PRINCIPLES AND PROCEDURES FOR ESTABLISHING THE BRACKET

Jayes23

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After 2002?

To recognize the demonstrated quality of such teams, </p></font><font face="Verdana,Verdana" size="2"><font face="Verdana,Verdana" size="2">the committee shall not place teams seeded on the first five lines at a potential "home-crowd disadvantage" in the first round.

After 2004?

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1. If possible, </p></font><font face="Verdana,Verdana" size="2"><font face="Verdana,Verdana" size="2">rematches of regular-season games should be avoided in the first and second rounds</font></font></font></font><font size="2">. </font>
 

o_riverdawg

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Jul 21, 2008
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and then think, "You know, that probably wasn't fair. We should change that rule." Same thing happened after we went undefeated on the road in 2004 and wound up getting a No. 2 seed. The next year, the RPI put much more weight on road victories. If that had been in place the previous year, our RPI would have been much stronger and we might have gotten a No. 1 seed.
 
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