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[QUOTE="Zarathustra, post: 4406834, member: 11285"]
I did not think .   64  X  2  =  128.  It is just one more round!  I think it only works , as many
have suggested, that the  " first" round is  in the form of a  " play in round "  where  both
teams in the initial round are fighting to  " get into" the regular  64 team brackets.    I
still would mourn the loss of the  WNIT.   Maybe teams losing in the FIRST  "play in round" could
authomaticly  became the WNIT field??.   Sure, it sounds like a "loser's bracket"  but that
is something like the current FIBA format  =  losing in your initial POOL does not eliminate a 
team from  moving on ( note, the  FIBA format for tie breakers is pretty complex , as is
their  ranking of teams prior to  FIBA  tournaments).  I believe the  FIBA  Women's
soccer  has a formula  for "seeding'  has a formula of looking back at the last  8 YEARS
of games to decide the seedings of the  pools.   That is complex! =  it includes consideration of the quality of
the past opponents,  the strength of the " region" ( Africa / Asia /  Europe / "Americas"
etc.   The strength of it is that the FIBA  world agrees to it and  ..  the cream rises to
the top when all is said and done.
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