TV: ESPN
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Not related to UVa, but found this interesting:
While following seed order, one of the NCAA committee’s seeding principles is that teams are placed “as close to home as possible to maximize fan accessibility,” according to the NCAA website. The committee listed Princeton, another nearby program to the Huskies, as the 34 overall seed and Syracuse as 36.
“I just want the young people that’s in my locker room to have a fighting chance, and I am grateful to be in an NCAA tournament, from where we’ve come from, but I think that we’ve earned the right to go anywhere outside of a four-hour radius,” Legette-Jack said.
Apparently Cuse has played UConn in 5 out of 7 NCAAT appearances.
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I can’t find the WBB seed list, but if Syracuse was 36, that’s the last 9 seed. If we’re slotting in USC/VT, Princeton, VT/USC and Syracuse in sites at Columbia, Storrs, Austin and LA to face 8 seeds Clemson, Oregon, Iowa State and Oklahoma State. @haney does this remind you of an LSAT logic games question?
So if you slot USC first, you can’t/don’t want to put them in LA and they can’t face Oregon in Austin, so that leaves Columbia and Storrs. Columbia is closer. Princeton should get Storrs next, but they got LA. VT should get Austin and they did. Syracuse should then get LA. Neither Syracuse or Princeton played Oklahoma State or Iowa State this season so there shouldn’t be a conflict there. Clemson’s in Columbia, so neither VT nor Syracuse can go there, but that’s not an issue here.
Hmm…if you went VT first, they can’t play Clemson in Columbia, so they should get Storrs. Then Princeton would get Columbia, USC can’t be in Austin or LA, so have to bump Princeton from Columbia to Austin, then Syracuse would get LA.
I think the scenario with USC ahead of VT is more likely, but either way I’m not sure why Princeton got LA and Syracuse got Storrs, unless that report is wrong about the seed list and Syracuse was ahead of Princeton on the 9 line.
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The 1 seeds in WCBB are all so ridiculously head and shoulders above everyone else that the Syracuse complaints are meaningless. You get slotted on an 8/9 line, you aren’t making a sweet 16. Whether you get blown out by UConn or Texas or UCLA is a distinction without a difference, other than having the excuse to go to Los Angeles or Austin instead of Storrs for the weekend.
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Very true. And the 1s are so far ahead of even the 2s that it was better for us to be a 10 than a 9, at least if we got to the R32 game.
But maybe the bracketing rules used for the men don’t work as well for the women because they play the opening weekend at the home sites of the 1-4 seeds, so teams will end up playing at the geographically close OOC power more often than the men would with neutral sites.
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I agree. And it’s a little weak to complain about being outclassed, that’s just the game. Also, they got blasted by 2-seed Michigan on a neutral court in the regular season, so “fighting chance” might be overstating things, given that all the 1s and 2s would be double-digit favs.
Complaining that the regional bracketing principles are too constraining seems more defensible.
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3 of which have been on UConn’s home court. Which is wild.
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Dawn Staley is all class.
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I’m rooting for lower left quadrant here. I think this proves the Top 4 and everyone else theory on some level.
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We forced them to extend the y-axis downward! That’s a win.
Man, huge gap separating the top cluster
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I like the “if history tells us anything” line…history doesn’t have to say jack for you to know that those 5 teams are like a million points-per-possession better than everyone else left.
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Wow. Good for this kid
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Get that Intuit money, Kymora.
https://twitter.com/kymorajohnson_/status/2037718522214973899?s=46&t=vkjgQUekzGC7z44tIfnIRQ
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What’s going on with tonight’s game? TCU’s down to -7.5, I know it was -9.5 a couple days ago and I feel like it was 10 or 11 when the game was announced.
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Only 9 teams left alive, and we’re one of them. We’ve made the Nasty Nine
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Solid start
It didn’t go in but the elevator screen got me going.
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Lady Hoos up 21-17 at the end of the 1st. Mo doing Mo stuff 
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