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Message: [QUOTE="Alydar, post: 3862336, member: 730"] I should amend my statement to say in years when Stanford was a 1 or 2 seed, which is still a lot of years. And in most of those years they were the only western team in the top 8. They were virtually guaranteed playing in the west region against the weakest one or two seed simply because the other 3 teams were all a long way from the west site and it was always left to the 4th one seed. If Stanford was a 2 seed they got the worst 1 seed for the above reason. Now just because they were the worst seed doesn't mean they are in fact the worst, but it's more likely than not. As for the arena, let's say it was S Carolina vs any likely west coast team, like UCLA. It's got to be a thousand miles or more from LA to Portland, but I'll wager on the crowd being heavily for the women from LaLa land. UConn has made it's own edge with their popularity. It makes hosting a regional within driving distance of Storrs very profitable compared to other sites and that is a huge help in a bidding environment. But that wouldn't mean diddly unless UConn earned their seeding. [/QUOTE]