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Both Geno and Jeff were speaking pretty bluntly in the pressers last night for UConn to be in Lincoln, with Geno also giving any decision to put the Huskies in the Louisville region as only being possible from a selection committee who had spent the night in a drunken stupor. Beth and Steph were also bringing a lot of mention to the situation with the "as it stands now" comments about UConn possibly returning to YUM in a few weeks. So it appears that there are some vocal spokespeople working hard for bringing CT tourists to Nebraska. Possibly this might help cajole the committee into making a definite statement about the rules before selection night comes around.
There has already been a lot of discussion about whether the women are following the same rules as the men (allowing for the 4 less teams), and whether it's S-curve or G-curve, and various sometimes murky rules governing how teams can be moved. It is interesting that in the men's rules the first conditional factor listed after the basic rules for placement is:
Now the American will have at most four teams and only two will be on the first four lines, but it seems like if you have two teams up at the top there would be extra incentive to send them to different regions. A later cited condition that two teams that have met three times during the season will not face each other until a regional final would only factor in for UConn and Louisville if the Cards had dropped down to a #4 or #5 seed. The mention of "Teams will remain in or as close to their areas of natural interest as possible" does not appear until far down on the list of placement factors.
Again, this is the 2013-14 men's rules and no separate rules for the women have been published, but the NCAA guidelines state that there are only "minor differences" for the men and women, the big one being the number of teams.
We'll see how things shake out.
There has already been a lot of discussion about whether the women are following the same rules as the men (allowing for the 4 less teams), and whether it's S-curve or G-curve, and various sometimes murky rules governing how teams can be moved. It is interesting that in the men's rules the first conditional factor listed after the basic rules for placement is:
Each of the first four teams selected from a conference shall be placed in different regions if they are seeded on the first four lines.
Now the American will have at most four teams and only two will be on the first four lines, but it seems like if you have two teams up at the top there would be extra incentive to send them to different regions. A later cited condition that two teams that have met three times during the season will not face each other until a regional final would only factor in for UConn and Louisville if the Cards had dropped down to a #4 or #5 seed. The mention of "Teams will remain in or as close to their areas of natural interest as possible" does not appear until far down on the list of placement factors.
Again, this is the 2013-14 men's rules and no separate rules for the women have been published, but the NCAA guidelines state that there are only "minor differences" for the men and women, the big one being the number of teams.
We'll see how things shake out.