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Message: [QUOTE="Plebe, post: 3073218, member: 6927"] There is no rule per se about sending any team to the closest regional site. On geography the wording in the tournament manual is rather vague: "By order of the s-curve, the committee will assign each team to a regional and first-/second-round site [B]by taking into account distance from site, mode of transportation and accessibility by fans.[/B]" We have seen many times that this doesn't necessarily translate to the closest regional site. In 2014 UConn was the clear #1 overall seed, but they were sent to the Lincoln regional instead of Louisville or South Bend (presumably to allow Notre Dame and Louisville to have their "home-court" regionals). The infamous 2016 Lexington/South Dakota controversy was, according to the committee chair, decided by driving vs. flying distance: South Bend is less than 350 miles from Lexington, and Columbia SC isn't. [/QUOTE]