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Message: [QUOTE="UConnNick, post: 2077236, member: 1526"] Not only are the team matchups rigged, but the entire tournament is designed to favor the blue bloods, right down to the Final Four. Everything is based on seeding. I worked with a guy who played for Texas Southern in the mid 1990's. They were matched up with Duke in a first round game in Tampa. Duke was staying at a big, luxury hotel in downtown Tampa. As a 15 or 16 seed, TSU stayed at a Rodeway Inn. Even fans can be affected. At the 1983 Final Four which we attended, the hotel situation in Albuquerque was a complete disaster. The NCAA failed to figure out that Albuquerque didn't have enough hotel rooms for such an event. The lowest seeded team gets the worst hotel assignments, which that year was NC State. Some of their fans were forced to stay in Grants, NM, a hellhole which is nothing more than a gigantic truck stop on I-40, about 70 miles west of Albuquerque. They had to ride a bus an hour and a half in both directions to get to the games. All you needed to know about Albuquerque was the best hotel in town where UH was HQ'ed was at the airport. [/QUOTE]