MSU’s is the 3 seed in the East Region (Washington, D.C.), beginning against 14-seed North Dakota State on Thursday in Buffalo. It’s a region filled with familiar opponents — the aforementioned No. 1-seed Blue Devils and 2-seed Huskies, 8-seed Ohio State and 7-seed UCLA. St. John’s is the 5 seed and Kansas the 4, but those two are Duke’s problem before MSU would ever have to deal with them.