Quinnipiac is IN

[twh2]

It's the NC$$, what can you do?!  They knew keeping all the east teams in the east and the west in the west would create sellouts, and anyone who has tried to get tickets to this weekend's event at the Centrum knows it's working.  Greedy Bastards:-(

[RichS]

9/11!

[jy3]

btw,
dont call Q an easy opponent until after around 730pm saturday ;-)
missed the game and the selection show (who gets espn news!!!) but DC is great down here!
lets go red!

[jtwcornell91]

Recent selections would seem to indicate that the NCAA has given up on avoiding second-round matchups (in fact the new travel rules say only first-round guidelines still apply), and at any rate, I don't think they've explicitly played with things to trade one intraconference matchup for another.

The thing that annoys me most about this year is that the committee demonstrated it has basically arbitrary power when it re-drew the brackets which were explicitly contained in the championships handbook, meaning that even the subset of the process which they spell out there is subject to change.  What was Keith saying about arbitrariness and subjectivity?