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NCAA basketball Championship Week gets ratcheted up a notch on Tuesday with first round play beginning in the Big East Tournament inside Madison Square Garden. The rest of the big six conferences will join the party on either Wednesday or Thursday, with championship games set for Saturday and Sunday.
With the madness before the madness on the verge of being kicked into full gear, we asked SB Nation's elite college hoops bloggers for some expert predictions on how things are going to play out in their respective conference tournaments. As might be expected, there wasn't a whole lot of parity, with the exceptions being the Big East bloggers' fondness for Syracuse and Marquette and the folks in the Big Ten expecting an Ohio State/Indiana final.
SB Nation Conference Tournament Blogger Predictions
| Site | Conference | Championship Game | Most Valuable Player |
| Rumble in the Garden (St. John's) | Big East |
Syracuse over Marquette |
Scoop Jardine (Syracuse) |
| On the Banks (Rutgers) | Big East | Marquette over Georgetown | Darius Johnson-Odom (Marquette |
| Casual Hoya (Georgetown) | Big East | Georgetown over Marquette |
Jason Clark (Georgetown) |
| Cardiac Hill (Pittsburgh) | Big East |
Syracuse over Marquette |
Jae Crowder (Marquette) |
| The Nova Blog (Villanova) | Big East | Syracuse over Georgetown | Scoop Jardine (Syracuse) |
| The Smoking Musket (West Virginia) | Big East | Marquette over Syracuse | Jae Crowder (Marquette) |
| Barking Carnival (Texas) | Big 12 |
Kansas over Missouri | Tyshawn Taylor (Kansas) |
| Burnt Orange Nation (Texas) | Big 12 |
Missouri over Kansas | Flip Pressey (Missouri) |
| Hail to the Orange (Illinois) | Big Ten | Michigan State over Michigan | Draymond Green (Michigan State) |
| Black Heart Gold Pants (Iowa) | Big Ten | Ohio State over Indiana | William Buford (Ohio State) |
| The Only Colors (Michigan State) | Big Ten |
Indiana over Ohio State |
Cody Zeller (Indiana) |
| The Daily Gopher (Minnesota) | Big Ten | Ohio State over Indiana | Jared Sullinger (Ohio State) |
| Streaking the Lawn (Virginia) | ACC | North Carolina over Duke | Tyler Zeller (North Carolina) |
| Blogger So Dear (Wake Forest) | ACC | North Carolina over Duke |
Kendall Marshall (North Carolina) |
| Rocky Top Talk (Tennessee) | SEC | Kentucky over Tennessee | Michael Kidd-Gilchrist (Kentucky) |
| Red Cup Rebellion (Ole Miss) | SEC | Kentucky over Vanderbilt | Anthony Davis (Kentucky) |
| Coug Center (Washington State) | Pac-12 | Oregon over UCLA | Devoe Joseph (Oregon) |
| Building the Dam (Oregon State) | Pac-12 |
Washington over California | Terrence Ross (Washington) |
| UB Bull Run (Buffalo) | MAC | Ohio over Akron | D.J. Cooper (Ohio) |
| Hustle Belt (MAC) | MAC | Ohio over Akron | Walter Offutt (Ohio) |