(02-11-2018 04:56 PM)AllTideUp Wrote: USA Today reports
Here are the top 4 seeds for each regional:
Quote:South
No. 1 Virginia (1)
No. 2 Cincinnati (8)
No. 3 Michigan State (11)
No. 4 Tennessee (13)
East
No. 1 Villanova (2)
No. 2 Duke (7)
No. 3 Texas Tech (10)
No. 4 Ohio State (14)
West
No. 1 Purdue (4)
No. 2 Kansas (6)
No. 3 North Carolina (12)
No. 5 Arizona (15)
Midwest
No. 1 Xavier (3)
No. 2 Auburn (5)
No. 3 Clemson (9)
No. 4 Oklahoma (16)
Part of this is fun because we can maybe project where some of these teams might be playing. I'm too lazy to look that information up, of course.
Other than that, we've got 2 SEC teams with high seeds and neither of them are named Kentucky. It's an interesting day indeed.
As far as where the games may be played, the South regional is in Atlanta, so that would certainly be an ideal landing spot for Auburn or Tennessee, or Kentucky or Florida or any other SEC team for that matter. East regional is in Boston, West is in Los Angeles, and Midwest is in Omaha (interesting choice).
The eight subregional "pod" sites this year are as follows: Pittsburgh, Nashville, Charlotte, Boise, San Diego, Dallas, Detroit, and Wichita. Nashville is looking mighty good for Auburn and Tennessee, but with four ACC teams in the top 16, and Nashville being the second closest location to ACC country behind Charlotte, the competition will be stiff for the Nashville pod. As of this very ranking, Auburn would get a Nashville slot, with UNC likely getting slotted there too, UVa and Duke in Charlotte, and Clemson and Tennessee may have hopes for Dallas in that case, but with Texas Tech ranked ahead of them, only one at most would get Dallas, and one of them could be shipped out west to Boise or San Diego. The rankings within the rankings are very interesting, and it is a true chess match seeing who goes where when so many top-ranked teams are within a fairly small geographical footprint (Purdue, MSU, OSU, UC, XU all within a small radius, same for the SEC/ACC teams, and not to mention KU, OU and TTU near one another with Arizona not terribly far away from them).
Of course, this is all fun right now, because so much can, and will, change in the next few weeks as we head towards March. Gonna be fun!