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Message: [QUOTE="MD#12Fan, post: 4179647, member: 8636"] Regarding seeding, what is the precedent for a team's seeding when a key player is injured for a period of time and expecting to return before the tournament? Like with a lot of things, it comes down to fairness. Fairness to UConn that they are put in the appropriate seeding position. Appropriate to the other tournament teams, possibly having to face a lower seeded UConn team sooner than would be fair. Did it ever bug anyone that Serena Williams would come into a major tournament as a, say, 15 seed, because she had been inactive leading up to the tournament? Think about the upstart professional thrilled with the opportunity of competing in a major and having to face Serena in the first round. [/QUOTE]