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Message: [QUOTE="Niastri, post: 684757, member: 722"] I like these brackets... As with the Big East Tournament, it should be set up in such a way as to maximize tournament bids. Any given year, the ACC will have a number of locks going into the tournament. In the ACC's best years, the best 9 teams will be locks, and 10, 11 and 12 will be bubble teams. This set up gives those bubble teams a much better chance of getting critical nuetral site wins prior to getting their shot at better teams as play in games. If 5, 6, or 7 are locks, any of those seeds getting upset could earn the ACC an extra bid. Conversely, when the ACC is having a crappy year, the 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 teams could all be bubble teams (yes we are talking a very down year if the 5 seed isn't a lock, but it could happen). Thus these teams all get a chance to pad their win total against a lesser team with a shot at a ranked team as a play in game. No matter the quality, this bracket set up gives the teams with the most to gain a shot at getting quality wins and getting into the NCAA tournament. It also ensures that the stories for the Friday games are good. Talk of Cinderella for the low seeds who have gotten hot, or conversation about top teams battling so early. You could conceivably have top 10 teams playing against each on Friday night in the 5 vs 4 game, which would make for a hell of a night cap with two days left to play. You also have what will often be the number one team in the country playing its first tournament game against an 8/9 team that is desperate to get into the dance, when that lower team is still relatively fresh having played only one game. And the number 1 team will be rusty from not having played in a week. The games at MSG could be very exciting on those Fridays. I think all the games should be played in NYC, not in NC, but I am just a dumb Yank, so who cares what I think. [/QUOTE]

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