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[QUOTE="UConNick, post: 4908816, member: 3806"]
I think Tennessee would go to the South and UNC would go to the East. It literally comes down to how far the school is from the site lol.

Knoxville > Dallas: 843 miles
Knoxville > Boston: 920 miles
Chapel Hill > Dallas: 1,161 miles
Chapel Hill > Boston: 710 miles

The South being in Dallas instead of like Atlanta or somewhere in Florida is definitely playing a role.

There is SOME consideration given to where the teams might have a larger alumni base and be more familiar, but that’s more so for times like, say, UK is a one seed and picking between, idk, Philadelphia and New Orleans (they’d probably prefer New Orleans despite Philly being geographically closer). I don’t think Tennessee would have such a preference for Boston compared to Dallas to override the geography.

I don’t disagree it’s not straightforward to do it this way instead of the straight s-curve, but I like it. More quirky. More traditional to the roots of the tourney as a regional competition. So long as things don’t get too unbalanced, keep it going. This is a strange year for the format given the regional sites and the seemingly clean breaks between tiers of teams.
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