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Message: [QUOTE="southie, post: 2623834, member: 2527"] Maybe Dawn just doesn't understand how seeding and the bracket works, and just likes to complain or herself speak (ever season). Back in 2016, Crème had South Carolina slated for the Lexington regional. But, it never made sense to me as to why the committee would place SC in Lexington, and send Kentucky elsewhere. Let's be honest, even though Rupp Arena is the home the men's team, and UK women play in Memorial Coliseum, that is clearly the city of the university as a whole. The only way the local fans were gonna turn out for a women's hoops regional was if Kentucky was one of the four teams placed there. So, Dawn can blame Notre Dame, but that committee's rationale was all about keeping Kentucky at home in Lexington. So, SC had to go elsewhere as two SEC teams weren't allowed to be in the same region. As for the 2017 bracket, how can any SC fan complain (today) about being sent to Stockton, CA when it resulted in a national championship? You can't claim that the end result would have been the same had you been sent closer to home; any single variable could have led to SC not being the national championship if the bracket was different. With this year's bracket, the committee gave Oregon preferential geographic treatment; no two ways about it. What the committee could have done was take the highest #2 seed (Baylor), and place them closest to home (Kansas City) or with the fourth-ranked #1 seed (Notre Dame). They did neither. That had a trickle down effect and impacted Louisville, Baylor, and South Carolina the most. [/QUOTE]

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