Recent content by southie

It wasn't just P5. When UConn and Rutgers were both in the Big East, they met 3 teams in conference play and then were assigned the 1 & 2 seeds in the same East regional which UConn won. So, four times in one season. Then it happened again with Baylor and Texas A&M when both were in the Big...

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Not true at all. These "rules" were implemented as far back to at least 2016 if not earlier which was several years before any super-conferences (16+ member schools) formed.

The rules which have been in place like for 10 years?

Did anyone come across the actual committee final rankings of the teams before the procedural "bumps" ?

It is really tough to keep up with the frequent rule changes. To me, it seems like the women's bracketology rules eventually catch up to the men's bracketology rules, but it may take a year or two to adopt them. I thought the men's team had a rule which tried to keep the Top 16 teams in their...

I've posted this a few times, but women's volleyball and softball do NOT adjust the bracket to avoid intra-conference matchups except for the first two rounds; they seed teams 1-32 (not all 64) and let the chips fall where they may. And, fans and coaches complain that they'd like to adhere to...

Because they only move away from the S-curve when they need to; they did so for the 2-seeds to avoid intra-conference pairings among the 1-seeds and 2-seeds. But, if there's no reason to move away from the S-curve for the 3-seeds, then they shouldn't.

If upsets occur, yes. But, the original seeds prevent it. Tonight's seedings prove it.

Well, they couldn't place West Virginia and TCU in the same regional as both are Big 12 members. I think TCU was listed as the last of the 3-seeds behind Ohio State, Duke, and Louisville. On S-curve logic, South Carolina would draw the weakest of the 3-seeds which you definitely agree is TCU.

4 SEC teams (Texas, Kentucky, Alabama and Tennessee) in one Fort Worth regional seems like a committee failure. Other regionals where SEC teams landed: Sacramento II: South Carolina, Oklahoma, Georgia Sacramento I: LSU, Ole Miss Fort Worth I: Vanderbilt

Won't surprise me if Michigan State knocks out OU in Norman.

Heard something interesting in the men's bracket Selection Show which I had not heard before; the overall #5 seed cannot be paired with the overall #1 seed; that would imply it is regardless of those other intra-conference rules we've been discussing here for days. Don't believe I've heard...

When you played them is irrelevant today; but, you knew that and that's why you added that blurb.

The NCAA announced the 16 sub-regional host sites: The 16 teams that will host are, in alphabetical order: Duke, Iowa, Louisville, LSU, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio State, Oklahoma, South Carolina, TCU, Texas, UCLA, UConn, Vanderbilt and West Virginia...