(02-28-2018 08:22 AM)ghostofclt Wrote:  

(02-27-2018 03:48 PM)Tintin Wrote:  I’ll twke it a step further and get you a nickel that both Duke and Chapel Hill will play their first round games in Charlotte, but teams like Villanova and X will end up in Boise. Gonzaga will end up in Nashville playing Tennessee in the 2nd round.
Middle will go to San Diego

clt says they would let CHeat play at home if possible.

And further, they get higher seeds, even as "bubble teams." Thus, a just-in-by-the-skin-of-their-teeth (and shouldn't be in) Syracuse will get a 9 seed while a 30-4 team from non-power conference gets a 15 seed. This way, when Syracuse beats the 8 seed by 2 points and the NPC team loses to the 2 seed by 2 points, they'll talk about how Syracuse's inclusion was justified because they advanced past the first round and how the NPC is "only 1-4 in the tournament in the last four years." I.E., Syracuse gets to play and beat a team like Arizona State while MTSU will be squaring up with Villanova. They use the early seedings to advance the power schools and justify the BS.

Rinse and repeat.