At 10:54 AM -0700 3/23/98, Charlie Shub wrote:
>I would really be interested in hearing if the committee considered this
>alternate scenario.
 
Yes they did! I asked Phil Buttafuoco, the NCAA man in charge of the entire
process, specifically this and he said:
 
>yes, we thought of changing some of the teams around but, after almost
>two hours of discussion, decided on the bracket that was announced.
 
 
So, Charlie, you know more than you think. The committee thought hard about
upsetting the "natural" regions to avoid inter-league matchups. In the end,
I think they thought the "numbers" created pretty darn good brackets, good
enough to keep.
 
Keith
 
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