No more East, South, Midwest and West. The NCAA regionals now are identified by the names of the cities.

Don’t be confused, though. Just about everything else stays the same. There are still 65 teams in the field, of course, and there still will be 64 games to determine a champion.

Coaches and experts have said all season there were 10 to 20 teams with a legitimate chance to win it all. That prediction seems about right, making a tough chore even tougher.

At least the East Rutherford regional has the word East in it, and it also has Saint Joseph’s as the No. 1 seed.

The Hawks, who sweated out their top seeding right until the brackets were announced, will make it to the second weekend after beating Texas Tech and coach Bob Knight in the second round. That’s where the great ride of a near-perfect season will end with a loss to fourth-seeded Wake Forest, which will beat No. 5 Florida.

The other half of the bracket will involve a “road” win when No. 3 Pittsburgh beats No. 6 Wisconsin in Milwaukee, which is about an hour from the Badgers’ Madison campus. Oklahoma State gets to face Pitt after eliminating Memphis in the second round.

The final will feature Pittsburgh against Wake Forest, and the Panthers will get to the Final Four for the first time since 1941.

Kentucky was the overall No. 1 seed, and the Wildcats should live up to the billing in the St. Louis regional.

They also will have to beat a team that should have a strong local following: Kansas University will beat Illinois-Chicago and Providence in Kansas City before heading to St. Louis.

Gonzaga will have its hands full with Michigan State in the second round before losing to Georgia Tech in the regional semifinals.

Kentucky won’t be another of the Yellow Jackets’ high-profile victims this season, and the Wildcats will reach their first Final Four since 1998.

The Atlanta regional is probably the strongest, and it only makes sense that a tournament-tested team like Duke finds its way through.

Seton Hall will beat Arizona in the best of the 8-9 matchups, but the Pirates then get Duke in the second round. The Blue Devils will reach the regional final by beating Cincinnati, which will have beaten Illinois in the most physical of the 4-5 games.

Mississippi State will be the first of the No. 2 seeds to go down when Xavier, the team that ruined Saint Joseph’s unbeaten run, knocks off the Bulldogs in the second round.

North Carolina coach Roy Williams led Kansas to the last two Final Fours. He’ll get his sixth-seeded Tar Heels within one game of making it three in a row after knocking off Texas in the round of 16.

What could be better than a third Duke-Carolina game of the season, especially one for a Final Four berth? The Blue Devils will make it three-for-three over the Tar Heels and get back to the Final Four for the first time since 2001.

Stanford lost only one game this season but its second will come before the Final Four. The Cardinal will beat Alabama in the second round, then become the latest victim of Maryland’s season-closing run in the round of 16. The Terrapins will have gotten there with a second-round win over Syracuse in a matchup of the last two national champions.

Connecticut, coming off a Big East tournament win with center Emeka Okafor healthy for just one game, moves on with a win over DePaul and former Jim Calhoun assistant Dave Leitao, and then another over North Carolina State.

The Huskies beat Stanford in the second round last year and they will do it again in the Phoenix regional final.

That leaves two No. 1s — Kentucky and Duke — a No. 2, Connecticut, and a No. 3, Pittsburgh, getting together in San Antonio.

Kentucky beats Pittsburgh in a semifinal as physical as any ever played. Connecticut beats Duke as it did in the 1999 national championship game.

Kentucky and Connecticut play for it all, and just like he did as a first-year coach with the Wildcats in 1998, Tubby Smith gets to stroll the River Walk with the championship trophy.