George wrote, in part.. >That said, you don't think that the third ranked HE team will get shipped >west, regardless of ranking, in order to avoid the conference matchup? Seeding is certainly a gray area in which the committee often gets "creative" and I don't pretend to have any special knowledge about it. That said, the committee worries first about 1st round matchups, and those seem easy to avoid ... most scenarios I ran had either no special handling or just very minor adjustment. I *like* that they tend to send the two (or more) lower teams to the other region, and ME & PC will be higher ranked in the East. Note that my prognostication had 7 West and 5 East teams, so it's unlikely for more than 2 East teams to be sent West, IMHO. Guess we'll see! Thanks for the reply, wayne