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Post by knicksaint on Mar 6, 2020 10:37:36 GMT -5
Lunardi still has Siena playing Prairie View in Dayton for the right to face Gonzaga in Spokane. His latest projection for Albany is (6)Iowa vs. (11)Northern Iowa and (3)Villanova vs. (14)Hofstra in one region and (7)Virginia vs. (10)Stanford and (2)Seton Hall vs. (15)North Dakota St. in the other. If we could just flip Rutgers for Stanford, it would be an ideal line-up of games from my perspective. I agree KS...............although there might be some "rule" or scenario that the committee does not want teams that faced each other during the season to match up at least in the first/second rounds, they could eventually meet should it be later in the brackets though (and sometimes can't be helped when you get multi teams from a conference).....Seton Hall played & lost already at Rutgers earlier this year by 20pts................Iowa had played N Iowa in the past but not this yr so that would be an interesting match up for sure............ Lunardi's bracket includes a possible Round of 32 matchup between Michigan State and Indiana, so I am confident there is no prohibition against a potential second round pairing of teams that played each other during the regular season.
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Post by $cott on Mar 6, 2020 10:48:55 GMT -5
I agree KS...............although there might be some "rule" or scenario that the committee does not want teams that faced each other during the season to match up at least in the first/second rounds, they could eventually meet should it be later in the brackets though (and sometimes can't be helped when you get multi teams from a conference).....Seton Hall played & lost already at Rutgers earlier this year by 20pts................Iowa had played N Iowa in the past but not this yr so that would be an interesting match up for sure............ Lunardi's bracket includes a possible Round of 32 matchup between Michigan State and Indiana, so I am confident there is no prohibition against a potential second round pairing of teams that played each other during the regular season. They attempt to avoid it when feasible but usually are a couple situations where they opt to keep the rematch rather than shift teams up or down a seed or ship them across the country. Before the pod system they were much more stringent about it. In a perfect world as long as a conference had 8 bids or less they could never meet until the Elite 8 and no conference opponents would ever meet before the Sweet 16.
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Post by greengold4ever on Mar 6, 2020 11:02:44 GMT -5
I agree KS...............although there might be some "rule" or scenario that the committee does not want teams that faced each other during the season to match up at least in the first/second rounds, they could eventually meet should it be later in the brackets though (and sometimes can't be helped when you get multi teams from a conference).....Seton Hall played & lost already at Rutgers earlier this year by 20pts................Iowa had played N Iowa in the past but not this yr so that would be an interesting match up for sure............ Lunardi's bracket includes a possible Round of 32 matchup between Michigan State and Indiana, so I am confident there is no prohibition against a potential second round pairing of teams that played each other during the regular season. and this year that is more problematic because it seems very likely that 10 teams from the Big10 are gonna get invited, so potential matchups are possible at least after the first game......................
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