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For the purpose of this post, I'm going to breakdown each region by primary color based on the athletic page of said schools on Wikipedia. (Note: Indiana's primary color is cream.)
Midwest Region
This region is dominated by reds (Louisville, Cincinnati and Saint Mary's) and blues (Saint Louis, Memphis, Creighton and Duke) but the thing that makes this region stand out is the greens. Colorado State, Oregon and Michigan State are the only teams in the field with green as their primary colors. There's also a brown (Valparaiso), gold (Missouri), orange (Oklahoma State) and purple (Albany) in here, all but rounding out the color wheel.
Reds - 4; Blues - 5; Greens - 3; Others - 4
West Region
Here's a region dominated by the color red. Eight teams feature a shade of red as their primary colors: Ole Miss, Wisconsin, Arizona, New Mexico, Harvard, Iowa State, Ohio State and Iona. Whew! Running second in the color scheme of things is blue (Southern, Pitt, Boise State and LaSalle (one of whom will be out tonight) and Belmont). A black (Wichita State), white (Gonzaga), purple (Kansas State) and a gold (Notre Dame). A very diverse yet top-heavy region out west.
Reds - 8; Blues - 5; Greens - 0; Others - 4
South Region
Another region dominated by a single color, this time of the blue variety. Kansas, North Carolina, Villanova, Akron, South Dakota State, UCLA, Georgetown and Florida Gulf Coast are the schools who sport true blue, even though UCLA is truly the only one with "true blue" as their primary hue. Red has a moderate showing with four schools (Western Kentucky, Minnesota, San Diego State and Oklahoma). There's also a black (VCU), a maize (Michigan), an orange (Florida) and a purple (Northwestern State), but blues rule the south.
Reds - 4; Blues - 8; Greens - 0; Others - 4
East Region
This is where the colors get a little brighter, specifically in the shade of orange. Five schools comprise this section of the color spectrum: Syracuse, Bucknell, Illinois, Miami (FL) and Pacific. Besides the predominantly orange aspect of this region, it's also the most diverse in terms of non-red and blue teams. As stated, Indiana is cream. James Madison is purple while LIU-Brooklyn is black, though one will be eliminated tonight. Colorado is gold. There are five schools whose primary color is red (NC State, Temple, UNLV, Montana and Davidson) while three feature blue (Cal, Butler and Marquette).
Reds - 5; Blues - 3; Greens - 0; Others - 9
All of the above may not clarify which color has the best offs of winning the 2013 NCAA Men's Basketball National Championship, so here's one final look at all the remaining teams - all 66 of them.
Reds - 21 teams - 32% of the field
Blues - 21 teams - 32% of the field
Orange - 7 teams - 11% of the field
White/Black/Cream - 5 teams - 7.5% of the field
Purple - 4 teams - 6% of the field
Yellow/Gold - 4 teams - 6% of the field
Greens - 3 teams - 5% of the field
Brown - 1 team - 1.5% of the field
Sorry for failing to mention Middle Tennessee State and Liberty, two teams eliminated last night, who feature blue as their primary color.
The Colors of March are complete.
