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Message: [QUOTE="auror, post: 4563770, member: 1329"] I haven't done out the permutations for everybody, but they'd both take Des Moines or Columbus, OH over Albany. So our closest competition for the location have it as their 3rd choice. Each site takes 2 pods. I guess let's go through it. Kansas wants Des Moines. Lunardi has Houston in Columbus, but I think and Palm has them going to Birmingham. Alabama - Birmingham. (Birmingham now closed.) UCLA - Sacramento. Purdue - Columbus. (If Houston goes Columbus, it'd be closed, but we'll keep it open). Arizona - Sacramento. (Sacramento closed.) Texas - Denver, Would probably go Birmingham if available. Baylor - Denver (Denver closed). Marquette - Des Moines. (Des Moines closed.) Kansas St . Two closest spots closed - Columbus. (Columbus closed). K St. would go to Denver if Texas didn't, so the loop closes and it's fine for our circumstances). So at this point it seems very likely that Birmingham, Columbus, Sacramento, Denver, and Des Moines will all be closed by the time we get to "our range". Albany and Greensboro have nobody there yet. Gonzaga - Four closest spots all closed - Albany. Tennessee - Greensboro. UConn - Albany. Albany closed. So yeah. It looks like by mid 3-seed that Des Moines and Columbus will likely close. Greensboro is actually a couple hundred miles closer to both Indiana and Xavier than Albany, though. And it seems equally not in demand until the Midwest locations close. I think it's strongly likely we get Albany. I think we'd have to fall behind two of Indiana, Xavier, or VIrginia (and stay behind Gonzaga) to not get Albany. And as Nick mentioned, if we fall to a 5, we get Albany once again. So the literal only circumstance (barring abject craziness and everyone being way off the comittee) where we don't get Albany is if we are the #4 4-seed. For that to happen, we probably have to lose to Providence and the other teams make runs. So I'm just going to say. If we beat Providence, we'll be in Albany. [/QUOTE]

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