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Originally posted by Bart Tyson
If you were in the Big 12 area you might have a little different take on the Tourney seeding and where they have to play over the yrs. I might also add the Pac 10 get the short end of some of these seeding over the yrs.
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I would have had no problem with OSU being a #1. I'm certainly no Duke fan. But the fact remains that if you've been in the top 5 all year long, your chances are much better at getting a #1 seed.
The #1 seeds were chosen the very first thing, when the hardcore seeding began at 2:40pm. At that time, Duke still had not lost to Maryland. That game endedalmost any hour later. According to the Chairman, the seedings were complete by 4pm, at which time they started the bracket placements. The Big 12 game was over until later.
The Big 12 routinely gets good seeding. Look at Kansas and Texas this year. As for the PAC-10, they deserve the short end of the stick. Outside of Arizona and Stanford, the PAC-10 doesn't consistently placed teams in position to be high seeds.
[Edited by BktBallRef on Mar 15th, 2004 at 10:08 AM]