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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 3316628, member: 1969"]
It will be interesting to see how the committee splits them up accross the bracket especially since they will probably have 8 teams between the 3 and 7 seed lines.

With 11 teams, technically you can avoid intra-conference matchups until the round of 16.   Rules do permit conference mates to meet in the round of 32, as long as they only played once all year.  But despite that rule up to and including 2018 you can see in the brackets still had an unwritten policy that the committee tried their best to ensure conference mates did not meet until the elite 8..

Last year it was clear they abolished that unwritten policy and it became 100% about location , and there was much more opportunity for conference mates to meet in the round of 32 and the round of 16.  I suspect the same will happen this year.

While they could spread 10/11 teams accross regions, I suspect they will not and there will be multiple 3/6 and 4/5 BIG matchups in the second round.
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