{"id":92461,"date":"2019-03-24T10:01:52","date_gmt":"2019-03-24T15:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/?p=92461"},"modified":"2020-08-24T12:11:37","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T17:11:37","slug":"bracketology-extra-with-the-benefit-of-downtime-before-the-announcement-some-overanalyzing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/2019\/03\/24\/bracketology-extra-with-the-benefit-of-downtime-before-the-announcement-some-overanalyzing\/","title":{"rendered":"Bracketology Extra: With the benefit of downtime before the announcement, some overanalyzing"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2018113020-28-061809-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jayson Moy explores whether moving Ohio State to Allentown is something the NCAA committee might do (photo: Jim Rosvold).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After Saturday night&#8217;s games, I predicted this bracket for the NCAA tournament:<\/p>\n<p><b>West Regional (Fargo):<\/b><br \/>\n16 American International vs. 1 St. Cloud State<br \/>\n9 Ohio State vs. 8 Denver<\/p>\n<p><b>Midwest Regional (Allentown):<\/b><br \/>\n15 Bowling Green vs. 2 Minnesota Duluth<br \/>\n10 Arizona State vs. 7 Quinnipiac<\/p>\n<p><b>East Regional (Providence):<\/b><br \/>\n14 Providence vs. 3 Minnesota State<br \/>\n11 Cornell vs. 6 Northeastern<\/p>\n<p><b>Northeast Regional (Manchester):<\/b><br \/>\n13 Harvard vs. 4 Massachusetts<br \/>\n12 Notre Dame vs. 5 Clarkson<\/p>\n<p>Now that there is so much time until the actual bracket is announced, we start to do what we all do best &#8212; overanalyze our bracket prediction.<\/p>\n<p>This bracket is just too perfectly laid out. It makes perfect sense, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>So why don&#8217;t we overanalyze a little bit and think about some of the debates that may be happening among the committee members.<\/p>\n<h4>Ohio State<\/h4>\n<p>There can be a good debate made about moving Ohio State to Allentown for a number of reasons. Some say that a move by Ohio State to Allentown would help attendance since it is closer to the Ohio State campus than Fargo is and Arizona State would not be much help to the attendance in Allentown.<\/p>\n<p>There is some merit in this, as we can put the two Ohio teams in the same bracket &#8212; the bracket which is closest to Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>So swapping a 9 and a 10 might not be that much of a stretch.<\/p>\n<p>What else leads to this possible debate?<\/p>\n<p>How about the fact that Penn State is the host of the Allentown regional and perhaps, just perhaps, the NCAA wants a Big Ten school at a regional that the Big Ten hosts?<\/p>\n<p>If you look at it, Fargo has St. Cloud State and Denver. Providence has Cornell and Manchester has Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>So just perhaps this could be a factor.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I am overanalyzing with this point.<\/p>\n<h3>Massachusetts&#8217; regional<\/h3>\n<p>How about the fact that Massachusetts is closer to Providence than Manchester (86 vs. 111 miles)? So why does everyone assume that Massachusetts is going to Manchester?<\/p>\n<p>This all leads into the fact that Providence would be in Providence &#8212; it only makes sense &#8212; and if Massachusetts is in Providence, then Providence can&#8217;t play in Providence.<\/p>\n<p>OK, but what if that&#8217;s not a factor?<\/p>\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t having the following bracket be just as appealing as the other way around \u2014 with the exception of Providence not being in Providence?<\/p>\n<p><b>Northeast Regional (Manchester):<\/b><br \/>\n14 Providence vs. 3 Minnesota State<br \/>\n11 Cornell vs. 6 Northeastern<\/p>\n<p><b>East Regional (Providence):<\/b><br \/>\n13 Harvard vs. 4 Massachusetts<br \/>\n12 Notre Dame vs. 5 Clarkson<\/p>\n<h3>Swapping the 2 vs. 3 matchups in the East and Northeast<\/h3>\n<p>There is also some argument that Northeastern should be in Manchester rather than in Providence.<\/p>\n<p>So there could be debate that the bracket could look like this:<\/p>\n<p><b>East Regional (Providence):<\/b><br \/>\n14 Providence vs. 3 Minnesota State<br \/>\n12 Notre Dame vs. 5 Clarkson<\/p>\n<p><b>Northeast Regional (Manchester):<\/b><br \/>\n13 Harvard vs. 4 Massachusetts<br \/>\n11 Cornell vs. 6 Northeastern<\/p>\n<p>Does it make sense? I suppose it does, but what does it really gain you?<\/p>\n<p>Northeastern is just as close to Providence as it is Manchester (51 vs. 53 miles).<\/p>\n<p>So does it really make sense? Not to me. And don&#8217;t forget: Clarkson is closer to Manchester than Providence. Therefore a higher seed should have some priority, right?<\/p>\n<h3>In the end<\/h3>\n<p>You can think and think about it all you want, but I don&#8217;t see what we need to steer away from the perfect bracket integrity that we have at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>If the committee does go away from it, I can only really see the Ohio State and Arizona State swap being one that makes some sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that there is so much time until the actual bracket is announced, we start to do what we all do best &#8212; overanalyze our bracket prediction (photo: Jim Rosvold).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":92462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[947],"tags":[812],"coauthors":[869],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bracketology Extra: With the benefit of downtime before the announcement, some overanalyzing - 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