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Message: [QUOTE="willtalk, post: 3106731, member: 1220"] There are always teams that get the short end of the stick. It could also be argued that Miss St shouldn't have been a one seed. I don't think fans screaming in the back ground is that much of home court advantage. What would be a home court advantage is playing in the same arena you always play in. It's 114 miles so it is not that close. It's probably takes less time by air. Bottom line they do move the venue year by year and attendance is certainly a factor. I don't know if having to come out West is considered getting the short end of the stick. They would have to travel any where except Greensboro. Does anyone think Miss St should have been ranked higher than Baylor? What about all the teams west of the Miss river. All the sites except Portland where on the eastern side. Why were they not getting the shaft having to travel east. As was mentioned Oregon beat Miss St head to head played in a tougher conference and very easily could have been named a one seed. If they had any complaint it would have been last year when they were sent to Columbus and louisville was in Lexington. Yet Miss St ended up in the Championship game with ND both of which were sent far from home in the regionals. The home crowd didn't seem to affect them much so why is it all of the sudden a major issue that Miss St loses to Oregon. ND got sent to Spokane Washington and they won it all. The fact that some teams are going to be sent far away every year is nothing new. How do you expect to have the committee to pick a so called neutral site that far in advance. They could pick one in Alaska. No matter where you chose it will always be closer to one team than the other. 114 miles away is not a home game. Why not just create a rule that no team can have more fans than their opposition at any of the playoff games?. The idea that fans won he game for Oregon is one poor excuse. [/QUOTE]

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