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Message: [QUOTE="Dugway, post: 5211641, member: 13446"] I was thinking about the difference between being a #1 seed and being a #2 seed. It never works out perfectly this way, but in theory if every one of these teams win all of their early games that they are supposed to, just by the pairings in the bracket, they would eventually face off against each other in the Elite 8. It would be the four separate #1's vs. the four separate #2’s assuming they win out the way the bracket suggests they should. So, in that particular game, in that Elite 8, what are the advantages of being the #1 vs. being the #2 seed? Here is the list that I initially came up with! [LIST] [*]The #1 gets to sit on the right side of the scorer’s table, whereas the #2 is saddled with having to sit on the left side of the scorer’s table. So, there is that huge advantage right from the start, correct! [*]Oh, the Locker Rooms! At the neutral court venue, the #1 seed gets to use Locker Room ‘A’. Just think about it; this potentially could be equivalent to how many extra points? [*]Hmmm …. still thinkin’, [/LIST] I guess that is about all of the advantages I was able to come up with. When it comes down to that Elite 8 game, there really is not all that many perks that the #1 would receive over the lowly #2. Am I wrong? So, the real advantage may not necessarily in the Elite 8 game itself, but it could be in the game just before that, the Sweet 16. One of these subject teams are (in theory) going to be paired against a #4 seed, while the other would (in theory) be against a #3 seed – that is just assuming that those who were supposed to have won, did in fact win. And I know that is not the way the real world works, but I put into my synopsis here the word ‘theory’ for a reason, please don’t bag. Alright, given that someone is going to be playing from the pool of three seeds while the other is going to be playing from the pool of four seeds, is there a significant drop-off in competition level between the 3-seed and a 4-seed? Well, I guess, yes, potential there is. Or at least something more significant of an advantage than, "which side of the court the ‘home team’ gets to sit when playing at a neutral venue." You have to win all of the games if you are going to be National Champions. But a difficult, down to the wire, drawn out battle in a team’s Sweet 16 game, has the potential to sap all of their energy during the follow up Elite 8 game. It is not like they have a week off to recuperate; the games are basically back-to-back. Ideally, you would want to handle that Sweet 16 game as if you are on cruise control, right? So, who are the pool of #3 seeds and who are the pool of #4’s? And #5's and #6's I guess might be considered as well. [/QUOTE]

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