We could see some chaos during the selection of teams and their seedings. As of right now, here are the projections. Seeded Teams 1.) West Virginia, Stanford, South Carolina, Florida State (ACC conference tournament champs) 2.) BYU, USC, Florida, Notre Dame (ACC regular season champs) 3.) Minnesota, Georgetown, North Carolina, UCONN 4.) UCLA, Clemson, Virginia, Duke Region #1 South Carolina Notre Dame Minnesota Clemson Region #2 Florida State Florida UCONN Duke Region #3 West Virginia USC Georgetown Virginia Region #4 Stanford BYU North Carolina UCLA *Auburn gets left unseeded for underachieving in the SEC tournament. **Arkansas gets the shaft for being Arkansas
Yup. Time to see if CP earned his money... err, rather, his hobby time... or if it's back to the drawing board.
Your region 4 would be the region of death, IMO--four outstanding teams. Region 2 looks less formidable; 1 and 3 pretty well balanced, IMO. We'll see.
I thought USC was going to get a #1 seed, but then they lost their last game against UCLA. It's hard getting a #1 seed when you lose your last game, unless you are South Carolina on this list. I would rather see USC get the #1 seed over FSU, but somehow I have a feeling the ACC team will get it here. Stanford already has a #1 seed locked up from the Pac 12. Will the ACC really get shut out from getting any of the #1 seeds?
Whenever Minnesota and a Dakota school qualify for the same Women's NCAA tourney, they nearly always play in the first round, so my money is on Minnesota vs. South Dakota State in round 1.
Off topic, but I hear UND (Fighting Hawks) are fixin' to leave the Big Sky. Not sure how soon that is to happen, but I think they intend to go Summit, with all the other Dakotas publics.
FSU's getting a #1 seed with an ARPI rank of #17 would be truly "unusual," to put it mildly. If any ACC team is to get a #1 seed, it is North Carolina. Remember, for NCAA purposes the ACC championship game was a tie. In the regular season ACC standings, the two teams ended up tied for 5th.
Agreed. I care way more about in/out than seeds. Seeds are a "first world" problem that only the Top 20 teams have to worry about... while the rest of us (75% of the field! PLUS the bubble teams out) just want to know about who's in or not in!