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Message: [QUOTE="cabbie191, post: 3086081, member: 417"] It's annual rite of spring to complain about seedings. And while I too sometimes shake my head at how a particular team is placed, I try to put the whole process into perspective. Personally, I despise the NCAA for a number of things: 1) taking no action against UNC for systemic cheating but punishing Wisconsin's football team because some of the kids got a price break on purchasing athletic shoes from a store in Madison (and we could all name many, many other incidents including those that involve UConn); 2) absolute inconsistency in enforcing rules governing whether or not transfers have to sit a year, and truly harming individual students in the process; 3) the general overall exploitation of students in major revenue generating sports that makes everyone wealthy except them; 4) name your own. The creation of the brackets is not one of the areas where I get worked up. It is a Herculean task for the selection committee. There are so many competing factors to balance - SOS, RPI, geographic balance, realities of fan attendance, etc. Not to mention figuring out which teams are the last in and those who are last out. Lord bless the selection committee for their efforts. The fact that they get so much right relative to what they get wrong is a pretty positive thing, I think. [/QUOTE]