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Message: [QUOTE="jncuse, post: 207158, member: 1969"] They supposedly follow the S-Curve but remember the top three teams from each conference have to be in a different region. And sometimes I understand they try to avoid rematches in the top 4 seed lines (1-2, 1-4, and 2-3), but that is not a hard rule by any means. And they also try to keep teams in regions. All fingers point to Duke or UNC as the 2 in the East. At the end of the day, the top 4 seeds end up being whatever fits (especially if they try to avoid rematches), rather then putting the worst 2 and the worst 4 seed with the #1 overall. The worst 4 seed I can remember was Purdue in 2010. They were brutal after Hummel was injured, but they had earned that 4 seed based on their entire season - but everyone expected them to get throttled early. Given that Kansas was the clear number one, it was only fair to put Purdue in their region. Nope, they gave Purdue to Duke -- surprise, surprise. [/QUOTE]