Welcome to Part 2 of my series of interviews with each of the 16 seeds of the NCAA Tournament. (If you missed the interviews with Seeds 16 through 9, you can see them here.)
I explained this in Part 1, but again, here is my somewhat dubious proposal: in the tournament, seeds govern identity. For example, this year, there is no West Virginia. There is only the 5-seed. UNLV is not playing. The 8th seed is playing, and just so happens to be wearing UNLV's jersey this year.
With that in mind, here are my interviews with tournament mainstays: 8-Seed, 7-Seed, 6-Seed, 5-Seed, 4-Seed, 3-Seed, 2-Seed, and 1-Seed.
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