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Message: [QUOTE="joct, post: 207147, member: 2001"] I think that in making the bracket, the assigning the #1 seed in the whole tournament is to then put the overall #4 (of the #1s) in the bracket that is paired with it for the Final Four. Once you get past that, there are a million factors, in addition to this. That gets often overlooked is their policy of if at all possible, not having teams from the same conference playing until the final 8 (broken last year due to the high volume of Big East teams). Since many of the 1-4 seeds are from the same 4-5 conferences, this makes it tricky. Combined with the factor of giving preference to teams staying in their closest bracket, as much as possible, and suddenly having the top #1 playing the worst #2 goes out the window. After that, it becomes even more of a puzzle. When those all play out, you get things like the Ohio State bracket last year (noted above). [/QUOTE]