I thought someone addressed the seeding earlier in the thread. Wasn't there something about UCLA and AZ State not being in same region due to other rules the committee looks at regarding conferences. So ASU got a bump to prevent that from happening - I don't think there's any question we were technically ranked higher than ASU by the committee, but they had to shift things a bit due to other concerns. Sometimes those procedural issues even means changing a team's seed line altogether, though that usually doesn't happen with the highest seeds. I could really care less whether we make the Elite 8, or a FF - no doubt others feel differently, and another FF on the resume certainly looks good, but for me one is about the same as the other at this point. Both are improvements over last year, and would be a major accomplishment for this program. Of course so would winning a NC, but we may not be quite ready for that yet. Losing to UCONN in the Elite 8 or FF - not a big difference as far as I'm concerned. As I said earlier a lot of teams don't like the path the committee laid out for them. No doubt BU feels like they got screwed, potentially having to go through A&M, Louisville and UCONN - and that still wouldn't give them a championship! They'd have to win one more after running that gauntlet to take the title. And the commentators were going on for quite a while about how difficult the Lexington Regional, and ND's early matchups were when compared to the other #1 seeds. I'm happy with our seed and I'm ready to see us make the run of our lives!
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