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Message: [QUOTE="The CDR-Ret, post: 3682050, member: 10751"] There should be different weightings applied to top ten match-ups, 11-30, and 31-50. That would put pressure on scheduling the best teams early in the season for out of conference match-ups. I would also like to see a Christmas to New Years "bubble" tournament with the top sixteen teams in a double elimination - like the super-regionals and college world series combined in NCAA baseball. This might be the only time it would happen (a possible blessing for CoViD-19?!?) and if it is successful, might be a mainstay in sorting out the top tier teams in the field before conference action occurs..... The next year, a "play in" tournament could be held on the Thanksgiving weekend for the 13 - 20th ranked teams to play for the last 4 spots in the Christmas to New Years top sixteen tournament. Should any team decline to attend, the next best available team could replace them. This series of tournaments would provide early season evidence for Jeff Sagarin's statistical analysis program [more data leads to better analysis] to aid the NCAA in proper placement of teams into the brackets. It might be a good time for "the one who is not to be mentioned" to announce her joining the UCONN program when the match-ups are announced for the "bubble" tournament as well..... [/QUOTE]