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Springfield Regional

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BostonCollege1

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With UMass and AIC co-hosting the Springfield regional, what happens if AIC earns an auto-bid and UMass also makes the tournament? Are they both placed in Springfield? What would happen if they were both 4-seeds?
 
I believe the co-hosting piece is wrong. That might be listed somewhere but as far as I know UMass is the sole host.
 
Hosting rules are so dumb. If they picked the tourney today, BU and Maine would be forced to play in South Dakota and Missouri and North Dakota would be in Springfield all because UMass has to play in Springfield to avoid intra-league first round match ups. Makes zero sense to give concessions to a #4 seed but that’s how the committee works. Just another reason why this system is dumb
 
I know they move teams around in bands but have they ever moved a 12 with a 13? If there ever was a chance this would make perfect sense. UMass becomes a 3 seed and Michigan a 4 seed. Not only would it eliminate the previous problem, but it would also eliminate a 5 vs 12 matchup of Wisconsin and Michigan.
 
An even bigger problem could arise. What if Hockey East has 3 #1 seeds and 2 #4 seeds? Providence is currently a 3, UNH technically a 4 but out by autobids and Northeastern has creeped up to 19th.
 
If conference matchups are unavoidable due to other constraints they have had them in the first round, on rare occasions. I have to think that would still happen again if there was no reasonable way around it.
 
BC/HE said:
An even bigger problem could arise. What if Hockey East has 3 #1 seeds and 2 #4 seeds? Providence is currently a 3, UNH technically a 4 but out by autobids and Northeastern has creeped up to 19th.
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If a conference has 5 or more teams in NCAA tournament, the committee is under no obligation to avoid a potential 1st round conference matchup. The seedings and protecting bracket integrity would take precedence.
 
BC/HE said:
I know they move teams around in bands but have they ever moved a 12 with a 13? If there ever was a chance this would make perfect sense. UMass becomes a 3 seed and Michigan a 4 seed. Not only would it eliminate the previous problem, but it would also eliminate a 5 vs 12 matchup of Wisconsin and Michigan.
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The committee would not do that. However, in the event of a three-way tie they do have leeway in how they break the tie since this exact scenario happened in 2007 and the way the tie was broken made no sense. Maine, UMass and St Lawrence all tied for 11th. Standard procedure would have broken the tie
11 St Lawrence
12 UMass
13 Maine

However, the ties were broken so that St Lawrence and Maine were 3 seeds and UMass a 4 seed.

Looking at the most recent Pairwise, there is a three-way tie for 11th place - and it just so happens to involve UMass again.

The NCAA (to my knowledge) has never commented on, nor clarified, the procedure to break ties involving more than two teams.
 
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