Date sent:              Sun, 18 Mar 2001 18:03:51 -0600
From:                   "John T. Whelan" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:                NCAA Seedings

> On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Michael Neal wrote:
>
> > It looks like the primacy of avoiding intra-conference matchups is
> > done.  CC is in the North Dakota bracket.
>
> Now, what I don't understand is why CC was sent East instead of
> Wisconsin and Providence went West instead of SLU.  I guess the former
> can be attributed to attendance, but the latter clearly wasn't to
> avoid a second-round HE game, since one of those is possible anyway.

My take was that the NCAA has dropped regional affiliation not only for
the byes but for the seeding generally.  As far as I can tell, this
approach gives the closest approximation of the seedings that the NCAA
actually produced, with the only difference being an exchange of 5E
Wisconsin with 4W Minnesota.

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