[Viking_Guy]

MT--

More like Homeland Security than the other two, I think.  Because one of the first explanations they debuted was "security" of the players and teams - that any destination that involved multiple flights was inherently more risky to the teams involved because of the possibility of ...  well, they were never really clear on that.

You think it's bad in women's basketball, try some of the other sports, where seeding becomes a convenient fiction (see women's soccer, where somehow miraculously the California schools almost always end up playing each other before the Final Four - and, of course, up to a six-hour (I think) bus ride is much more secure than a plane flight).

VG

[Viking_Guy]

MT--

More like Homeland Security than the other two, I think.  Because one of the first explanations they debuted was "security" of the players and teams - that any destination that involved multiple flights was inherently more risky to the teams involved because of the possibility of ...  well, they were never really clear on that.

You think it's bad in women's basketball, try some of the other sports, where seeding becomes a convenient fiction (see women's soccer, where somehow miraculously the California schools almost always end up playing each other before the Final Four - and, of course, up to a six-hour (I think) bus ride is much more secure than a plane flight).

VG