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[QUOTE="Vowelguy, post: 2624312, member: 59"]
The requirement is for them to not meet before the regional semis.

Again the issue is do you keep more teams closer to home or impose the expense and lack of fans further away?

The ACC had a further challenge:  Lou & ND were #1 seeds and Miami & Syracuse were #8s,  They can't face each other in the 2nd round, so if the seeds are maintained they had to be placed in the other 2 regions.  Yes, you could move teams off their seed line, but then then you start to compromise the integrity and balance of the brackets.  And do you want to do that just to prevent a regional matchup that only happens if there are (highly unlikely) upsets?  The 4 ACC teams in the Albany region only meetup if we have sweet 16 matchups of #8 vs #5 or #3 vs #10.

In the 23 years since the tourney went to 64 teams (23 yrs x 4  regions = 92 regions):
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[*]There has never been a #5 vs #8 game
[*]#10 seed has made the sweet 16 three times.  I have not tracked down if they faced a 3 seed each time.  At most it has happened 3/92 times.  
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In other words, yes there are 4 conference teams in one region.  Their likelihood of facing each other is extremely low.

I don't think it's fair to penalize the committee for failing to prevent low probability events from having the chance to occur.
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