On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Derek Gordon wrote:
 
> Okay, am I going crazy?
>
> USA Today's web site has the brackets wrong I think.
>
> In the end if all top seeds advance, 1E should play 2E right?  USA Today
> has it 1E plays 1W in semifinals and 2E plays 2W is semifinals, setting
> up only a #1 vs #2 picture, rather than #1 vs #1.
 
Neither you nor USA Today are right, it appears, unless they have changed
things.
 
The brackets are typically set up so that the semifinals cross over. That
is: 1E plays 2W, and 1W plays 2E. (Assuming, of course, that the seeds hold.)
 
> Let me know...If MSU advances to the final four, they would play B.C if
> they advance right? AND B.U. would play North Dakota.
 
Yes and yes.
 
See you later,
John
 
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