It is a fact that the top seed gets place in a region closer to home. That is their reward for being the best team. Should Illinois finish strong, they will be the top seed. If they are, they will stay close to home. That has always been the NCAA system.
I am not claiming to have the whole bracket mapped out. As TigerWins has stated, the top seeds get first dibs closer to home.
Not all the time. I can remeber back when Zona got screwed in 2000. They were number 1 and went to Utah i believe. When they had a regional in Tuscon.
That was 2000, since 9/11 they tend to put teams closer to home if they can. And yes anything COULD happen, but the NORM is to have them close to home. A reward for being a top seed I suppose. But just as in the BCS, god only knows what the NCAA can do next to $crew teams.....
The NCAA doesn't allow teams to play on their home court. That's way Arizona was shipped out to Utah, the next closet loaction.
I'll still take the ACC over anyone this year. The Big East is solid no doubt, but the Big Wast is definately solid. If you look at the conferences, the ACC has 3 teams in the Top 10, Big East has 2, and they both barely in it. the Best team, Boston College is overrated by a land-slide. If you match up the conferences 1-1, you get Wake vs. BC= Wake UNC vs. Syracuse= UNC Duke vs. Pitt= Duke Maryland vs. Uconn= Uconn Miami vs. Georgetown= Georgetown Va Tech vs. ND= ND GT vs. Nova= GT NC St. vs. WVU= WVU only if they hot Virginia vs. Seton Hall= Virginia FSU vs. Rutgers= ? tossup b/c they both play well at home: so it is really REALLY close... it is down to the wire actually: I think the top ACC teams are much better, but i think the middle 3-6 teams in the East are also much better:
i'm gonna agree with you cgis, the acc really looks better overall this year, but that might not mean much come tournament time, since a big east team has won it all the last 2 years...but i think nova would beat gt, since nova whooped on Kansas
