NCAA First Round Sites

by **sadderbudweiser** » Sat Mar 04, 2017 6:54 am

A little research plus a little guessing and you have at least some idea where SMU will end up.

For the purposes of this exercise I'll assume we'll end up a 5 or a 6 seed as those seem to be where we get mentioned most often these days. If by some chance we end up a four...no worries as 4's play the same place as 5's. If we end up a 7 or worse this has been a waste of time and good coffee.

Here is where fours and fives play:

Midwest Region: Milwaukee
West Region: Orlando
East Region: Orlando
South Region: Buffalo

Here is where sixes play:

MW Region: Sacramento
West: Milwaukee
East: Greenville
South: Salt Lake City

So, right off the bat you can see that if my guessing holds up there is a 50 percent chance we'll play in either Milwaukee or Orlando and only a 25 percent chance we'll play somewhere out west and only as a six seed.

If it gets any more complicated than this I'll ask the guy who wrote the AAC tie-breakers for help.

by **sadderbudweiser** » Sat Mar 04, 2017 7:07 am

Taking it a step further: According to Booking.com these are the percentages of hotel room availability for that weekend

Milwaukee: 73%
Orlando: 14%
Buffalo: 37%
Salt Lake: 65%

They don't have stats for Sacramento or Greenville....but if it's Greenville I'm thinking that bunking with the ECU pompom squad is our best bet.

by **RGV Pony** » Sat Mar 04, 2017 8:38 am

sadderbudweiser wrote:Taking it a step further: According to Booking.com these are the percentages of hotel room availability for that weekend

Milwaukee: 73%
Orlando: 14%
Buffalo: 37%
Salt Lake: 65%

They don't have stats for Sacramento or Greenville....but if it's Greenville I'm thinking that bunking with the ECU pompom squad is our best bet.

Wrong Greenville

by **mrydel** » Sat Mar 04, 2017 8:42 am

Surely not Greenville, MS. And yes I did call you surely.

by **PonyRef** » Sat Mar 04, 2017 9:11 am

What's the source of the predetermined site location by seeds? I always thought that is was part of process to deterimine locations by the top seed in each "pod"?

by **sadderbudweiser** » Sat Mar 04, 2017 9:34 am

RGV Pony wrote:
sadderbudweiser wrote:Taking it a step further: According to Booking.com these are the percentages of hotel room availability for that weekend

Milwaukee: 73%
Orlando: 14%
Buffalo: 37%
Salt Lake: 65%

They don't have stats for Sacramento or Greenville....but if it's Greenville I'm thinking that bunking with the ECU pompom squad is our best bet.

Wrong Greenville

Correct you are...sorry to lose the hotness of the ECU cheerleaders/pompom squad. NCAA really should do more homework .

Greenville SOUTH CAROLINA is at 59% availability.

by **sadderbudweiser** » Sat Mar 04, 2017 9:36 am

mrydel wrote:Surely not Greenville, MS. And yes I did call you surely.

Greenville, Tx would be nice. Ummmmmm...Baker's brisket!

by **mrydel** » Sat Mar 04, 2017 9:38 am

I lived in Greenville , TX. Really do not want to spend a lot of time there again. Bad memories.

by **RGV Pony** » Sat Mar 04, 2017 9:48 am

sadderbudweiser wrote:
RGV Pony wrote:
sadderbudweiser wrote:Taking it a step further: According to Booking.com these are the percentages of hotel room availability for that weekend

Milwaukee: 73%
Orlando: 14%
Buffalo: 37%
Salt Lake: 65%

They don't have stats for Sacramento or Greenville....but if it's Greenville I'm thinking that bunking with the ECU pompom squad is our best bet.

Wrong Greenville

Correct you are...sorry to lose the hotness of the ECU cheerleaders/pompom squad. NCAA really should do more homework .

Greenville SOUTH CAROLINA is at 59% availability.

I guess after potty gate costing Greensboro they went for a city that sounded the same so they could make it less obvious?

by **Dukie** » Sat Mar 04, 2017 11:24 am

sadderbudweiser wrote:A little research plus a little guessing and you have at least some idea where SMU will end up.

For the purposes of this exercise I'll assume we'll end up a 5 or a 6 seed as those seem to be where we get mentioned most often these days. If by some chance we end up a four...no worries as 4's play the same place as 5's. If we end up a 7 or worse this has been a waste of time and good coffee.

Here is where fours and fives play:

Midwest Region: Milwaukee
West Region: Orlando
East Region: Orlando
South Region: Buffalo

Here is where sixes play:

MW Region: Sacramento
West: Milwaukee
East: Greenville
South: Salt Lake City

So, right off the bat you can see that if my guessing holds up there is a 50 percent chance we'll play in either Milwaukee or Orlando and only a 25 percent chance we'll play somewhere out west and only as a six seed.

If it gets any more complicated than this I'll ask the guy who wrote the AAC tie-breakers for help.

This is interesting, I didn't know they had switched to preassigning the sites based on generic seed numbers without yet knowing which schools will actually occupy what seeds. This seems much less sensible than the prior system of trying to place teams seeded 1-4 in each region as close as possible to their home base.

by **skyscraper** » Sat Mar 04, 2017 12:09 pm

Respectfully, there's no proof for this seeding assignments you've posted. It's no different than the conjecture of bracketology.

by **sadderbudweiser** » Sat Mar 04, 2017 1:17 pm

skyscraper wrote:Respectfully, there's no proof for this seeding assignments you've posted. It's no different than the conjecture of bracketology.

Like I said..... guessing.

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