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One of the top teams (or two) will be dancing when they get sent West. Duke is it in this scenario because of the flawed seeding process. The committee's rationale for punishment is to send the worse team furthest from home. It ignores the fact you have the worst teams out West.

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It ignores the fact you have the worst teams out West.

 

It is inherently flawed because the number of teams in the west is smaller than the numbers throughout the rest of the country. With the seeding rule that the top three teams in a conference can't be in the same region, at best you'll have one Pac-12 team in the west and, with Gonzaga's emergence, one West Coast team. The other two teams will obviously be "weaker" teams from a conference in the east, but weaker is a relative term because there are so many eastern teams in so many eastern conferences. Bottom line, Duke being fourth or fifth in the ACC might play to their advantage this season.

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One of the top teams (or two) will be dancing when they get sent West. Duke is it in this scenario because of the flawed seeding process. The committee's rationale for punishment is to send the worse team furthest from home. It ignores the fact you have the worst teams out West.

 

They should let teams pick the region they're in as they go. At least the top 3-4 seeds in each region.

 

Either that, or snake it so that the top #1 seed is paired with the worst #2, the best #3, and the worst #4 seed.

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It is inherently flawed because the number of teams in the west is smaller than the numbers throughout the rest of the country. With the seeding rule that the top three teams in a conference can't be in the same region, at best you'll have one Pac-12 team in the west and, with Gonzaga's emergence, one West Coast team. The other two teams will obviously be "weaker" teams from a conference in the east, but weaker is a relative term because there are so many eastern teams in so many eastern conferences. Bottom line, Duke being fourth or fifth in the ACC might play to their advantage this season.

It is an annual problem. It is why you see Wichita State advance to the Final Four or other higher seeded teams.

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They should seed them 1-68 then plug them in, if two teams from the same conference meet in the second round, so be it. They can still use pods to play better seeds somewhat near home. On the second week end does it really matter where they play East, South, Mid or West?

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They should let teams pick the region they're in as they go. At least the top 3-4 seeds in each region.

 

Either that, or snake it so that the top #1 seed is paired with the worst #2, the best #3, and the worst #4 seed.

 

If they did the snake format, and based on my top 16 rankings which are:

 

1.Kansas

2. Nova

3. UNC

4. Oregon

5. Gonzaga

6. Kentucky

7. UCLA

8. Louisville

9. Duke

10. Baylor

11. Arizona

12. West Virginia

13. Florida State

14. Butler

15. Florida

16. Purdue

 

We'd end up with:

 

1. Kansas

8. Louisville

9. Duke

16. Purdue

 

2. Villanova

7. UCLA

10. Baylor

15. Florida

 

3. UNC

6. Kentucky

11. Arizona

14. Butler

 

4. Oregon

5. Gonzaga

12. West Virginia

13. Florida State

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