>If seeds are changed to avoid a matchup, the first round pairings
>should be preserved if possible (i.e., if you swap the 3 and 4 seeds,
>you should also swap 5 and 6).
 
Actually, that's what LOOKED like had happened -- and I had guessed
that's what was done.  In fact, it was only a fortunate by-product
between what everyone who studied PWR THOUGHT would happen, and the
specific way the committee did it (i.e. using head-to-head PWC over the
overall wins).
 
> Once the four non-bye teams in each regional are determined,
>they are seeded relative to one another according to the pairwise
>comparisons; again, this may be changed to avoid conference matchups,
>as described previously.
>
>Reading Adam's article, I believe those were last year's rules.  Can
>someone tell us (or ask the appropriate people) what, if anything, is
>different this year?
 
Nothing that I know of.
 
AW
 
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