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Message: [QUOTE="UConNick, post: 4563283, member: 3806"] If we’re a 4 but behind both Xavier and Indiana on the s-curve, it’s possible they land in Albany and we get shipped to Orlando. But I’d hope we’re in front of both relatively comfortably at this point now that we seem to have righted the ship. If we’re a 5 we’re actually still very likely to get Albany because we’d likely be top 2 of the 5-line, and therefore have an “open selection” of the 4-seed sites, and by bracketing principles be allocated to the one that makes the most geographic sense (after accounting for conference mates, so we’d almost assuredly be paired with IU’s pod in Albany), even if it’s a different Regional (Vegas, KC, etc.) for the second weekend. Plus the other teams on the 5-line (Miami, SDSU, etc.) would probably be Orlando instead of Albany because of geography. This is why we were in Buffalo last year, giving Arkansas a theoretical “road game” had chalk held. We were 17 on the s-curve, a/k/a the highest 5-seed, so had a fully open slate of 4-seed slots to be placed in, and Buffalo was the most geographically advantageous of those 4-seed pods for us. I’d say we’re about 90% for Albany on the first weekend. And yes, I do love the “bracketing principles” and the whole process of building the bracket almost as much as watching the actual games lol [/QUOTE]