3 seed Oregon State, it was a dead end. But as those roads converge one more time at the Sweet 16 with seven of the top eight seeds still motoring along toward the Final Four in Florida, where does this year's bracket...