Good thing I have this in my clip board...
3 flights.
And it's not even close. Two 600+ mile flights (Yale/OSU and Loyola/ND) and a 1600+ mile flight (Duke/Air Force).
Just seed the whole freaking field and flights be damned.
I did this, solely seeding the "unseeded" teams based on current RPI standings. Still 3 flights, but we avoid Cornell.
Hempstead, N.Y.
(1) BIG TEN/Penn State vs. METRO ATLANTIC/Marist-AMERICA EAST/Albany
(8) Yale vs. Ohio State
East Hartford, Conn.
(5) Virginia vs. BIG EAST/Villanova
(4) IVY/Penn vs. Cornell
Hempstead, N.Y.
(3) Maryland vs. SOUTHERN/Air Force
(6) Syracuse vs. COLONIAL/Towson
East Hartford, Conn.
(7) PATRIOT/Loyola vs. Notre Dame
(2) Duke vs. NORTHEAST/Hobart