Once again the NCAA Tournament Committee has stupidly assigned two pods out west in Spokane and San Diego. And once again there is a lack of western teams to makes up these seeds -- and even if they do they could be 4 seed level teams. They do this every year, and 4 and 5 seeds from the east or Mid america are shipped out west.
What does this mean? If you are a 4 seed your likely being shipped out west. So lets say for example Syracuse was a 4 seed, and Kentucky was a 3 seed, Kentucky would go to Buffalo before being shipped out west.
So the key to Buffalo is a 3 seed or above. With a 3 seed there are a few programs that could spoil it, but you would need 2 programs from the list below to be 1/2 seed teams. That would seem unlikely.
Villanova
UMass
UConn
Pitt